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As Guyana gears up for the May 11, 2015 General and Regional Elections, the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission, Dr. Steve Surujbally is confident that the Commission will oversee a properly conducted process. Speaking at the end of a Media Code of Conduct for the Elections workshop on Wednesday, the GECOM Chairman declared that […]
Kurt Campbell reports… The United States Embassy here in Georgetown is currently in the process of hiring American nationals to carry out the work of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in Guyana. U.S. Embassy Chargé d’Affaires, Bryan Hunt told News Source on Wednesday that the DEA already has personnel working out of the Embassy in Georgetown. News […]
The student population of the University of Guyana (UG) continues to speak out against the prevailing substandard conditions at the institution and on Tuesday held a press conference where students conveyed their frustration and sore disappointment that even in the face of weeks of industrial action by staffers, the situation remains the same. Students regarded […]
The Alliance for Change (AFC) is not taking lightly pronouncements by the ruling People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) that it has signed its “death warrant” following the formation of a pre – elections coalition between itself and the main opposition, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU). AFC Executive and Prime Ministerial Candidate for the newly […]
Agriculture Minister Leslie Ramsammy has clarified a statement issued by him and carried by News Source which appeared to have given the impression that he believed that the new coalition between the two opposition parties, APNU and AFC stood a chance at winning the upcoming elections. In his statement Ramsammy said “I am not disappointed […]
A 28-year-old man from Stanleytown, West Bank Demerara remains under police guard on Tuesday after he was busted at the Ogle International Airport with cocaine pellets in his stomach. According to the police, the man was getting ready to board a LIAT flight to Barbados when the bust was made. He was immediately arrested and […]
The governing People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) continues to reject the newly formed alliance between the opposition parties with General Secretary Clement Rohee declaring on Tuesday that the Alliance for Change (AFC) has signed its death warrant. Rohee has always criticized the AFC for its support to the main opposition, A Partnership for National Unity […]
During the 2011 elections campaign for the People’s Progressive Party, Bishop Juan Edghill declared that had Jesus been around in Guyana then, he would have voted PPP Civic. The statement drew the ire of the Christian community, but Edghill was later selected as the Minister within the Ministry of Finance for the new PPP Civic administration which […]
A 50-year-old old Berbice woman is battling for her life after being badly chopped about her body on Monday by her husband who eventually took his own life after the woman was rushed to the hospital. Dead is 58-year-old Deonarine Juianand of No. 19 Village, Corentyne, Berbice. According to a police report, the man and […]
Vice Chancellor of the University of Guyana (UG) Professor Jacob Opadeyi is now begging for normalcy to be returned to the institution which has been plagued with weeks of industrial action as staffers demand salary increases and a better teaching and learning environment. The VC who had rejected the pleas for an increase maintains even […]
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