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Caribbean Governments, including Guyana, are being called upon to lead the conversation for the abolition of the death penalty as a regional conference opened in Georgetown on Monday. The European Union, in cooperation with the British High Commission and the International Commission against the Death Penalty organised the conference so that the situation of the […]
Georgetown businessman, Nicolas Coates, managed to shoot one of five bandits who entered his Bel Air home last evening. The businessman whipped out his firearm after he was shot by one of the men and he opened fire on the group, hitting one of them as they dashed from the house. The incident took place […]
In a matter of two days, Guyana’s Customs Anti Narcotics Unit has busted two men at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport with a quantity of cocaine pellets in their stomachs. A St. Lucian national who was preparing to travel to London from Guyana was busted at the airport on Saturday by CANU agents with several […]
The Opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has a planned protest outside the Guyana Election Commission’s, High Street Office, set for Tuesday midday as it continues to raise concerns with the electoral process. The PPP’s move comes as Guyana gears for local government elections early next year. These elections were last held in 1994. PPP’s Executive Secretary […]
The report of the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry is due to be handed over to government next week, but already the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is cautioning the APNU+AFC government against any “undue delay” of its release to the public. At a press conference on Monday, PPP General Secretary Clement Rohee said the […]
Just days after a Guyanese hairdresser was busted at New York’s JFK International Airport with more than 105 cocaine pellets in her stomach, another Guyanese woman has been held trying to traffic cocaine into the US using the same method. Sources close to Guyana’s Customs Anti Narcotics Unit have confirmed that a Guyanese woman was busted […]
The Ministry of Tourism has announced that a decision has been taken to no long allow visitors to the Kaieteur Falls to go to the viewing point at the edge of the waterfalls. The decision was taken in light of Saturday’s suicide by a 21-year-old young woman who jumped to hear death from the edge […]
The Guyana Police Force has launched an investigation into the shooting of a Kitty/Campbellville driver. The man, Devon Sears is currently a patient at a city hospital nursing the gunshot wound to his jaw. According to a police report, the incident took place just before 7:00pm on Sunday while the man was traversing along Sheriff Street […]
The day before 21-year-old Roshinee Pagwah took a deadly jump over the Kaieteur Falls, she took to social media to complain about feeling sad although she had it all. Pagwah travelled from Berbice to take the tour to Kaieteur. Her relatives were unaware of her visit to the area, as she told them she was […]
Demerara Bank Limited on Saturday opened the doors to its new $800 Million headquarters on Camp Street in Georgetown, with a call by President David Granger for commercial banks to continue to guard against fraud and money laundering. In his speech at the opening of the new banking facility, President Granger said Commercial banks must continue […]
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