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A 49-year-old Guyanese woman and her two children are facing drug trafficking charges in neighbouring Brazil after they were busted with almost 9 pounds of marijuana on Thursday. According to reports, the three were arrested in the area that connects Boa Vista to Guyana. The mother has been identified as Khumwatte Narine Adams while her […]
A mines officer attached to the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission was gunned down on Friday midday while driving along the four lane road in the Little Diamond area on the East Bank of Demerara. The dead man has been identified as Trevor Abrams who is believed to be in his mid 20’s. According to […]
During the years 2012 to 2013, the Government of Guyana ran up a hefty bill on medical expenses for government officials and other persons. While medical assistance was offered for some regular citizens, government officials enjoyed full payments for all types of medical expenses including dental work. According to a document put together by the […]
Region 10 Chairman and APNU Linden Campaign Manager Sharma Solomon has welcomed the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) Prime Ministerial Candidate, Elizabeth Harper to the political front, but he is convinced that there is very little the Ramotar/Harper ticket could offer to the Guyanese people. Solomon noted the diversity she brings to the PPP/C slate […]
The Working People’ Alliance has fired off at the Inter American Bank for signing another loan agreement with the government of Guyana during the prorogation of parliament, the absence of parliamentary oversight and just months before national elections. The IDB earlier this month signed a new US$32 million loan package with the Guyana government to […]
Some key players in the local rice industry are sending a strong message to the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) government that the game is over for the 22 – year – old administration with indications that they will encourage other rice farmers and millers to vote for the newly formed opposition coalition when Guyanese […]
The Office of Professional Responsibility has launched an investigation into the death of a West Coast Demerara man who was found lying on the floor in the lock ups at the Parika Police station and later pronounced dead at the Leonora Hospital. The man, 28-year-old Zaharadeen Razan was taken into police custody on Tuesday evening […]
Prime Minister Samuel Hinds has indicated that he has no worries over comments made by the PPP’s General Secretary Clement Rohee who described the Civic component of the of the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) alliance as a “loose arrangement.” The Prime Minister who reportedly headed the civic component since it was added to the PPP […]
The government has announced that it intends to utilize some $166 million dollars to distribute a total of 6000 home solar systems to households in Amerindian communities and other riverain and coastal communities. The announcement comes at a time when the administration is already being accused of seeking to buy the votes of the electorate, particularly […]
The lifeless body of a Barbadian man was found on Tuesday evening in a room at the Hicksville Hotel in Georgetown and investigators suspect that the man may have suffered a heart attack during an escapade with a woman he had checked in with. Police investigators were called to the hotel just after 6:30pm on […]
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