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A 20-year-old aspiring model was brutally stabbed to death Thursday evening by her best friend as the two got involved in a heated argument just as they were about to leave the Aracari Resort on the West Coast of Demerara. Dead is Renita Thomas of South Georgetown. Her best friend of more than five years, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Authorities have arrested a suspect in the slayings of a corporate executive, his wife, their 10-year-old son and a housekeeper at a northwest Washington mansion. U.S. Marshals Service spokesman David Neumann says 34-year-old Daron Dylon Wint was arrested around 10:45 p.m. Thursday in northeast Washington. Wint is a welder who previously worked […]
Although the Guyana Tourism Authority has reported that Guyana recorded a 13.9% increase in arrivals for the first quarter of 2015, there was a sharp decrease in arrivals in the run up to national elections which were held on May 11. Guyana has seen the arrival of just over 46,000 visitors for this year. The […]
(AP) Police and federal agents searched Thursday for a welder suspected in the slayings of a wealthy construction executive, his wife, their 10-year-old son and a housekeeper inside their Washington mansion last week. D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said “just about every law enforcement officer across the country” is on the lookout for Daron Dylon Wint, […]
With Guyana set to join the group of oil producing nations, President David Granger today paid his first visit to the ExxonMobil oil drilling ship, the Deepwater Champion. The President expressed his gratitude to the ship’s crew for their recent discovery of hydrocarbons. “We are one of the Guianas, and it is a rich part […]
The Dutch navy seized six tonnes of cannabis hidden on a fishing boat while patrolling the Caribbean, the defence ministry said today, describing it as “the biggest haul to date”. “The Dutch navy found 6,000 kilogrammes of cannabis during a routine check on the fishing boat Caribbean Soul,” it said in a statement issued in […]
Members of the former government and their supporters found themselves on the picket line on Thursday midday as they launched a national protest against the just concluded national elections that ousted them from office. Former President Donald Ramotar and a number of his former Ministers and candidates of the opposition People’s Progressive Party protested for […]
President David Granger is convinced that the current land grabbing and squatting taking place in parts of the country is a “political ploy” by the ousted People’s Progressive Party to embarrass his new administration. Moments before Granger was sworn into office on Saturday, residents of Enmore and other East Coast villages started to invade state […]
Even as the ousted People’s Progressive Party is calling for a total recount and has declared that the recent national elections were fraudulent, the State Department of the United States has offered congratulations to the Guyana Elections Commission for hosting elections that were “free, fair and credible”. In a statement out of the Washington Headquarters, […]
Guyana’s new Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan intends to have a National Budget prepared and presented to the National Assembly for consideration by September. Jordan, who previously served as Head of the Budget Agency within the Ministry of Finance and is a highly trained and respected Economist, assured that the 2015 budget will cater for […]
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