By News Source Guyana on March 5, 2014
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The Government of Guyana continues to cry foul over the opposition’s decision to put in place a number of changes to the amendments to the anti money laundering bill. At a Press Conference on Tuesday afternoon, Chairperson of the Select Committee on the anti money laundering bill, member of parliament Gail Teixiera said the amendment […]
By News Source Guyana on March 3, 2014
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Guyana is the latest stop for the Queen’s Baton relay. The baton which arrived earlier today in the country, and which since has made its way around Georgetown, will spend two days in the country, travelling to Berbice and Lethem. The baton relay in Guyana began on Main Street, where this morning Head of State […]
By News Source Guyana on March 3, 2014
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The Prime Minister’s son, Samuel Hinds Jr. appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Monday and was granted bail in the sum of $150,000 on charges of unlawful wounding and threatening behaviour against a woman believed to be his sister in law at Duke Street in Kingston, Georgetown. The younger Hinds was represented by Charles […]
By News Source Guyana on March 3, 2014
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Local cell service provider Digicel has responded to an appeal to provide shoes for more than one hundred hinterland students so they could get to school safely. According to the company, the appeal was made by the Headmistress of the Hobodeia Primary School, Ms. Vieda Wills. When Ms. Wills took office in May 2013 she became […]
By News Source Guyana on March 2, 2014
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Guyana’s governing party, the People’s Progressive Party Civic is not happy that many Guyanese have been raising questions about the decision to have former President Bharrat Jagdeo flown out of the country on a private jet to be treated in Florida for dengue. An emergency medical evacuation was activated two Saturdays ago for the former […]
By News Source Guyana on March 1, 2014
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Police in Buffalo, New York this week nabbed former Guyana Revenue Authority cashier Gregory Barnes who has been on the run from Guyanese law enforcement for the past four years after allegedly pulling off a $300 Million fraud at the revenue agency. According to reports out of Buffalo, the wanted man Gregory Alistair Ewan Barnes […]
By News Source Guyana on March 1, 2014
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The Lord Giveth but the Police were called to taketh away on Friday when a thief was caught red handed at the Central Assembly of God Church on Church Street as he attempted to run off with the handbag of one of the worshipers. Police sources explained that the Church was hosting its regular Friday […]
By News Source Guyana on March 1, 2014
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Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett and Representative of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Marianna Flach signed an agreement for the implementation of the 2014 annual work-plan, which will allow for specific interventions and support programmes to be executed by the Ministries of Education, Health, Human Services and Social Security and Culture Youth and […]
By News Source Guyana on March 1, 2014
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Even as the Government tries to shoot down allegations that one of its own Ministers was drunk driving when he slammed into another car, Guyana’s Prime Minister Samuel Hinds wants more Traffic Officers to be equipped with Breathalyzers and radar guns. Just recently, the Government admitted that in the entire Guyana, the Police Force only […]
By News Source Guyana on February 28, 2014
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Police investigators have traveled to the Rock Creek, Cuyuni area to conduct investigations into the brutal murder of 35 year old Bibi Shaneeza Bhola who was found in her shop in the mining district with a stab wound to her stomach. The woman who hailed from the West Demerara village of La Grange worked in […]