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Police investigators are probing the murder of a 21-year-old labourer of Kaneville on the East Bank of Demerara. He has been identified as Mervin Squires. He was stabbed to his chest yesterday morning and pronounced dead at the Diamond Hospital. A 17-year-old youth has been held for the murder. Initial reports state that the two […]
The Guyana Goldfields company today announced that the strike by some of its workers has ended at the Aurora mine and the company is restarting its operations in full. The strike went on for three days with the workers pressing the company to look into several of their concerns. Some of those concerns centred around […]
One year shy of officially becoming a pensioner, 64-year-old, Bent Street resident, Joseph Allen found himself before the Courts today facing illegal gun and ammunition charges. He pleaded guilty to the charges and received a two year suspended sentence on each charge. The elderly man appeared before the Chief Magistrate this morning and pleaded guilty […]
There was a Charlestown man who stole a motorcycle and he stole that motorcycle to buy a new horse. He got jail time instead. The 20-year-old, Ken Das, appeared before Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus today and admitted to stealing a motorcycle worth $180,000. Das told the Magistrate that he is a horse cart operator but was […]
One day after the Opposition Leader had what he described as a “fruitful” meeting with the President, he was out with his party’s Presidential Candidate and scores of supporters in the pouring rain outside the President’s office calling for “early elections”. The PPP brought several of its supporters to the city on Friday to join […]
The largest party in the APNU+AFC Coalition, the People’s National Congress Reform is fully behind the President’s position that there must be a clean voters list to ensure credible elections. President David Granger is the Leader of the PNC/Reform, while his Public Health Minister, Volda Lawrence, is the party’s Chairperson. It was Lawrence who hosted […]
Police investigators have moved into the East Coast community of Better Hope to probe the shooting death of a money changer and his daughter. Dead are Aaron Latchman and his 19-year-old daughter, Arriana Latchman. According to a Police statement, the father and daughter arrived at their Better Hope home around 3 o’ clock this afternoon […]
A meeting between President David Granger and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo was described as “fruitful” as the two sides start the process for the appointment of a new Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission. The two leaders were accompanied by other representatives of the Government and Opposition at the Ministry of the Presidency meeting this […]
Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo this afternoon tore into African Rights Activist and Executive of the African Cultural Development Association Eric Phillips. At his weekly press conference, Mr. Jagdeo, who has fired off at Phillips over his lease of state lands, stated that he has been doing more for the Afro-Guyanese community than Phillips ever will. […]
The Cabinet has been meeting since the ruling of the Caribbean Court of Justice and the Director General of the Ministry of the Presidency, Joe Harmon, today said the Cabinet is awaiting clarity from the Caribbean Court of Justice. Two weeks ago, the CCJ ruled that the no-confidence motion against the Government of Guyana was […]
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