By News Source Guyana on August 14, 2025
News
Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo today dismissed allegations by gold dealer, Junior Baksh, of alleged corrupt acts involving senior Government officials and their alleged involvement in illegal gold dealings and bribe payments as nothing more than a rumour. He said the accusations are false, and told reporters that the gold dealer has since stated that he […]
By News Source Guyana on August 14, 2025
News, Politics
Vice President and PPP General Secretary, Bharrat Jagdeo, today challenged the Mohamed family to deny that the elder Mohamed, businessman Nazar Mohamed, visited the Venezuelan Embassy to apply for a Venezuelan visa. Nazar Mohamed is the father of WIN party leader and Presidential Candidate, Azruddin Mohamed. The two Mohameds and their businesses remain under US […]
By News Source Guyana on August 14, 2025
Crime, News
A security guard, who was attached to the KGM Security Company, was charged for murder and remanded to jail today over the shooting death of Cuban national, Pedro Slonchak. Appearing at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court before Magistrate Fabayo Azore, security guard Kelvin Belgrave, was not required to enter a plea to the indictable murder charge. […]
By News Source Guyana on August 14, 2025
News, Politics
With Guyana still facing aggression from neighbouring Venezuela with its claims of Guyana’s Essequibo region, President Irfaan Ali believes that his party, the People’s Progressive Party, is Guyana’s best option to secure Guyana’s territorial integrity. At a public meeting in Alexander Village on Wednesday night, the President said in a complex global environment, his party […]
By News Source Guyana on August 14, 2025
Education, News, Politics
The Waramuri Secondary School in Region One was commissioned on Wednesday, with the Government seeing it as an example of closing the gap with the education offerings in the Hinterland and the Coast. The school was designed to accommodate close to 400 children from Waramuri and neighbouring villages. The President noted the investments that […]
By News Source Guyana on August 13, 2025
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Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, has announced that the results for this year’s CXC examinations will be released on Friday. In a statement, the Minister expressed optimism about improved student performance, particularly in mathematics. She noted that last year, Guyana, along with the rest of the Caribbean, recorded unsatisfactory results in Mathematics, which caused the […]
By News Source Guyana on August 13, 2025
News, Politics
Guyana’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Carloyn Rodrigues- Birkett is taking a break from her diplomatic duties and is back home on the campaign trail for the governing People’s Progressive Party. The Ambassador to the UN was a speaker the commissioning of the Waramuri Secondary School in Region 1 this afternoon, and told […]
By News Source Guyana on August 13, 2025
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APNU Candidate, Ricky Ramsaroop, is encouraging voters to vote against corruption and cronyism, while accusing the governing People’s Progressive Party/Civic Government of pillaging the resources of the country. Speaking at an APNU Public Meeting in Haslington on the East Coast of Demerara last night, Mr. Ramsaroop said the poor management of the country’s natural resources […]
By News Source Guyana on August 13, 2025
News
Attorney General Anil Nandlall has dismissed the corruption claims against a number of Government officials by a billionaire gold trader as “fake”. The businessman, Junior Baksh, made the allegations of illegal gold trading and other corruption claims in an interview with journalist, Travis Chase. The video was released by activist, Melissa Atwell on her page. […]
By News Source Guyana on August 13, 2025
News, Politics
Presidential Candidate and Leader of the We Invest in Nationhood party, Azruddin Mohamed, has denied claims by Foreign Minister, Hugh Todd, that he has been making frequent visits to the Venezuelan embassy and that he has applied for a Venezuelan visa. Todd made the claims on Tuesday afternoon in an interview conducted and released by […]