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24-year-old, Travis Evans was today charged and remanded to jail for a second murder. The man who had escaped from the Lusignan jail just over a month ago and was recaptured, was marched into Court this morning to face a murder charge connected to the death of Gregory Frank at Kuru Kururu, Linden/Soesdyke Highway. He […]
The Guyana Public Service Union is calling an important meeting with members of the Public Service Cooperative Credit Union, following several complaints about the current operations of the credit union. The meeting is set for Thursday from 4:45pm at the GPSU headquarters. The credit union is currently under the management of a committee that was […]
The People’s Progressive Party picked up wins in five towns and several Neighbourhood Democratic Councils at Monday’s Local Government Elections. The party has described the victories as “massive” although it admits that the low voter turnout was national. PPP General Secretary, Bharrat Jagdeo, today said his party intends to keep the promises that it made […]
The Alliance For Change decided to step away from its national coalition partner and head into the local government elections on its own as the “fit and proper” alternative to the other parties. The results from yesterday’s elections are not as fit and proper as the AFC might have liked them to be. The party […]
While admitting that the results of the Local Government Elections prove that there is more work for her party to do on the ground, APNU Executive and PNC Chairman, Volda Lawrence said she would not base the LGE results on the party’s chances to stay in Government in 2020. She said “in terms of 2020, […]
The nation’s capital city saw a voter turn out of 28% at yesterday’s local government elections. According to the Guyana Elections Commission, of the 119,000 eligible voters in the Georgetown municipality, just over 28,000 of them cast their ballots at Monday’s elections. A Partnership for National Unity, which is mostly supported by the People’s National […]
Three popular APNU Candidates lost their race for the Georgetown City Council on Monday, but the governing party will still hold a wide majority in the Council. The candidates, Astell Collins, Andrea Marks and Shondell Hope all lost their constituency race to PPP candidates. Collins who was busy on election day assisting a few elderly […]
The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has ruled that the law in Guyana, which makes it a criminal offence for a man or a woman to appear in a public place while dressed in clothing of the opposite sex for an “improper purpose”, is unconstitutional. In a ruling handed down this morning, the Court said […]
The Guyana Elections Commission has started to release preliminary results for yesterday’s Local Government Elections. More of the results are to be released this morning. Some of those preliminary results show the two main parties, the APNU and the PPP maintaining and strengthening their hold in many of their traditional bases, while the Alliance For […]
The political parties and independent candidates competing in today’s local government elections have been encouraging eligible registered voters to ensure they go out and cast their ballots. The Guyana Elections Commission is reminding voters that the absence of a national ID card cannot prevent a registered elector for casting his ballot. Public Relations Officer at […]
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