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The United States on Monday committed additional financial resources to Guyana, which it hopes will be significant in supporting the new government’s law enforcement reform efforts. A letter of amendment was signed on Monday between Guyana’s Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge and Chargé d’ Affaires of the U.S Embassy in Georgetown, Bryan Hunt. It allows for the […]
Guyana has signaled its intention to no longer support the United Nations Good Officer Process as it moves forward and looks for a resolution to Venezuela’s illegal claim to the Essequibo region and Guyana’s maritime space. Guyana’s Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge made the disclosure at a Monday morning briefing. His statement is in response to […]
The General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party, Clement Rohee, this morning denied that the party has identified former Attorney General Anil Nandlall as its nominee for Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly. At his regular Monday morning press conference at Freedom House, Mr. Rohee said a report which appeared in the Guyana Times naming […]
An early Sunday morning fire completely gutted the Chinese General Store in the old AH&L Kissoon’s building at the corner of Robb and Camp Streets, leaving nothing but ashes and millions of dollars in losses behind. The fire service was summoned to the scene just after 2:00am according to eyewitnesses who reported seeing the blaze […]
The Guyana Police Force reported late on Saturday that there were 79 murders committed across Guyana between the January and the end of June for this year and one other murder recorded for the month of July so far. There were 69 murders during the first six months of the year in 2014. The Force […]
(TeleSUR English) Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro sent a letter Friday to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asking the U.N. chief to appoint a new Good Officer to diplomatically address the Venezuela-Guyana territorial issue. “As it is public knowledge, the new Government of Guyana has ignored, the entry into force of the 1966 Geneva agreement, showing a stubborn and ambivalent attitude and has inflicted serious […]
The badly decomposed bodies of a woman and her young baby were found late Friday night in a home at Grove on the East Bank of Demerara. The discovery was made by neighbours and the police. Persons in the area had summoned the police to the house to investigate the source of a rotting stench […]
President David Granger left Guyana early this morning for Ethiopia where he will attend a series of meetings as part of a United Nations conference on financing to realize the new Sustainable Development Goals. The President is being accompanied by his Foreign Minister, Carl Greenidge and a number of other senior government officials. Mr. Granger […]
Members of the Guyana Bar Association are lobbying for tighter security for judicial officials, following the home invasion and brutal beating of a Judge and her family on Thursday. The Association in a statement on Friday said its members are both shocked and saddened at the brutal attack on Land Court Judge, Nicola Pierre and […]
(Sun Sentinel) When Sonny Ramdeo embezzled at least $21.4 million from his employer, he didn’t blow the money on fancy cars and waterfront homes. Instead, federal prosecutors said Ramdeo, 38, envisioned himself as the next Sir Richard Branson — with a bandit twist — and used his ill-gotten gains to set up a charter airline […]
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