By News Source Guyana on September 16, 2015
News
The body of 40-year-old Gyaneshwarie Sivanand, has been retrieved from the bottom of the Kaieteur Falls and is currently at a Georgetown funeral home. The woman’s body was retrieved from the bottom of the 741 ft. waterfalls by a Special Forces team of the Guyana Defence Force. She went missing two weeks ago during a […]
By News Source Guyana on September 16, 2015
News, Politics
Amidst ongoing tensions between Guyana and Venezuela over Venezuela’s ongoing threats and claim to Guyana’s territory, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro has ordered the suspension of the process currently underway to grant the approval of the new Guyana Ambassador to Venezuela. The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry has announced that the procedures for acceptance were ongoing, but were […]
By News Source Guyana on September 16, 2015
Elections, News, Politics
The United Nations (UN) Office on Drugs and Crime said the previous People’s Progressive Party (PPP) administration was not forthcoming with information on corruption as it pledged renewed support to the coalition government in its fight. Regional Representative Amado Philip de Andres told media operatives that the Office received no response from the PPP administration […]
By News Source Guyana on September 16, 2015
News
Police investigators have been able to track down and arrest the man who is alleged to have murdered the Herstelling block maker and carpenter, Nathan Persaud. The hitman was arrested on Tuesday evening as the police widened their investigation into the gruesome murder. The carpenter’s wife, Beverly Persaud, was charged on Monday for the murder […]
By News Source Guyana on September 16, 2015
News, Politics
“This enterprise can become a successful model for large scale mining, and for sound environmental stewardship. It can become a matrix for our mineral driven economic renewal.” These were the sentiments expressed by President David Granger at commissioning and gold pouring ceremony of Guyana Gold fields Incorporated and Aurora Gold Mine Incorporated. “We congratulate the […]
By News Source Guyana on September 15, 2015
News, Politics
The Public Service Commission of Inquiry (COI) which was set up by President David Granger, has started its work but is doing so without any defined contractual obligations with the government. At a press conference on Tuesday, the three Commissioners claimed they were yet to hold any discussions with the government on matters concerning remuneration or […]
By News Source Guyana on September 15, 2015
News
(Antigua Observer) The Guyanese woman nabbed with cocaine at the VC Bird International Airport, in June, will spend the next three years behind bars after failing to pay the $262,500 fine imposed in the All Saints Magistrate Court yesterday. Forty-nine-year-old Carlin Jocelyn Jackson who appeared before Magistrate Nagio Emanuel was fined $131,250 for importation and […]
By News Source Guyana on September 15, 2015
News, Politics
Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo who has responsibility for Public Information has declared an end to the “abuse” that he said the state media has suffered in past years. Prime Minister Nagamootoo has now promised major policy and aesthetic reforms for the state owned National Communications Network (NCN) and the Guyana National Newspaper Limited (GNNL), which […]
By News Source Guyana on September 14, 2015
News
The widow of murdered Herstelling carpenter Nathan Persaud, was remanded to prison earlier today after being charged for the man’s murder. Persaud’s battered and lifeless body was found in his Herstelling, East Bank Demerara home. His wife, Gwendolyn Persaud later admitted that she had hired someone to kill her husband. The woman appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates Court […]
By News Source Guyana on September 14, 2015
News
Officials of US carrier, Jet Blue have started discussions with the Government of Guyana about the airline adding Guyana to its list of international destinations. The initial talks were held last Thursday in Florida on the sidelines of the Florida Conference on Current Caribbean Issues: The Diaspora Discussion. Guyana’s Vice President and Minister of Foreign […]