By News Source Guyana on June 13, 2019
News
Drug Enforcement agents attached to the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit are now working out of a newly built headquarters, which is expected to assist the unit in the conduct of its work and investigations. Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan was at the Homestretch Avenue location this morning to open the new building and he promised […]
By News Source Guyana on June 13, 2019
News, Politics
As the State Assets Recovery Agency probes the handing out of oil blocks to companies just before the 2015 elections, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo today declared that he has no interest, financial or otherwise, in any of the oil companies. Responding to a direct question posed by News Source at his weekly press conference this […]
By News Source Guyana on June 13, 2019
News, Politics
Opposition Leader and General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party, Bharrat Jagdeo, today dismissed the findings of an APNU+AFC commissioned poll by the Barbados based CADRES Organisation. The Poll, which showed high approval ratings for President David Granger and low ratings for the PPP Presidential Candidate Irfaan Ali, was described by Jagdeo as nothing more […]
By News Source Guyana on June 13, 2019
Elections, News, Politics
While President David Granger is heavily favoured as the more popular candidate when compared to the PPP Civic’s Irfaan Ali, the opinion poll conducted by the Barbados based Caribbean Development Research Services (CADRES), has found that there is an even split among the population when it comes to the perception of which party will win […]
By News Source Guyana on June 13, 2019
News
The 53-year-old man who was badly injured when the Mayor’s official vehicle slammed into his parked car and two others, has succumbed to his injuries. The Buxton resident, who was identified as Mitford Cambridge, never regained consciousness after the Tuesday afternoon accident. Cambridge was sitting in his parked car just off the Rupert Craig Highway […]
By News Source Guyana on June 13, 2019
Crime, News
Investigators probing allegations of a possible US$1 million gold purchase by former Member of Parliament Charrandass Persaud, have hit a stumbling block as they cannot get Persaud to submit a statement. According to Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan, “Charrandass has since left and the investigators, I think, were supposed to ask him some questions but […]
By News Source Guyana on June 12, 2019
Elections, News, Politics
A political opinion poll conducted by the Barbados based Caribbean Development Research Services Inc. (CADRES) has found that President David Granger continues to enjoy high approval ratings among supporters of the coalition and generally across the country. The poll was commissioned by the APNU+AFC Coalition. News Source has obtained a copy of the full report […]
By News Source Guyana on June 12, 2019
Crime, News
A High Court Judge today ordered that a 22-year-old man undergoes a psychiatric evaluation following the man’s decision to plead guilty to a number of rape charges. The Judge wants the psychiatric report before the sentences are handed down. The young man, Leon Jordan, stood at the High Court this morning and admitted to the […]
By News Source Guyana on June 12, 2019
News
Guyana is stepping up its efforts to fight trafficking in persons and today the national plan of action for 2019/2020 was launched. With the launching, the plan of action has now become an official public document. According to the Acting Coordinator of the Ministerial Task Force on Trafficking in Persons, Oliver Profitt, explained that the […]
By News Source Guyana on June 12, 2019
Crime, News
In wake of reports that the telephone numbers for at least four Police Officers were found in the cellphone that was used by one of the Berbice Bandits who was recently killed by Police, Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan today declared that every complaint against the Police must be investigated. The Public Security Minister told […]