By News Source Guyana on June 6, 2016
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Police in the Mahdia area are hoping to get persons to come forward with information that could lead to the arrest of whoever may be responsible for the stabbing death of a 25-year-old Mahdia resident. A statement from the Police stated that just after 3:30 on Monday morning, Police ranks responded to the area of Dadagoo […]
By News Source Guyana on June 6, 2016
News, Politics
Minister of Business, Dominic Gaskin, will be adding the Tourism portfolio to his list from July 1, 2016. The move comes as the Government is trying to focus more on Public Telecommunications and needs the Minister responsible for that, Cathy Hughes, to focus solely on that portfolio. Hughes will continue to serve as the Minister […]
By News Source Guyana on June 6, 2016
News, Politics
The People’s Progressive Party does not intend to shy away from its responsibility to settle its debt with the state-owned National Communications Network. However, the party would like NCN to provide all the invoices and supporting proof of bookings for the more than $55 Million worth of television and radio ads that were aired on […]
By News Source Guyana on June 6, 2016
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Former Speaker of the National Assembly, Senior Counsel Ralph Ramkarran has added his voice to concerns being expressed about the government’s decision not to publicize the names of the youths who were pardoned last year by the President. The youths would have been nearing the completion of their prison sentences for “minor offences”, according to […]
By News Source Guyana on June 5, 2016
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Three months after he was asked to proceed on leave following the deadly Camp Street Prison unrest, Deputy Director of the Guyana Prison Service, Gladwin Samuels will return to the job on Monday, 6th June, 2016. Samuels will immediately take on the role of Acting Director of Prisons as the Director will be on overseas assignment. […]
By News Source Guyana on June 5, 2016
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The Guyanese developers of the recently launched, all Guyana app, Directory.GY, have emerged as one of five winners of the PitchIT Caribbean Challenge which wrapped up on Saturday in Montego Bay, Jamaica. According to a statement from the developers, the lone Guyanese mobile application, triumphed over 20 other regional mobile applications for one of the […]
By News Source Guyana on June 5, 2016
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The Caribbean American Domestic Violence Awareness (CADVA) group announced on Friday that it is working to coordinate services and help for child survivors of domestic homicide. Director of CADVA Dianne Madray said under the new project the group has already began working with eight families across the country and is collecting data of surviving children […]
By News Source Guyana on June 5, 2016
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Police investigators and members of the bomb squad were on Saturday night called to the Saffon Street office of Kaieteur News after a grenade was found close to the car of the newspaper’s publisher Glenn Lall. The discovery was made as staffers congregated for a wake in memory of their fallen colleague, Dale Andrews. Mr. […]
By News Source Guyana on June 4, 2016
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A motorcyclist in his early twenties died on Friday night in the town of Linden after slamming in to a motorcar. The tragic accident took place along the Amelia’s Ward Public Road. Dead is 22-year-old Micheal Fox of Amelia Ward, Linden. According to Police Inspector with responsibility for traffic in the mining town, Leonard Craig, a […]
By News Source Guyana on June 4, 2016
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Five Corentyne, Berbice men who are all suspected of being river pirates, appeared at the Number 51 Magistrates Court in Berbice on Friday and were all remanded to prison after being charged for the murder of fisherman, Hamechand Sookdeo. The five, Ramchand Latchman, Ganesh Naidoo, Leon Sammy, Stephen Leacock and Ramesh Singh all of Corentyne, […]