By News Source Guyana on July 8, 2019
News, Politics
Having failed to get the Full Court to put a stay on a High Court Judge’s order for the Finance Minister to pay up a judgment against the Government or face jail time, the Attorney General has now taken the matter to the Court of Appeal. The case is related to the awarding of judgment […]
By News Source Guyana on July 8, 2019
News
The Ministry of Public Infrastructure is moving ahead with the construction of a tarmac for a market and parking lot in the Diamond community. The contract for the project has been awarded. According to the Ministry, the contract was awarded to Bardon Construction Service for a sum of fifty-seven million, and one hundred and eighty-eight […]
By News Source Guyana on July 8, 2019
Elections, News, Politics
Representatives of President David Granger and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo are scheduled to meet this afternoon to begin “hammering” out the process for the official submission of nominees for the position of GECOM Chairman. Public Health Minister Volda Lawrence, Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan and Director General of the Ministry of the Presidency Joe Harmon […]
By News Source Guyana on July 8, 2019
News
Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo through his party’s executive member, Gail Teixeira, has put forward the names of eleven persons who were previously rejected by the President for consideration for the GECOM Chairman’s job. The eleven are retired Major General Joe Singh, retired Major General Normal McLean, retired Judges BS Roy and William Ramlall, Private Sector […]
By News Source Guyana on July 8, 2019
Crime, News
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 […]
By News Source Guyana on July 5, 2019
News
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 […]
By News Source Guyana on July 5, 2019
Crime, News
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 […]
By News Source Guyana on July 5, 2019
News
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 […]
By News Source Guyana on July 5, 2019
Elections, News, Politics
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 […]
By News Source Guyana on July 5, 2019
Crime, News, Politics
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 […]