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Guyana’s Minister of Transport, Robeson Benn has dismissed concerns that the Government of Guyana may be tainted because of the legal problems facing the Exec Jet Company which operated private jet service from Guyana. The owner of Exec Jet, Guyanese pilot Khamraj Lall is facing money smuggling charges in Puerto Rico after US$620,000 was found […]
Several pensioners in the Beterverwagting and nearby areas on the East Coast of Demerara were forced to go home empty-handed on Tuesday morning after gunmen attacked and robbed the Beterverwagting Post Office of millions of dollars in pension payments. The incident took place just after 9:30 am as the postal workers were processing the pension […]
The Government of Guyana through the Ministry of Home Affairs has donated the semi submersible cocaine carrying vessel which was found in Guyana to the US Authorities and is hoping that the United States will share any information it may be able to gather from its own investigations. The 63 foot long vessel was found […]
ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Less than two weeks after he was found guilty of rape and remanded to prison and 11 days before he was due to be sentenced, former school teacher Jaswick Jones collapsed and died at Her Majesty’s Prison. Jones was reportedly in the prison yard when he took ill and died shortly […]
US based airline Dynamic Airways has hired the services of Tagman Media Public Relations company in an effort to boost its image following a number of delays and problems since it restarted its service between Georgetown and New York last week. Tagman Media in a statement on Monday evening reported that the airline is looking […]
Drug pushers in Guyana are continuing their efforts to get the illegal drug out of Guyana and on the American market. Last Thursday, November 27, 2014 another Guyanese woman was busted with cocaine in her suitcases after arriving at New York’s JFK Airport from Guyana. The woman has been identified as Guyanese, Melissa Cox. She […]
The Guyanese businessman and pilot Khamraj Lall, who was charged in Puerto Rico for smuggling a large sum of cash was granted bail on Monday when he appeared before US Magistrate Judge Marcos E. Lopez in a Puerto Rican courtroom. However, as part of the granting of the bail, the businessman’s attorney requested that documents […]
Relatives of the Meteen-Meer-Zorg fisherman who died after being badly beaten up while in police custody, stepped up their protest action outside the office of the Commissioner of Police on Monday afternoon. The fisherman, Asif Raheem Khatoon, died last Thursday at home just a week after he was badly beaten while in the custody of […]
The governing People’s Progressive Party has announced its support of the 5% and 8% increases in wages and salaries for public servants across Guyana. Public servants earning more than $50,000 per month will get the 5% increase while those earning less than $50,000 per month will be given the 5% increase on their monthly salaries. […]
A Dynamic Airways flight to New York from Georgetown, Guyana was cancelled on Sunday night after the 767 aircraft veered off the runway and got stuck in mud during its taxi to take off from the Cheddi Jagan International Airport. Passengers were forced to leave the aircraft after it had to be pulled from the […]
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