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Two Brazilian nationals are in Police custody following their arrests during a gold smuggling operation in the Lethem region on Wednesday. A large quantity of gold and G$26 million in cash have also been seized by the Police. The arrest of 42-year-old Albina Filho Vieira and 39-year-old Erizangela De Olivera took place during a major […]
Guyana has filed a request with the International Court of Justice seeking provisional measures to block Venezuela from moving ahead with its plans to host elections for a Governor of Guyana’s Essequibo region. In a statement this morning, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the Essequibo remains an integral part of Guyana’s national territory, […]
Officials of the Government met and held discussions today with officials from KLM Airlines as the company gets set to begin its schedule operations to Guyana in June. The KLM team included its Regional Manager Dirk Buitelaar, the Country Sales Manager for Suriname and Guyana Nalini Kanhai, and Sales Manager for Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao, […]
Retired Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force, Dr. Gary Best believes Guyana has got to do more than investing in diplomacy to hold off Venezuela’s ongoing acts of aggression. Appearing on the Nation Watch television programme one day after the incursion of a Venezuelan military vessel in Guyana’s waters near the oil ships, […]
Acting Chief Justice Roxane George on Tuesday made several orders against the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission and the Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat, setting aside their directives against two small miners for 32 gold claims. Justice George ruled that the miners Milton Brandford and Ayudhia Narine were the lawful owners of 32 gold […]
As the investigations continue into this morning’s devastating fire that gutted the 33-year-old Mae’s Private School, the administration of the school has revealed that the building which housed the various levels of the school was uninsured. The school’s administration explained that the building was in the process of being insured, but the documentation was not […]
The Education Ministry has announced its full support to ensure that the students of Mae’s School, which was gutted by fire this morning, will be accommodated at public schools to continue their education seamlessly, especially those preparing for the NGSA and CXC examinations. Education Minister Priya Manickchand was at the scene this morning as firemen […]
Parents rushed back to the Mae’s School in Subryanville this morning as a massive fire engulfed the school’s wooden building. Many parents had already dropped their children off at the school early. The Fire Service was summoned just at around 8 o’ clock this morning as an alarm was raised. Students who were already in […]
Nine months after being sanctioned by the US Government along with his son and their businesses, Guyanese business magnate Nazar Mohamed broke his silence this evening on the impact of those sanctions and the Guyana Government’s reaction. “To say that it hasn’t affected us in an understatement. Indeed, it has affected us greatly because our […]
Police in Corentyne, Berbice are on the hunt for the driver of a car that was involved in a deadly hit and run accident that claimed the life of a 9-month old baby. The baby was at the time in the company of her 17-year-old father and 19-year-old mother. The accident occurred on Sunday evening […]
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