Guyana Times

Two days after Tactical Services Unit (TSU) rank Akeem Hyles went missing in the Potaro River, Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni) after the boat he was travelling in capsized, his body is yet to be recovered. Special Constable 14536 Hyles, 22, of New Amsterdam, Berbice, was in a boat with several other persons when the vessel capsized sometime around noon on...

Residents of Lancaster, Mahaica, Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica), especially in the Riverview and Mosquito Hall areas, are complaining bitterly over being forced to use poor quality water for over a month now. They are calling on the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) to stage an intervention to rectify the issue. Guyana Times received information stating that the water coming through the...

By Ryhaan Shah “I believe God brought that man to be President… I believe that God made him President for such a time as this.” Most of us reading those lines uttered by Minister Raphael Trotman in Bartica during the APNU/AFC’s LGE campaign might be moved to laughter at the preposterous idea of a divinely elected President governing any country in...

…tells Magistrate “de weed weight wrong”   A man, who has been jailed for three years for trafficking in narcotics, had objected to the amount of cannabis sativa he was accused of having. Victor Kipping of Trafalgar Village, West Coast Berbice, told Magistrate Rhondell Weaver at the Fort Wellington Magistrate’s Court, that he was guilty of the offence but with...

Dear Editor, I refer to Nigel Hinds letter in Guyana Times (Thursday, April 7, 2016) Titled “Vendetta against the head of the Presidential Secretariat/Minister of State!” I am in agreement with his letter but unfortunately it failed to include the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) and its Commissioner James Singh as being also victims of a dirty Vendetta campaign by WPA’s...

Satiricus came from a farm. And like they say, you can take the boy from the farm, but you can’t take the farm from the boy. So when Satiricus heard Nagga Man was helping rice farmers, he was mighty pleased. Even though Nagga Man was from fishing stock (which is different from “fish stock”), he was a fella...

Police youth clubs from across the country assembled at the Police Sports Club ground, Eve Leary, Georgetown, on Saturday for what will now become the annual A Division (Georgetown-East Bank Demerara) career fair. The inaugural fair was an all day event, held under the theme “Transforming the Mind, Developing the Nation through Motivation and Inspiration”. It kicked off with...

...on young Guyanese achievements Your Eyewitness was tickled pink (figuratively, of course because he's too pigmentally challenged to achieve that effect!) when he read about 17-year-old Kelly Hyles being accepted to every one of the eight Ivy League schools in the US! He'd only just come off the high of West Indians copping all three of the ICC's T-20...

Following the successful staging of a cycle road race on the Corentyne highway two Sundays ago, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and the Flying Ace Cycle Club (FACC) will collaborate once again today to stage a 28-mile race in Berbice. The event, which is for cyclist of the FACC, is set to pedal off at 09:00h from Tacama Turn,...

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo’s Office has noted with concern that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has remained silent in the face of the imbroglio which has engulfed six local authority organs that have been unable to lawfully elect their Mayor, Deputy Mayor, Chairpersons and Deputies because of an equality of seats on those organs allocated to the People’s...