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19-year-old Baramita, North West District resident, Naderia James, appeared in Court on Tuesday where she was charged for the murder of her 20-year-old boyfriend, Kevin Smith. The young man was stabbed to death last Thursday at the couple’s dwelling place in the same Baramita community. During her Court appearance via Zoom, James was not required […]
Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce, Susan Rodrigues believes Guyanese must be given the opportunity to explore the beauty of their homeland, as she laid out her plans to inject new life into Tourism Industry. In a meeting on Monday with hotel and resort operators at the Arthur Chung Conference Center, Minister Rodrigues said since […]
Former Presidential Candidate of the Liberty and Justice Party (JLP), Lenox Shuman returned to the witness stand today in the 2020 Election Fraud trial and admitted that he had no documentary evidence to support his earlier testimony of “irregularities” during the 2020 General and Regional Elections. He made the admission under cross-examination by Attorney-at-Law Nigel […]
Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony, has made another appeal for parents to allow their children between the ages of 9 to 15-years-old to take the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, emphasizing that the vaccine guards against cervical cancer in women. In July, the Health Ministry introduced the HPV-9 vaccine to fight cervical cancer. Some 50,000 […]
Three Police divisions are reporting a decrease in murders and serious crimes, but as law enforcement officers are getting a grip of the crime situation, they are faced with new challenges of getting successful prosecutions. In many of the Court cases, witnesses have been failing to show up in Court, and victims are now opting […]
49-year-old, Diamond, East Bank Demerara businessman, Alvin Parag has been charged and remanded to prison over allegations that he was involved in the trafficking of a 31-year-old Cuban woman. Parag appeared at the Diamond Magistrates’ Court this morning where the charge was read to him. He pleaded not guilty to the charge of trafficking in […]
A Cuban national died tragically today in a workplace accident, as a concrete wall that was under construction collapsed on him at Bachelor’s Adventure on the East Coast of Demerara. The dead man has been identified as Dairobis Martinez, who was among four persons working at the site when disaster struck. He was pronounced dead […]
The Government has appointed Dr Martin Pertab to serve as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA), which falls under the Ministry of Housing. Dr Pertab previously served as the Director of the Local Content Secretariat. In a statement, the CH&PA said Dr Pertab was officially welcomed to […]
Amid repeated objections from the Defense, former Presidential Candidate of the Liberty and Justice party, Lenox Shuman, said he had repeatedly objected to a number of discrepancies during the tabulation of the votes cast in Region 4, as he took the stand on Monday and testified in the ongoing 2020 election fraud trial. Nine election […]
The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) today called for retired Chief Justice Carl Singh and the other members of the Constitutional Reform Commission to resign. The Commission was appointed by the President last year. In a statement today, the GHRA said both the Chairman and Commissioners should resign “as a matter of principle,” as a […]
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