By News Source Guyana on May 14, 2016
News, Politics
State Minister Joseph Harmon has sent a Lawyer’s Letter to the Kaieteur News, threatening legal action should the Publication refuse to correct a series of articles that the Minister has deemed libelous. Minister Harmon confirmed on Thursday that his Attorney, Mr. Roysdale Forde, has sent Kaieteur News’ Publisher Glen Lall the letter. Harmon confirmed too […]
By News Source Guyana on May 13, 2016
News, Politics
The Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. (GuySuCo) is reporting a shortfall of the First Crop for 2016. The Corporation said it experienced a shortfall of 29.3% with actual production of 56, 825 tonnes compared with a budget of 80,270 tonnes. The audit of the production, which takes place at the end of each crop, is underway, […]
By News Source Guyana on May 13, 2016
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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
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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
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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
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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 […]