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Two men accused of shooting a man dead outside a Canal #2 Polder wedding house and injuring another, during the course of a robbery, were charged and remanded to jail on Monday. 35-year-old Otto Pitman and 49-year-old Oliver Franklyn appeared before Magistrate Faith McGusty at the Vreed-En-Hoop Magistrate’s Court, where they were charged for the […]
The Guyana Police Force has reported that another life has been lost on the country’s roadways. 25-year-old motorcyclist, Ricardo Bipta last his life late on Monday night along the #9 Public Road on the West Coast Berbice. In a report, the Guyana Police Force stated that the accident took place at around 10:30 on Monday […]
The early Monday morning accident between a mini-bus and an SUV outside the Ruimveldt Police station has claimed the lives of a husband and wife. A Police report identified the two dead persons as 51-year-old Sarah Wilson and 54-year-old Rawle McKenzie. The husband was the driver of the mini-bus while his wife was the front […]
Prime Minister of Qatar, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, is confirmed among the growing list of dignitaries and world leaders to attend and make presentations at the upcoming Energy Conference and Supply Chain Expo in Guyana next month. The Guyana Energy Conference and Supply Chain Expo is set to take place from […]
President Irfaan Ali on Sunday announced that the government is currently in talks with the stakeholders of the Berbice River Bridge Company to see how best the government can have a greater say in the operations of the Bridge. Once finalized, he said, it will pave the way for the reduction of tolls to cross […]
Two years after the Brickdam Police Station was completely gutted by fire, the Government today turned the sod for the start of the construction of the new US$28.1M building. The Bassoo Building and Civil Engineering Company has won the contract for the Police Station’s reconstruction. This time around, the central Police station will be state-of-the-art […]
The U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) for the Western Hemisphere, Daniel P. Erikson is currently in Guyana to advance bilateral defense and security partnership talks between Guyana and the US. In a statement, the US Embassy in Georgetown said Mr Erikson’s visit “underscores the continued importance the United States places on the U.S.-Guyana […]
Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Guyana early this morning for what has been described by President Irfaan Ali as a “private visit”. Mr. Pompeo, who served in the last Donald Trump US administration, visited Guyana just after the election of the PPP Civic in 2020. In the aftermath of the Guyana […]
Veteran Guyanese and Caribbean Trade Unionist, Lincoln Lewis, has issued a call for St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, to be removed as the interlocutor of any discussion between Guyana and Venezuela on the border controversy. Last week, the St. Vincent Prime Minister wrote to President Irfaan Ali to explain that […]
With a recent spike in fires across the country, the Guyana Fire Service is again encouraging homeowners to install smoke detectors and alarms in their homes. On Saturday, the Fire Service found itself responding to five fire reports within a 24-hour period. At around 2:00 a.m on Saturday, a one-flat wooden building which was under […]
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