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Venezuelan Ambassador to Guyana, Reina Diaz, on Monday called on the Guyanese people and the Guyana Government to support the Nicholas Maduro Government in its call for peaceful dialogue to end ongoing political problems in the neighbouring state that has resulted in daily clashes between demonstrators and security forces. During a press conference at the Georgetown […]
(MOTP) President David Granger, on Sunday, said that global partnerships to combat terrorism cannot exclude small states, since conflict between and within such states, or between a small state and other states, can endanger the peace of all countries. The President, who was at the time speaking on the side lines of the Arab-Islamic-American Summit […]
A Mahaica husband and wife have found themselves behind bars and facing charges on two related offences. Hours after a 41-year-old Helena #1, Mahaica businessman, was arrested for unlicensed gun and ammunition possession, his 40-year-old wife was also arrested after she attempted to bribe a police officer to secure the husband’s release. A Police statement […]
A young policeman was tragically yesteday morning at Leguan. Police Constable 23238, 20-year-old Shaqiel Woolford, was proceeding east along the road on Motor cycle CH1860 when another motor cycle bearing registration number, CH4564 driven by a 44-yr. old Phoenix, Leguan resident, rode out of a yard from a northern direction into the path of the […]
Just a few months after calling on the government to charge members if irregularities were unearthed, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has now back peddled and condemned a move which saw two of its Members of Parliament (MPs) and four other supporters being charged for financial irregularities at the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB). On […]
The reactivation of local democratic organs is to promote the values of representativeness, inclusiveness and effectiveness, and this translates to the elimination of partisan political interest, President David Granger has said. The President made this assertion during the opening ceremony of a two-day Inaugural Municipal Conference which commenced on Friday. The event, which is being held […]
Police at Linden are investigating the gruesome mid morning murder of 37-year-old, Sheneika Elliott. The woman was reportedly chopped to death by her reputed husband this morning at her Amelia’s Ward home. Reports state that the man turned up at the house and slashed the woman to the neck before chopping her about the body […]
Two serving Opposition Parliamentarians and a former Deputy Permanent Secretary were among six persons charged on Friday for a multi-million-dollar fraud at the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB), dating as far back as 2011. The former GRDB Board members were slapped with five separate charges totaling over $400 million to which they were not required […]
Four days after the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit named him as a suspect in a 186 pound cocaine bust, popular super bike racing champion, Stephen Vieira, was arrested at Guyana’s Cheddi Jagan Airport, moments after he disembarked a flight from Jamaica. Vieira was arrested by the Police and handed over to CANU. His Attorney was […]
With his family members shouting to the heavens, a Georgetown businessman walked out of Court today as a free man, after a jury found him not guilty of murdering a suspected bandit. The businessman, Lawrence Wayne, hurried out of the courtroom and into a relative’s car moments after the verdict was read and the Judge […]
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