Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana News

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Guyana's minister of foreign affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett attended the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations ministerial meeting of the high level political forum on sustainable development at UN headquarters in New York on Monday.

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These properties lie within the regional Makapa-Issano belt which is part of a larger gold bearing system within the Guiana Shield that trends from Venezuela to French Guiana.

Guyana's Acting Minister of Foreign Minister Priya Manickchand and outgoing United States Ambassador to Guyana, Brent Hardt sharing a toast on the celebration of the 238th independence anniversary of the United States of America GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Outgoing US ambassador to Guyana, Brent Hardt was on Wednesday evening reminded that his attack on ... (more)

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Health Minister Dr Bheri Ramsaran on Tuesday disclosed that there are 12 more confirmed cases of the mosquito-borne disease, chikungunya in Guyana.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- A new air service commenced on Thursday, connecting Georgetown, Guyana, with New York, on a four times weekly, all year round basis.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- A United States Drug Enforcement Administration country office in Guyana has been given congressional approval.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- The new and improved visa application centre in Port of Spain, Trinidad, is now open and ready to accept applications for visas to Canada.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon, speaking at his weekly post-Cabinet press briefing on Thursday, said that for Guyana, a Financial Action Task Force compliant anti-money laundering legislation is essential in order for the country to escape the blacklisting trap in which it currently finds itself.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- CARIFESTA must be sustained despite current economic challenges.

A 37-year-old Connecticut man tried to smuggle nearly 5 pounds of cocaine in the handle rails of his bag on a flight from Georgetown, Guyana to John F. Kennedy International Airport, officials said.

A murder charge was yesterday read to Asaf Alli and Abdool Shazim Razack, the two persons accused of killing 17-year-old taxi-driver Dhanraj Latchman.

The investigation into the burning of Junior Thornton's hands while in custody at the Sparendaam Police Station last month is on pause as the police await a medical report from the Georgetown Public Hospital, while the teen who has since been discharged said he is living in fear.

A teenager on a Father's Day visit to honour his deceased dad died, along with his mother and four others, when a fast-moving fire ripped through a three-story, authorities and the boy's grandmother said.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Guyana's tourism minister Irfaan Ali and his counterpart Cecil McKie, minister of tourism of St Vincent and the Grenadines on Tuesday discussed formalising a joint initiative to market the two countries as a common tourism package.

The youth found with a fatal stab wound on Monday evening along the Ogle Access Road, East Coast Demerara, has been identified as 17-year-old Bhaker Azeez.