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With Local Government Elections due in November this year, the Alliance for Change (AFC) has confirmed that it will contest the elections as a coalition with A Partnership for National Unity (APNU). The AFC had indicated earlier this year that it was considering whether it should contest the local elections by itself. However, after discussions at […]
Guyana remains a welcoming place for investors but many of the potential large investors remain concerned about infrastructure and high electricity rates. During an interview on the Jumpstart morning radio show last Wednesday, US Ambassador to Guyana, Perry Holloway said the recent announcement by American Airlines that it will begin service to Guyana this year […]
At the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court today, 33-year-old Mark Gomes, 33-year-old Ryan Fowler and 38-year-old Muhammed Kadir were all charged over last Thursday’s drug bust on Sherriff Street. Gomes and Kadir were remanded to jail while Fowler was sentenced to four years in jail after he entered a guilty plea. The three men were busted with […]
Days after officially filing Guyana application to the International Court for a final settlement of the border controversy with Venezuela, Guyana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs has declared it a great moment for the rule of law. In his first official statement on the move, Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge said “now that the Application is before […]
From as early as December last year, travel agent Reona Payne had started to complain to friends that her reputed husband, GDF Captain Orwain Sandy had started to physically abuse her. On December 27, 2017, she sent a message to a friend about being punched to the face by Sandy during an argument. It was […]
On Saturday, President David Granger took his kite-distribution exercise to Corriverton and Rose Hall in East Berbice-Corentyne (Region Six) and Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice, where hundreds of children came out to meet and interact with him and receives kites. The Head of State was accompanied by Minister of Social Protection, Ms. Amna Ally, who […]
Police in St. Kitts/Nevis are probing the murder of a Guyanese man on the island of Nevis. The dead man has been identified as 27-year-old Marlon James. He has been reportedly living in the island for a number of years and is originally from the East Coast Demerara area. According to the Charlestown Police Station […]
A Captain of the Guyana Defence Force who serves as a Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff surrendered to the Police this morning moments after he shot his girlfriend dead in Alexander village. According to reports, Captain Orwain Sandy walked in to the Police Station at Ruimveldt after shooting the woman multiple times. The […]
A 27-year-old a Labourer of Dowding Street, Kitty was stabbed to death last evening at Barr and Alexander Streets, in the same Kitty area. According to Police, the dead man who has been identified s Taj Jarvis, and his friend were walking along Alexander street, when the suspect pounced on them and demanded money from […]
The Government of Venezuela is maintaining that the International Court does not have jurisdiction in the border controversy issue with Guyana and it therefore rejects the move to the Court for a final settlement of the controversy. One day after Guyana officially filed its application to the International Court in the Hague, the Venezuelan Foreign […]
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