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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 […]
A young man was crushed to death by a heavy duty mining truck on Monday afternoon at Kurubuka mines near Kwakwani in Region 10. He has been identified as Wesley Patwa and is believed to be in his early 20’s. A relative of the young man confirmed to News Source that he worked in the […]
After more than two years and the same charge being instituted against him twice, 42-year-old Reagan Rodrigues aka “Grey Boy” walked out of the Georgetown Magistrates Court freed of the Courtney Crum-Ewing murder charge once again. This afternoon, Magistrate Judy Latchman ruled that a case had not been made out against the man to allow […]
President David Granger and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo are to meet later this month at State House to address the Elections Commission Chairman nomination issue. On Friday, the President rejected the second list of nominees that was submitted by Mr. Jagdeo. President Granger indicated that in keeping with the Constitution, the nominees should be persons who […]
Police investigators at Linden are probing a fatal accident which occurred on Sunday night on the Amelia’s Ward public road, Linden. 29-year-old, ambulance driver, Wilbert Sydney has become the latest road fatality. The Wismar man was at the time riding his motorcycle when the accident occurred. The accident also involved motor car # PNN 4510, driven […]
Jamaican Police investigators and drug enforcement agents have reported a major drug bust in the island with links to Guyana and Suriname. According to Jamaican Police, officers attached to the Narcotics Division and members of the Contraband Enforcement Team (CET) of the Jamaica Custom Agency conducted an operation at the Kingston Freeport Terminal, Gordon Quay, […]
President David Granger said that Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Bharrat Jagdeo must submit a list that matches the criteria set out in keeping with Article 161 (2) of the Constitution of Guyana for the selection of a ‘fit and proper’ person to fill the post of Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). The […]
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