By News Source Guyana on May 13, 2016
News
Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum has announced that six teenagers have been arrested for the murder of retired University Professor, Dr. Perry Mars. The man who worked for a number of years at Universities in the U.S, was found beaten to death at his Prashad Nagar home on Thursday night. His hands and feet were tied […]
By News Source Guyana on May 13, 2016
News
An East Coast Demerara man is in custody after he stabbed his brother in law to death on Thursday night over an argument about contracted work for a property that was not being completed. Dead is 53-year-old Terrence Adams of Haslington, East Coast Demerara. He was stabbed to the neck and other parts of the […]
By News Source Guyana on May 13, 2016
News
Police investigators are probing the murder of former University Professor, Dr. Perry Mars. The 75-year-old man was found tied up and beaten to death in his Prashad Nagar home last evening. According to reports, his wife made the discovery after she returned home from work. Police suspect that robbery may have been the motive. There […]
By News Source Guyana on May 12, 2016
News, Politics
The report of the Commission of Inquiry into the death of Guyanese historian, political activist and scholar, Dr. Walter Rodney, was officially laid in the National Assembly on Thursday and made available to the media and public. The report concludes that Dr. Rodney’s assassination was state organised. According to the findings, former President and then […]
By News Source Guyana on May 12, 2016
News, Politics
by Kurt Campbell President David Granger delivered yet another address to the Parliament on Thursday in which he called on Parliamentarians, both on the Government and Opposition side, to do what must be done to rid Guyana of the disunity and racial rivalry that still plagues the land. The President said he believed that as […]
By News Source Guyana on May 12, 2016
News
An accident may have been the cause of the Monday afternoon fire that destroyed the Gafoors Houston Complex and its storage bonds. Fire Chief Marlon Gentle spoke to News Source on Thursday and indicated that while the Fire Service’s investigation is still ongoing, preliminary inspection has pointed investigators in the direction that the fire may […]
By News Source Guyana on May 12, 2016
Caribbean & International, News
(BBC) Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff is to face trial after the Senate voted to impeach and suspend her. Ms Rousseff is accused of illegally manipulating finances to hide a growing public deficit ahead of her re-election in 2014, which she denies. Senators voted to suspend her by 55 votes to 22 after an all-night […]
By News Source Guyana on May 12, 2016
News, Politics
Professor Eon Nigel Harris, a Guyanese who recently retired as the Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, has accepted the offer to head the University of Guyana and was installed as the 9th Chancellor of the institution on Wednesday. Professor Harris received glowing tributes at his installation ceremony, where he was regarded […]
By News Source Guyana on May 11, 2016
Elections, News, Politics
by Kurt Campbell President David Granger has expressed satisfaction with the performance of his coalition government as it observes its first year in office. Today, May 11, 2016, marked exactly one year after Guyanese voted in General Elections which ended the 22 year rule of the People’s Progressive Party and resulted in the election of the […]
By News Source Guyana on May 11, 2016
News
by Kurt Campbell Scores of street vendors remain displaced almost two weeks after they were removed from locations they once occupied around the city. On Wednesday, those displaced vendors turned up at City Hall to protest the delay in an allocation of new vending spaces and seek an early resolution. The vendors were successful in […]