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The Guyana Post Office Corporation has issued a warning about a scam on social media that is using the corporation’s name. In a statement, the GPOC said that it does not have any promotion on any social media site and would not request any sort of payment through any social media. Some persons have complained […]
The Guyana Civil Defence Commission is working along with other groups to gather information on Guyanese nationals who have survived Hurricane Dorian in The Bahamas and want to return home. Reports surfaced over the weekend that there are Guyanese nationals who are seeking the Guyana government’s help to have them flown home to Guyana. This […]
Deputy Commissioner of Police, Crime Chief Lyndon Alves, has been cleared of being involved in any alleged corrupt practices or criminal conduct. However, there are administrative issues that will still need to be addressed. Police Commissioner Leslie James this afternoon told reporters that the investigation by the Police Office of Professional Responsibility has cleared the […]
Today’s meeting of the Guyana Elections Commission ended once again with no firm decision being made on the way forward for national elections, but with a possible March timeline for elections being presented. The proposal with a timeline for elections in March 2020 was put before the Commission by the GECOM Secretariat today. The Opposition […]
The Opposition People’s Progressive Party is once again demanding that the Guyana Elections Commission immediately begins preparations for elections. The party has reiterated its opposition to the merger of data from the just concluded house to house registration exercise and the existing national register of registrants. Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo has indicated that the party’s […]
The Government of Guyana is of the view that the Guyana Elections Commission must be allowed to function independently and given the space needed to get the job done as it prepares for early elections. At a press conference this morning, Director-General in the Ministry of the Presidency, Joe Harmon told reporters that GECOM should […]
Two construction workers found themselves being forced to build a defence of their own today as they appeared before Magistrate Clive Nurse and were slapped with a number of forgery charges. The two men, Benvolio Valenski aka Roy Anthony Sewnarine of Betterhope and Ganesh Singh of Herstelling, were charged with forging a Guyana driver’s license […]
A 49-year-old Guyanese man who was visiting the US and lived freely in the home of a disabled Guyanese woman has been charged with the woman’s murder in New York. 63-year-old Bebe Jaomin who was restricted to the use of a wheelchair, died in a fire in her Queens home that investigators believe was deliberately […]
The Guyana Power and Light Company is advising customers in Demerara and Berbice that they could experience periods of service disruptions as the company faces a deficit of 23 megawatts of power in its system. In a statement, GPL explained that due to a defective transformer at its Onverwagt, Berbice substation, it is unable to […]
A 46-year-old North Essequibo man was today sentenced to 23 years in jail after being found guilty of the 2012 rape of 6-year-old boy. The convict, Leonard Albert called ‘Lenny’ stood quietly before Justice Simone Ramall as the sentence was handed down. Justice Ramlall told the convict that he will only become eligible for parole […]
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