Guyana Times

Police in G Division (Essequibo Islands-Coast) are currently investigating the origin of a fire which engulfed a house in the Karawab Amerindian Community in Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam). According to reports, the residence, which is owned by 22-year-old Collen Richard, went up in flames after he and his wife had a heated argument. Guyana Times understands that the argument started after...

Former Education Minister Priya Manickchand has blasted Government, particularly the Education Ministry, for failing to disclose the changes that will be made to the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA). With just three weeks to go before the sitting of the NGSA, the Education Ministry has not yet made any disclosure of changes that will be made to the examination. Education...

The former overseer of the Number 52-74 Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) has been elected chairman for the area, which is the country’s largest NDC. On Friday, a new 18-member council was sworn-in to run the affairs of the NDC. After taking their Oath of Office, a new Chairman and Vice Chairman were elected. Davanand Chaitram, 56, a retired overseer, was...

Former President and Leader of the Opposition, Bharrat Jagdeo has extended “heartfelt” congratulations to the victorious West Indies men and women’s teams for winning the just-concluded 2016 International Cricket Council (ICC) T20 World Cup Tournaments. On Monday, Jagdeo in a statement said that the ultimate success of teams, including the February victory of the West Indies Under-19 Team, will inspire...

Dear Editor,  For quite some time now, corruption has been one of the main topics that the media, those hostile to the PPP/C, have been plugging. We have put forward the argument before that while there is no denying that corruption existed during the PPP/C administration, it has been highly exaggerated. The corruption ‘promotion’ and the distortion and lies...

Dear Editor, The APNU-AFC coalition celebrates Guyana’s 50th anniversary since attaining political independence. The coalition announced that it plans to honour (with national awards) individuals and organisations that played a significant role in the struggle for our freedom and/or contributed to national development (only a few independence freedom fighters are still around). The government can look to the model used...

Coldingen Railway murder   – claims he was a nuisance – “clothes line” led Police to admission   The biological and adopted daughters of 64-year-old Roger Manikam of Section ‘B’, Nonpareil, East Coast Demerara, whose gagged body was found along the Coldingen Railway Embankment have confessed to murdering their father because he was a “nuisance” to them. A third person, a clerk attached to...

Panamanian specialist law firm Mossack Fonseca, the world’s 4th largest provider of offshore services, was on Sunday rocked by what it alleges to be a “hack” that leaked 2.6 Terabytes of data of its confidential documents to the Panama Metropolitan Paper and other news entities. The leak has since revealed damning information of Heads of States, the elites, business moguls...

...WICB’s Cameron The Americans call it having “brass balls”; the Jews call it “chutzpah” but we in Guyana follow the stiff upper British lip tradition and call it “having no shame”. Like in “Yuh na gat no shame man??” By this time, dear reader, you should know we’re talking about Dave Cameron, President of the WICB cause you’ve seen...

Caledonia Cruise liner docked in Guyana’s waters on Monday for a short visit, signalling Guyana’s growing tourism potential. The 100-passenger MS Serenissima is one of the ships operating under the Nobel Caledonia Cruise Company. The ship is docked at the Guyana National Shipping Corporation’s (GNSC) wharf for just under 24 hours, and according to cruise director Neil Horrocks, the...