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Former Presidential Spokesman under the PPP, Kwame McKoy, former Office of the President staffer, Jason Abdulla and self-confessed death squad member, Sean Hinds, were all granted bail in the sum of $100,000 each when they appeared in court this morning and were charged with the unlawful assault of newspaper columnist Freddie Kissoon. The charges stemmed […]
The Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry believes that the politician was assassinated as part of a state sponsored operation. The founder of the Working People’s Alliance was killed back in 1980 when a bomb exploded as he sat in a car in Georgetown. Although there was always suspicion that the then PNC government had knowledge […]
Guyana’s Attorney General Basil Williams is disturbed by the recent judgment of outgoing Chief Justice (ag.) Ian Chang and the manner in which it was made. Justice Chang who proceeded on retirement leave earlier this year, came off of that leave to rule that two Government Ministers, Winston Felix and Keith Scott could not sit as technocrat […]
Outgoing Chief Justice Ian Chang has ruled that Minister of Citizenship, Winston Felix and Minister within the Ministry of Social Protection, Keith Scott, ought not to sit in the National Assembly as technocrats because their names were on the list of candidates for a political party. The two were selected as Technocrat Ministers and became […]
Three local immigration officers and a security guard attached to Roraima Airways were on Friday charged and remanded to prison in connection with the discovery of a quantity of cocaine in the baggage hold of a Dynamic Airways jet which arrived at New York’s JFK Airport from Georgetown, Guyana. All four individuals pleaded not guilty […]
The Board of the Guyana Power and Light company has decided to fire the interim Chief Executive Officer of the company, Colin Welch. Two senior Government officials have confirmed the firing by the board and have indicated that the reason may have to do with recent decisions taken by the interim CEO regarding the awarding of […]
President David Granger met with United Nations Secretary General Ban-Ki-Moon on Friday morning in New York at the UN Headquarters, as Guyana continues to press for a judicial settlement to the border controversy with Venezuela. The UN Secretary General had set up an investigative team back in September of last year to look into the […]
People’s Progressive Party member and former Office of the President staffer under the PPP, Jason Abdulla was on Thursday Afternoon taken to two city hospitals after claiming that he was beaten by police investigators while in custody. Abdulla claimed that he was beaten on his feet by the police while being held and questioned about […]
The Government of Venezuela on Wednesday accepted the credentials of Guyana’s new Ambassador to Venezuela, Ms. Cheryl Miles. Guyana has been waiting several months for the acceptance. The acceptance came on the same day of the 50th Anniversary of the conclusion of the Geneva Agreement Britain and Venezuela as Guyana was moving towards becoming an […]
A total of $200 million has been set aside in the 2016 budget to retain legal consultants to help the government in its resistance to Venezuela’s claim to Guyana’s Essequibo Region and its oil rich maritime space. Foreign Affairs Minister Carl Greenidge made the clarification during the consideration of the 2016 estimates of expenditure for […]
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