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In a move that could possibly affect the conduct of Local Government Elections in March 2023, the opposition APNU+AFC has moved to the Courts to have the Preliminary List of Voters for the Local Government Elections scrapped. In the application filed by Chief Scrutineer of the APNU+AFC Carol Smith-Joseph against the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), […]
Christmas preparations in the East Coast Demerara communities of Good Hope and Lusignan were dampened on Saturday after a 29-year-old man was electrocuted while erecting a metal Christmas tree in the Lusignan area outside the home of a businessman during rainy conditions. The dead youth has been identified as machinist, Deepak Ramdeen. Ramdeen along with […]
Election Commissioner Sase Gunraj has accused former GECOM Chief Election Officer (CEO), Keith Lowenfield of repeatedly defying the orders of the Guyana Elections Commission to provide an accurate report of the outcome of the 2020 Elections following the historic National Recount. Commissioner Gunraj made the damning allegation when he appeared before the Commission of Inquiry […]
Days after she initially claimed that her 85-year-old aunt, Sumintra Sawh was stabbed and beaten to death by armed robbers, 35-year-old caretaker Roshanie Basdeo was this morning charged with her aunt’s murder. The West Coast Berbice woman appeared before Magistrate Peter Hugh and was not required to enter a plea to the charge that on […]
The Government of Guyana and Hess Corporation today signed a REDD+ Carbon Credit Purchase Agreement paving the way for the oil company to purchase high quality carbon credits for a minimum of US$750 Million between 2022 and 2032 directly from the Guyanese Government. In his address at the signing ceremony at State House, President Irfaan […]
Justice Gino Persaud this afternoon ruled that there were no grounds for the Police Service Commission (PSC) to withdraw from the case challenging the legality of the suspension of former Chairman of the PSC, Paul Slowe and the other Commissioners, as he dismissed two interlocutory applications filed by the Attorney General and the PSC. “There […]
For the third time this week, Police investigators have found themselves probing the murder of an elderly woman, whose life was snuffed out by a close relative. This morning, investigators were called to 11 Princess Street in Georgetown following the murder of 75-year-old Audrey Harris. Investigators have launched a search for the woman’s mentally ill […]
The operators of the fuel tanker, MV Tradewind Passion, that slammed into the Demerara Habour Bridge causing more than $1B in damages last October, were not required to deposit $250 Million in cash before the ship departed Guyana, according to the attorneys representing the ship company. Earlier this week, local authorities suspended three employees of […]
A post-mortem examination conducted on the body of 75-year-old Agatha Gamell who was found murdered in her Charity, Essequibo home has listed her cause of death as multiple injuries. Government Pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh reported that the woman’s body bore multiple injuries and wounds. The grand daughter of the elderly woman was arrested for the […]
Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Jermaine Figueira of the APNU+AFC complained to the National Assembly that the Government has been stalling the work of the PAC, in an attempt to prevent scrutiny of its management of the country’s resources. MP Figueira, at the time, was moving a motion for the adoption of the […]
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