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The Government of the United Kingdom through its Foreign Minister on Thursday officially expressed its concern over the ongoing prorogation of the Guyana Parliament. The Parliament was suspended by President Ramotar in November and there appears to be no move by the President to lift the suspension. UK Foreign Minister Tobias Ellwood in a statement called […]
A Jamaican national who travelled to Guyana for a vacation will now be spending the rest of his time in the country behind bars after he was busted at Guyana’s Cheddi Jagan International Airport with a quantity of cocaine. He has been identified as 20-year-old Richard Daniels. The illegal substance which weighed just over 2 […]
President Donald Ramotar will deliver the inaugural address to the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Conference in India on Thursday after which he is expected to have a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Head of State, who is the Chief Guest at the event, is currently on a six-day official state visit to India. Today, […]
Minister within the Ministry of Finance, Bishop Juan Edghill is expected to spend a second night in the Georgetown Hospital on Wednesday night after being admitted on Tuesday. Edghill was rushed to the hospital complaining on Tuesday afternoon of severe dizziness and feelings of a fainting spell. He was seen by a number of Doctors […]
The Captain and two crew members of the MV Deltadiep which was busted with 420 pounds of cocaine just after arriving in Guyana from Suriname, remain in the custody of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit and are being grilled about the illegal drugs. Four other crew members remain on the ship at Linden and are being […]
Caribbean Airlines has announced that it will launch a daily non stop service between Georgetown and New York in both directions from January 15, 2015. Currently all of the airline’s flights between the two destinations stop in Trinidad and Tobago. The announcement comes just weeks after Caribbean Airlines announced that it was bringing an end […]
The Guyana Revenue Authority is reporting that the total weight of the cocaine found hidden in a container on a cargo ship at Linden, topped 420 pounds. The bust was made late Monday night into early Tuesday morning as the ship which arrived from Suriname, docked in the mining town of Linden to be loaded […]
One woman was killed and a number of other passengers seriously injured when the driver of a route 42 Timehri to Georgetown mini bus lost control of the vehicle and slammed into a utility pole. The name of the dead woman has not been released. The incident took place on Tuesday evening as the bus […]
The Village council of the Region 9 Amerindian community of Aishalton wants school teacher John Adams who complained about being slapped by a Presidential guard after he heckled the President, to be transferred from the community over the incident and “previous incidents”. According to the one of the councillors of the Village Council, Regis James, […]
The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company on Tuesday began to put in place a restructuring plan of the company’s sales and marketing department. Four staff members of sales and marketing have been told that their services are no longer required with the company. Another staff member from another department was also told Tuesday was her […]
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