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ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Less than two weeks after he was found guilty of rape and remanded to prison and 11 days before he was due to be sentenced, former school teacher Jaswick Jones collapsed and died at Her Majesty’s Prison. Jones was reportedly in the prison yard when he took ill and died shortly […]
US based airline Dynamic Airways has hired the services of Tagman Media Public Relations company in an effort to boost its image following a number of delays and problems since it restarted its service between Georgetown and New York last week. Tagman Media in a statement on Monday evening reported that the airline is looking […]
Drug pushers in Guyana are continuing their efforts to get the illegal drug out of Guyana and on the American market. Last Thursday, November 27, 2014 another Guyanese woman was busted with cocaine in her suitcases after arriving at New York’s JFK Airport from Guyana. The woman has been identified as Guyanese, Melissa Cox. She […]
The Guyanese businessman and pilot Khamraj Lall, who was charged in Puerto Rico for smuggling a large sum of cash was granted bail on Monday when he appeared before US Magistrate Judge Marcos E. Lopez in a Puerto Rican courtroom. However, as part of the granting of the bail, the businessman’s attorney requested that documents […]
Relatives of the Meteen-Meer-Zorg fisherman who died after being badly beaten up while in police custody, stepped up their protest action outside the office of the Commissioner of Police on Monday afternoon. The fisherman, Asif Raheem Khatoon, died last Thursday at home just a week after he was badly beaten while in the custody of […]
The governing People’s Progressive Party has announced its support of the 5% and 8% increases in wages and salaries for public servants across Guyana. Public servants earning more than $50,000 per month will get the 5% increase while those earning less than $50,000 per month will be given the 5% increase on their monthly salaries. […]
A Dynamic Airways flight to New York from Georgetown, Guyana was cancelled on Sunday night after the 767 aircraft veered off the runway and got stuck in mud during its taxi to take off from the Cheddi Jagan International Airport. Passengers were forced to leave the aircraft after it had to be pulled from the […]
A Prospect man is dead after shooting himself to the head and his neighbour is nursing a gunshot wound in a strange story about an argument that became deadly when the police were called in and the policeman lost control of his firearm. The dead man has been identified as 46-year-old taxi driver Samuel La Fleur […]
The main opposition party, A Partnership for National Unity(APNU) has lambasted the Ramotar government for once again imposing a small salary increase for public servants while dodging any negotiation with the Guyana Public Service Union. In a Sunday statement, the APNU said it “condemns the Peoples Progressive Party/Civic administration’s arbitrary imposition of another paltry ‘freck’ […]
The 7th cycle of Continuous Registration by the Guyana Elections Commission commences on Monday, December 1, 214. In a statement, the Commission said the decision was taken unanimously at the 431st Statutory Meeting of the Commission which was held on October 14, 2014 to embark on the 7th continuous registration process. The new registration period will run […]
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