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The Toshao of Santa Rosa in Region One, has rapped the National Toshaos’ Council (NTC) accusing the NTC of leading a smear campaign aimed at discrediting the Toshao of Chinese Landing, Orin Fernandes, over his representation of his community. However, the Chairman of the National Toshaos’ Derrick John has dismissed the claims of the NTC […]
President Irfaan Ali has brushed aside suggestions that the US Government through the local embassy should broker dialogue between the Government and the Opposition. In an interview earlier on Tuesday, outgoing US Ambassador to Guyana Sarah-Ann Lynch while underscoring the need for the two sides to engage more, said the US stands ready to broker […]
35-year-old Bartica businessman, Raymond Rupnarine, was charged this morning with the offence of murder committed on Bartica resident, Mark Braithwaite, who was beaten to death with a hammer. The murder accused appeared at the Bartica Magistrates’ Court this morning and was not allowed to enter a plea to the indictable murder charge. Rupnarine has been […]
Investigators from the Guyana Police Force are investigating the murder of a 57-year-old security guard, who was attached to the Lusignan Golf Course on the East Coast Demerara. The dead man has been identified as Dalchand Dhanai. In a brief statement, the Guyana Police Force said that at around 6:20 this morning, someone contacted the […]
An officer of the Guyana Prison Service has emerged as the Best Graduating student in the Guyana Defence Force’s Standard Officer’s Course #54. During a Commissioning parade on Wednesday, Prison Officer Brandon Thomas was upgraded to the rank of Cadet Officer-Prison and presented with the Sword of Honor as the Top Student. He also received […]
A 17-year-old youth, who worked as a miner, lost his life on Tuesday aftrernoon in a mining pit collapse at Cow Pen Backdam in the Puruni River area, Region 7. The young man, who is originally from Parika, has been identified as Anthony Richard. A Police report said the teenager and other workers were in […]
The United States Department of Agriculture is still reviewing the five-year long ban on the importation of catfish from Guyana, outgoing US Ambassador to Guyana, Sarah Ann-Lynch said on Tuesday. During a radio interview, the Ambassador admitted that the review will take some time, but said that there has been constant contact between the relevant […]
Guyana’s Fourth Round of Mutual Evaluation by the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) will commence on Monday, 4th September. Starting next Monday, CFATF experts will assess Guyana’s Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) regime, including the country’s legal framework, and its levels of implementation. Significant attention will also be placed on […]
The President is expected to appoint the Constitutional Reform Commission in September, according to Attorney General Anil Nandlall. During his weekly television programme ‘Issues In The News,’ the Attorney General explained that the process of nominating persons to sit on the 20-Member Commission will commence shortly with the hope that before the end of September, […]
Describing Guyana’s rainforest as one of the best in the world that can be leveraged, former British Prime Minister, Sir Tony Blair, today said he believes that there must be balance between development and the protection of the country’s environment, even as he hailed Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS). The former British Prime Minister […]
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