Chicken smugglers ordered to pay $5.7M or face jail time

Three men who were charged last year with the smuggling of foreign chicken have been found guilty of the crime and ordered to pay $5.7 million to the Guyana Revenue Authority or face one year in prison. The Magistrate at the Sparendaam Court handed down the decision yesterday and gave the convicts one week to […]

LJP says Shuman asked to provide information on citizenship to GECOM

The Liberty and Justice Party (LJP) has branded as “fake news,” recent statements from GECOM Commissioners that its presidential candidate, Lenox Shuman has been barred from running in the upcoming general and regional elections because of his dual citizenship status.  Shuman is a Guyanese-Canadian who has since confirmed that he has filed to relinquish his […]

GECOM blasts those seeking to disenfranchise electors who participated in H2H process

In a strongly-worded statement this afternoon, The Guyana Elections Commission said it is perturbed by recent attempts to discredit its work. GECOM said it is cognizant of the efforts by some whose “sole intention is to disenfranchise thousands of eligible electors who participated in the house-to-house registration exercise. This will not happen”. The Opposition Leader […]

Leopold St. woman dies one month after stabbing

A Leopold Street family is seeking justice following the death of a 31-year-old woman. The dead woman, 31-year-old Latoya Haywood, passed away this morning after spending the past four weeks in an unconscious state in a city hospital. She was stabbed to the chest in the region of her heart back by another woman during […]

CitiBank exploring possibility of setting up Guyana operations

American multinational investment bank, CitiBank is looking at the possibility of entering the Guyana market and setting up operations here. Over the past two days, a team from the bank’s headquarters in New York has been meeting with Government and Private Sector officials in Guyana as part of an exploratory and fact-finding mission. The officials […]

EU Elections Observer Mission to arrive Friday

The European Union has accepted an invitation by President David Granger for an Election Observer Mission to be sent to Guyana to observe the upcoming elections. The core team of eight elections analysts is expected to arrive on Friday and will be joined by other observers from the EU in February. They will remain in […]