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With help from the United States Government and the Inter – American Development Bank (IDB), Guyana is moving ahead with tougher legislation to fight cyber crimes and other accompanying illegal activities such as to identity theft, child bullying and child pornography. A consultative session was spearheaded by the Ministry of Legal Affairs on Wednesday morning […]
The opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is not happy with the return of the “Vote Like A Boss” voter campaign,which encourages electors to get out and vote on elections day. In a two-page statement, the PPP described the group as a “political non-entity” and charged that it “comes to life only at elections time, first […]
British High Commissioner to Guyana Greg Quinn has given the Guyana Government thumbs up for both its immediate and long term responses to the deadly Camp Street Prison unrest. Quinn told reporters on Tuesday that he was pleased with the response of President David Granger and his Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan. He said he […]
By Gordon Moseley The Commission of Inquiry looking into the deadly prison unrest at the Camp Street, Georgetown prison went inside the jail house this afternoon as part of a site visit to give the Commissioners and the Attorneys a clearer view of the scene of the March riot that left 17 prisoners dead. Representatives from […]
Investigators from the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission and the Police Force have travelled to the Region 8 mining district of Konawuk in the Mahdia Backdam to probe the death of a young miner. Dead is 19-year-old, Trenton Sebastian. He died after being completely covered with soil while digging a mining pit along with other […]
by Kurt Campbell The Commission of Inquiry into the deadly Camp Street Prison unrest continued to hear of ill-treatment of prisoners within the facility, this time from a crying inmate. The fourth prisoner to appear before the Commission was 39 – year – old Michael Lewis, who took the stand on Tuesday and recounted his […]
Three days before Guyanese head to the polls to elect councillors to the various Local Government organs around the country, the Leader of Team Benschop, political activist Mark Benschop, is confident that his group could pull off a landslide victory in the City of Georgetown. Team Benschop is only contesting in the Georgetown municipality. Appearing […]
Prominent Guyanese Canadian Attorney, Selwyn Pieters will be representing the interests of the Guyana Prison Service and the Guyana Police Force in the ongoing Prison Unrest Commission of Inquiry. Mr. Pieters flew in to Guyana overnight and is expected to make his application to participate in the Commission’s work today. In his application to serve […]
(BBC) Venezuela’s Attorney General Luisa Ortega Diaz says the remains of four out of 28 miners who have been missing since 4 March have been found. The Venezuelan authorities are expected to give more details of the operation in the next few hours. Relatives said the 28 men were killed by a criminal gang after […]
Police investigators in A’ Division are probing the death of a 60-year-old farmer who was found murdered in his Hill Foot, Linden/Soesdyke Highway house on Monday. The man has been identified as Anthony Breedy. His body was found with multiple injuries to head. His hands and feet were tied and a piece of wood was […]
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