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Two taxi drivers who were arrested in a Craig, East Bank Demerara house last week, were today charged and remanded to prison for the murder of businessman, Ganesh Ramlall, AKA as “Boyo”. The two were identified as 21-year-old Fazeel Bacchus and 32-year-old Lennox Roberts. They appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court before Magistrate Ann Mclennan and were […]
Career diplomat and former Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Elisabeth Harper is among a number of persons being considered for diplomatic postings at Guyana’s various missions abroad. Ms. Harper who resigned from her Director General post to become the Prime Ministerial Candidate of the People’s Progressive Party for the May 11 elections, […]
Guyana’s Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge on Monday briefed the local business community on Guyana’s strategy as the government continues to look for ways to ward off Venezuela’s illegal claim to this country’s exclusive economic zone. Mr. Greenidge told a room full of businessmen and business women along with members of the diplomatic community, that while […]
Social Protection Minister Volda Lawrence announced on Monday that current budgetary allocations for intervention and response to flood emergencies were inadequate to satisfy the demands of the citizenry. But despite this setback, Lawrence said it is her firm belief that the government “got it right” with its response to the recent flooding where politicians allowed […]
The Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority, Khurshid Sattaur and at least 20 other GRA officers have proceeded on accumulative leave that is owed to them. Mr. Sattaur has proceeded on three weeks leave while the other officers have proceeded on leave for various lengths of time. The Commissioner General said he requested his leave. […]
An adult jaguar was shot dead early this morning after it was spotted in a back yard in the Berbice town of New Amsterdam. According to reports, the wild animal was spotted moving between bushes in the back yard and a license firearm holder was summoned to the scene as residents feared for their lives. […]
Executive member of People’s Progressive Party and former Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon has announced plans to increase his activism at the Party level as it heads into the National Assembly, this time as the opposition party. Dr. Luncheon, who had disclosed some worrying health setbacks last year, now says he will continue […]
US Ambassador to Guyana nominee, Perry Halloway intends to work closer with the Government of Guyana in the area of security, once his nomination is confirmed and he takes up his post at the US Embassy in Georgetown. Last Wednesday, Mr. Halloway appeared before the Foreign Relations Committee of the U.S Senate as his nomination […]
Two young bandits who attempted to rob a mini bus passenger after stabbing him got a trashing by public spirited persons on Sunday in the Pouderoyen area. According to a police statement, 25-year-old miner Clint Gunput boarded the bus in Georgetown and got off at Pouderoyen when the two men who also travelled in the bus […]
Police investigators are probing the stabbing death of a South Ruimveldt man. According to a police report, 21-year-old Leroy Moore of Caneview Avenue, South Ruimveldt was at a bar at Soesdyke on the East Bank of Demerara early Sunday morning, when he became involved in a drunken argument with group of men. He was reportedly […]
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