By News Source Guyana on June 1, 2015
Elections, News, Politics
It took just one man to initiate rage among dozens of supporters of the People’s Progressive Party who were protesting outside the Guyana Elections Commission on Monday morning, as he launched a counter protest against the PPP and its claims of electoral fraud in the just concluded elections. This is the second week that the PPP […]
By News Source Guyana on June 1, 2015
News
Police in the mining town of Linden are investigating the death of 36-year-old Nigel Millington whose partly decomposed body was found on Monday morning in his Amelia’s Ward home. The case is being treated as an apparent suicide but investigators are not ruling out anything else. He was reportedly found with a sheet wrapped around […]
By News Source Guyana on June 1, 2015
Elections, News, Politics
The General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party, Clement Rohee has dismissed the concerns of former party candidate and businessman Clinton Urling about the current situation in the party and former President Jagdeo’s hold on power in the party. At a Monday morning press conference, Rohee said Urling was just a candidate for the PPP […]
By News Source Guyana on June 1, 2015
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The Director of the Child Care and Protection Agency, Ann Greene has broken her silence about the alleged verbal confrontation she had with the Minister within the Ministry of Social Protection, Simona Broomes. The confrontation which took place in Greene’s office in front of the Minister of Social Protection Volda Lawrence resulted in Greene being […]
By News Source Guyana on June 1, 2015
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The Ministry of Public Infrastructure has ordered that major excavation works be carried out on a number of canals and trenches across the city as an immediate response to the flooding situation. Most of Georgetown found itself under flood waters on Sunday morning following a night of heavy downpours. Initial investigations revealed that the drainage […]
By News Source Guyana on May 31, 2015
News
Police on the West Bank of Demerara are investigating the murder of a taxi driver who was gunned down in his home. A report from the police state that just around 12:30 on Sunday morning, the 26-year-old taxi driver was at Onderneeming, West Bank Demerara home when he heard a noise coming from one of […]
By News Source Guyana on May 31, 2015
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A 23-year-old man from Kaneville on the East Bank of Demerara was stabbed to death early Sunday morning while he attempted to break into a house along with a group of accomplices just after 3 o’ clock. The dead man has been identified as Darson Ramatar. According to reports, it was just after 3 o’ […]
By News Source Guyana on May 31, 2015
Elections, News, Politics
PPP/C candidate at the recently concluded general and regional elections, businessman Clinton Urling believes that it is time for the People’s Progressive Party to rid itself of former President Jagdeo if it is to move forward and regain its “former political prestige”. In a Sunday letter to the Stabroek News, Urling who joined the PPP […]
By News Source Guyana on May 31, 2015
Sports
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – Batting great Brian Lara has blasted the decision by West Indies selectors to axe Shiv Chanderpaul for the two-Test series against Australia starting next Wednesday in Dominica, and wants the veteran left-hander back in the squad as a gesture of respect. Chanderpaul was dropped last Sunday with selectors contending […]
By News Source Guyana on May 31, 2015
News, Politics
The Guyana Trades Union Congress has issued a call for members of the new government to remember their campaign promises to “be different” from the previous administration. The GTUC’s call was issued on Saturday as it was confirmed that the Head of the Child Care and Protection Agency, Ann Greene was sent on administrative leave […]