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Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo today said that he is willing to prepare and submit another list of nominees for the post of Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) if he is asked by President David Granger to do so. Jagdeo made the comment ahead of a planned consultation between himself and President Granger at […]
The Board of Directors of the Georgetown Public Corporation (GPHC) has fired the Corporation’s acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Allan Johnson, following a series of lapses which they claim caused much embarrassment. A statement from the Board’s Chairperson, Kesaundra Alves noted that Johnson’s removal from the post takes effect from Friday June 9, 2017. She […]
(Barbados Today) After a decade of decline, the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Barbados and the Caribbean is on the rise again, according to a top regional health official. Quoting from the 2016 UNAIDS report, the United Nations Special Envoy on HIV to the Caribbean Dr Edward Greene, in a recent sobering revelation, reported that the region […]
Georgetown Magistrate, Judy Latchman, today refused a second order from the Director of Public Prosecutions to commit murder accused, Reagan Rodrigues aka “Grey Boy”, to stand a High Court trial for the murder of activist Courtney Crum-Ewing. Special Prosecutor, Nigel Hughes, told News Source today that the DPP issued a new direction to the Magistrate […]
Several LIAT flights around the Caribbean region have been cancelled following a move by pilots of the airline to begin strike action. The strike action comes as negotiations are ongoing for higher wages, which include the operation of the ATR aircraft. The pilots are refusing to fly the ATR 72 aircraft until an agreement is reached. […]
At the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court this afternoon, a West Berbice man was granted bail in the sum of $100,000 after being charged with converting his uncle’s raw gold to his own use. Thirty-two year old, Sherwayne Saul, appeared before the Chief Magistrate and entered a plea of not guilty to the charge that he converted […]
Laws which discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity will be subject to review and this will not necessarily depend on a referendum, according to Attorney General (AG) Senior Counsel, Basil Williams. Mr. Williams made the pronouncement on Monday during a meeting with the representatives of the Society Against Sexual Orientation (SASOD) […]
Three Venezuelan nationals, including a man who claimed he has Guyana citizenship, were fined $30,000 each after they pleaded guilty to entering Guyana illegally. The three, Marlon Atwell, Iris Bolivar and Yennifer Bolifar, appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court and through an interpreter entered the guilty plea. The Court heard that on the 22nd May […]
In the Sophia area, police are still probing the stabbing death of a labourer from the community. The incident took place on Monday evening. According to a Police report, the labourer, 45-year-old Roy Beckles, was on his way home when he noticed his wife and their neighbour in an argument. Beckles intervened in the argument and […]
Friends and neighbours of a young Cummings Lodge couple, got the shock of their lives on Monday night when they broke into the house to find the man’s decomposing body with his wife in an unconscious state and lying nearby. The dead man has been identified as 35-year-old, Kevin Dawson. His wife’s name has been […]
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