 |      | |  |
More than a month after he went on the run after brutally stabbing his wife to death in the Sunset View Hotel in Georgetown, Corentyne resident Sadesh Appadu, has died. The man reportedly turned up at the home of a relative recently after ingesting a poisonous substance. He was later found dead. In a statement […]
Police on the West Coast of Berbice are investigating the murder of 27-year-old Dwayne Byass called ‘Eddo’, of Golden Fleece, West Coast Berbice. The self-employed man was stabbed to death this afternoon at Paradise on the West Coast of Berbice during a domino game at a shop. A police statement on the murder indicated that […]
The Guyana Prison Service has announced that female prisoners who are currently being housed at the New Amsterdam Prison, will be moved to the Timehri Prison on Wednesday. The move is a temporary one. The women offenders will be housed at Timehri while construction works are being carried out at the New Amsterdam jail to […]
So far for this year, the Guyana Fire Service has responded to 510 building fires and some 807 grass fires, the Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn announced today. He made the statement today while responding to questions from Opposition Member of Parliament Geeta Chandan-Edmond as he justified the allocation of an additional $24M in […]
Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha today defended Government’s decision to continuously bail out the cash-strapped Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), telling the Committee of Supply in the National Assembly, that the recently reopened Rose Hall Estate will be one of the most productive estates, despite its current underperformance. At the time, Minister Mustapha was defending the […]
Opposition Member of Parliament, Amanza Walton-Desir today grilled Foreign Affairs Minister, Hugh Todd on the Argyle Declaration that came out of the talks between President Irfaan Ali and Venezuela’s President, Nicolas Maduro last week in St. Vincent. During today’s sitting of the National Assembly, the Opposition MP submitted that while the Argyle Declaration addresses the […]
The Speaker of the National Assembly, Manzoor Nadir today blocked a Motion that was filed by the Opposition which was seeking to establish a multi-stakeholder Task Force to address issues arising out of the Venezuela/Guyana Border Controversy. A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) Member of Parliament, David Patterson, in tabling the […]
British Under Secretary of State and Member of Parliament David Rutley is in Guyana for a series of meetings. This morning, he met with President Irfaan Ali and a Government team at State House. The British High Commissioner was also part of the meeting. In a statement, the President’s Office said the discussions focused on […]
By Svetlana Marshall Demanding that ‘good governance prevails,’ the Linden Mayor and members of his Town Council picketed the Office of the Local Government Commission today over moves by the Commission to appoint Government Political Activist Lennox Gasper as the Municipal Town Clerk. The protesters said the process has already been “botched” by the Local […]
The Opposition suffered another major setback in its attempt to vitiate the results of 2020 Elections, with the Court of Appeal ruling this morning that there was nothing unconstitutional about Order 60, thereby upholding the earlier ruling by the Acting Chief Justice. Order 60 is the order that was used for the recount. In April […]
 |
