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The Solid Waste Department of the Georgetown City Council has proposed urgent considerations on licensing all private waste removers operating in the city. The move comes as the Department has found several private waste operators skipping the dumpsite and dumping garbage in areas close to the dumpsite and across parts of the city. According to […]
A suspected bandit who has been identified as Raphael Armstrong was shot dead by a Yarrowkabra shopkeeper during a robbery attempt on Sunday. According to reports it was just after 8:00pm on Sunday night that Armstrong and an accomplice entered the home of the shopkeeper and demanded money from him. The bandit and the shopkeeper […]
The People’s Progressive Party (PPP), which had one of its leaders describe local journalists as vultures, banned reporters and withhold government ads from the private newspapers during its time in office, is now expressing concern about censorship of the media in Guyana. In a Monday morning statement, the PPP said, persons of various political hues […]
South American Youth record holder and gold medalist, Jason Yaw is adjusting well to college life in Texas despite having financial difficultly. In an exclusive with News Source Sport, Yaw who is now attending Western Texas College pointed out that adjusting to the training is proving to be a walk in the park. “Well I’m adjusting […]
BCCI president Shashank Manohar has said that the $41.97 million claim imposed by the previous BCCI administration on the WICB for abandoning the 2014 tour to India mid-way has been waived. West Indies, he said, will tour India in 2017 to complete the “unfinished” matches from the 2014 series. According to Manohar, the issue was […]
A week after Ecuador’s devastating earthquake, President Rafael Correa has said the number of fatalities has risen to 646. President Correa said that another 130 people were still missing. He announced eight days of national mourning for the victims of the worst tragedy to hit the South American nation in decades. The 7.8 magnitude quake […]
Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff has said she could ask the South American trade bloc Mercosur to suspend the country if she is removed from office. Ms Rousseff has repeatedly described the impeachment process as a political coup by her rivals to oust her. She is accused of manipulating budget figures ahead of her re-election in […]
(BBC) Tensions between Guatemala and Belize over a border dispute have risen sharply after a shooting incident in which a Guatemalan teenager died. Guatemala says the 13-year-old boy was attacked by Belizean soldiers. Belize says its troops shot in self-defence after coming under fire. Belize also accuses Guatemala of “amassing” troops along the border. Guatemala’s […]
As the government seeks to reduce the overcrowding at the Georgetown Prison on Camp Street, more prison blocks are to be built at the Mazaruni Prison to accommodate more inmates even as several have been moved to the Essequibo facility already. The Camp Street Prison was built to accommodate 600 prisoners but that population has […]
The 30-year-old ex-boyfriend of the Sophia woman who was found murdered in a Cummings Lodge trench has been charged for the woman’s murder. The man, Clevaughn Hamilton, called ‘Quarters,’ appeared at the Sparendaam Magistrates’ Court on Friday and was not required to plea to the indictable charge that he murdered 24-year-old Simone Hackett and dumped […]
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