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Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge is in the United States and yesterday he met and held discussions with the US Deputy Secretary of State John J. Sullivan. According to the US State Department, the two leaders commended the strength of the U.S.-Guyana partnership, and Deputy Secretary Sullivan affirmed Guyana’s sovereign rights and jurisdiction within its Exclusive […]
There are widespread protests in Venezuela against the Nicolas Maduro administration and the protesters might now be emboldened by the decision of the US President to announce that the US will not recognize Mr. Maduro as president. US President Donald Trump announced this afternoon that he recognises Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó as the country’s […]
Submissions and arguments in the Ram vs Attorney General no-confidence motion case were completed today and Chief Justice Roxanne George-Wiltshire has indicated that she will hand down her decision on the 31st January. The case was brought against the Attorney General and the Speaker of the National Assembly by Attorney and Chartered Accountant, Christopher Ram, […]
One of the suspects in last night’s gunning down of security officer, Kelvin Walters, at McDoom , has been arrested. The suspect has been identified 25-year-old Devon Williams of Albouystown. He was arrested at the Woodlands Hospital last evening, where he had gone to seek medical attention for a broken left pelvis. Investigators were alerted […]
Police investigators are on the hunt for at least two armed men who shot a young driver dead on the Eccles Public Road this evening. The dead man has been identified as 35-year-old Kelvin Walters. He was rushed to the Georgetown Hospital with a gunshot wound to the face. Doctors pronounced him dead on arrival. […]
The Guyana Elections Commission held its first statutory meeting in almost two months today as the Chairman returned to work following more than a month of medical leave. Today’s meeting saw the Chairman suspending the agenda of the meeting to look at issues related to possible early elections. The Chief Elections Officer has now been […]
A former member of the Guyana Police Force, who found himself on the other side of the law, will be spending the next four years in jail after being found guilty of cocaine trafficking. Ex-policeman Louis Dublin was today sentenced by Magistrate Leron Daly on the completion of the trial. He was arrested and charged […]
The Largest party in the coalition government, the People’s National Congress is making it clear that President David Granger will be the Coalition’s Presidential Candidate for the next elections. Mr. Granger is also the Leader of the People’s National Congress and Chairman of the APNU. In a statement, PNC General Secretary Amna Ally said the […]
As the dust settles following the election of Irfaan Ali to lead the People’s Progressive Party into the next elections, two of the former hopefuls for the same position have revealed that they preferred Anil Nandlall for the top spot. In Facebook posts this evening, both Dr. Frank Anthony and Dr. Vindhya Persaud revealed that […]
Two members of the deadly Venezuelan Sindicato Gang, who were caught in Guyana with grenades, have been remanded to prison. The two Venezuelan men, Daniel Alberto and Luis Alfredo Vasquez Gonzales, stood before Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court this morning and did not have much to say as the charge was read […]
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