GRA steps up anti-smuggling campaign…items seized include foreign chicken, mosquito coils
Un-customed goods amounting to almost $20M in revenue have been seized in the month of January by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) as the...
4,000 acres of State lands to open up in Region 9 for agri development…Govt...
Government has announced that it intends to push agriculture development in the hinterland and intends to open up 4,000 acres of State lands in...
Cocaine found in baggage hold of Dynamic Int’l Airways after arriving at JFK
A package of cocaine was unearthed in the baggage hold of a Dynamic Airways Flight which left Guyana and arrived at the John F...
Miner nabbed with 2kg of marijuana
A miner is expected to face the Courts soon to answer to the charge of having narcotics in his possession after being caught with...
Drug shortages will continue despite $6.5B budgetary allocation – Dr. Anthony
Although $6.5B has been earmarked for the procurement of drugs under the public health sector in this year’s budget, it still would be insufficient...
Relatives of Curt Burke maintain he was murdered
Family members and relatives of the late Curt Burke whose dismembered body was found one week ago in bushes near the Yorkshire village, East...
PPP members who break the law must face consequences – Jagdeo
Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo has pronounced on the charges brought against his Member of Parliament (MP) and former Public Service Minister, Dr Jennifer Westford,...
PSC urges Govt to ‘seriously’ review ‘unnecessary’ ban on importation of used vehicles
The Private Sector Commission (PSC) views the move by the APNU+AFC government to implement a ban on importation of vehicles that are eight (8)...
Two Guyanese, one Brazilian arrested for stealing horses from Rupununi ranch
Two Guyanese and a Brazilian were caught with 15 horses that had been stolen from the ranch of a businessman at Manari, in Guyana’s...
Zika virus infection ‘through sex’ reported in U.S.
A rare case of the Zika virus being transmitted through sex, not a mosquito bite, has been reported in the United States, the BBC...