No record of “official departure” for thousands of Cubans and Haitians who came to Guyana in last five years

Over 17,000 Cubans and 5000 Haitians who entered Guyana between 2013 and April 2018 are unaccounted for, according to an official correspondence from Minister of Citizenship Winston Felix. The revelation has prompted the Parliamentary Opposition to call on the Government to launch a serious investigation into the possibility of human trafficking. Felix wrote the Parliamentary […]

18 months in Jail for APNU+AFC Region Five Councillor convicted of wounding plantain chip vendor

APNU+AFC Region Five Councillor, Abel Seetaram will be spending the next eighteen months in jail after being found guilty of felonious wounding. The 36-year-old man was handcuffed and handed over to Prison authorities this afternoon in Berbice after the Magistrate handed down the sentence. The sentence came following a probation report. His Attorney was hoping […]

Father and son remanded to jail over murder of Stabroek vendor

Just days before Father’s Day, a father and his son found themselves before the Chief Magistrate facing a murder charge. The two will now spend Father’s Day in jail.  54-year-old, James McKenzie and his 21-year-old son, Timothy McKenzie, who both worked as bus conductors, stood before Chief Magistrate, Ann McLennan this afternoon and were not […]

Route 42 bus drivers seek fare increase and addition of new route

Mini-bus drivers who work the Georgetown-Timehri route staged a picketing exercise this morning outside the Public Infrastructure Ministry. The drivers complained to News Source that while they have not increased their fares in more than ten years, just about everything else for the operation of their mini-buses have seen increases. “All we asking for is […]

PPP nominated GECOM Commissioners not happy with Commission’s decision not to rehire Vishnu Persaud as Deputy Chief Elections Officer

The Commissioners at the Guyana Elections Commission who were nominated for that position by the People’s Progressive Party called an “emergency” press conference this afternoon to register their disappointment with the decision by the Elections Commission to not have former Deputy Chief Elections Officer, Vishnu Persaud, return to that post. The Commission this afternoon voted […]