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The Guyana Elections Commission today confirmed that it will commence House-to-House Registration as planned from tomorrow, 20th July 2019. The Commission has also indicated that while the house-to-house registration is underway, other preparations for elections will be taking place. In a statement this afternoon, the Commission said the countrywide exercise is in keeping with a […]
As the government and the opposition continue to argue about whether there should be house-to-house registration before the next elections, the People’s National Congress which is the largest party in the coalition government believes the Opposition is afraid of a clean list. The PNC hosted its weekly press conference this morning at Congress Place and […]
As the Guyana Elections Commission prepares to begin house to house registration across the country tomorrow, the Opposition People’s Progressive Party staged a large picketing exercise this morning outside the GECOM headquarters calling for GECOM to halt house to house registration. The PPP believes that the Elections Commission should instead be getting itself ready for […]
Special Assistant at the State Asset Recovery Agency, Eric Phillips, has tendered his resignation from the body. The resignation will take effect in the month of August. The resignation comes in wake of revelations that Phillips served as a Director of the African Business Roundtable which has an affiliated company that applied for and […]
The meeting that was scheduled today between the Government and Opposition representatives looking at the possible candidates for the GECOM Chairman’s job was called off and is to be rescheduled. Director-General of the Ministry of the Presidency, Joe Harmon, told News Source that the President is still examining the four new names put forward by […]
The Cummings Lodge man, who two months ago admitted to stabbing his wife to death, was sentenced to 30 years in jail today. The convict, Seon Singh, had decided to enter a guilty plea to the unlawful killing of his wife Indranie Sugrim back in 2012. Appearing before Justice James Bovell-Drakes today for sentencing, the […]
More than a year after she was charged with the attempted murder of a Police Officer for allegedly pointing a gun at him and attempting to discharge it, Accountant Maryann Daby walked out of the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court a free woman this afternoon after the presiding Magistrate, Leron Daly, dismissed the case after finding that […]
Guyana’s Opposition Leader and former President, Bharrat Jagdeo, is upset that the regional body, CARICOM, has not been saying much publicly on the recent validation of the no-confidence motion against the Guyana Government by the Caribbean Court of Justice. Mr. Jagdeo used his Thursday afternoon press conference to express his “disappointment” in CARICOM offering only […]
The Exxon company today announced that its oil production vessel, the Liza Destiny, has departed Singapore for Guyana. It is expected to arrive in Guyana in September as the country gets set for first oil early next year. The vessel was commissioned by First Lady Sandra Granger last month in Singapore. When it arrives in […]
32-year-old mechanic, Devon Atkinson, who is known as “Wild Buck”, was remanded to jail today after being charged for possession of an unlicensed firearm. Atkinson was nabbed by the Police with the unlicensed gun after firing several shots in the air at a highway creek resort this past weekend. He appeared before Principal Magistrate Judy […]
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