By News Source Guyana on February 4, 2015
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Guyana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett has announced that she has written to the Honorary Consul in Trinidad and Tobago Ernie Ross requesting that he explains his alleged possible involvement in the scandal that led to the Trinidadian Prime Minister firing her Attorney General and the Minister of National Security. The Guyana Foreign Minister […]
By News Source Guyana on February 4, 2015
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Former President of Guyana Bharrat Jagdeo, who is currently overseas, has asked the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) government to clarify that he is not interested in being elected to a third term in office. That request came in response to a writ which was filed in the High Court on Monday challenging the two […]
By News Source Guyana on February 4, 2015
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24-year-old Vishnu Singh was slapped with rape charges on Wednesday morning when he appeared at the Sparendaam Magistrates Court. He was granted bail in the sum of $400,000. The charges stem from his alleged sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl. The Better Hope, East Coast Demerara man, who is the son of the head of […]
By News Source Guyana on February 4, 2015
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Family members of the missing Air Services pilot Nicky Persaud and cargo loader David Bisnauth are not giving up hope that they could still find their remains and bring the two men home. The two have been presumed dead after their Britten Norman Islander aircraft bearing registration 8R-GHE disappeared without a trace while it was heading […]
By News Source Guyana on February 4, 2015
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The University of Guyana has issued a warning to striking staff members that money will be deducted from their salaries as they continue to stay away from the classrooms during their sit in protest action. In a memo to staff members and their union, the University administration made it clear that the deductions could be […]
By News Source Guyana on February 3, 2015
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The Guyana Police Force on Tuesday issued a wanted bulletin for 29-year-old Kenroy Anthony Augustus Joseph whose last known address is 69 D’Anrade Street, Newtown Kitty. The man is the former personal assistant to the Junior Agriculture Minister. He is wanted in connection with last Friday’s cocaine bust at the Cheddi Jagan Airport which resulted […]
By News Source Guyana on February 3, 2015
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The United States government on Tuesday afternoon delivered at least 26 Guyanese deportees on a special chartered flight which landed at the Cheddi Jagan Airport just after 3 o’ clock. The deportees were welcomed back to the land of their birth by heavily armed members of the Tactical Services Unit of the Guyana Police Force. […]
By News Source Guyana on February 3, 2015
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Teachers at the Mackenzie High School in Linden walked out of their classrooms again on Tuesday as they continued their protest action over the absence of working washroom and other facilities at the school. Students of the school were told to stay at home for a second day on Tuesday as the teachers moved their protest […]
By News Source Guyana on February 3, 2015
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(Antigua Observer) A relative of the country’s latest road fatality victim, Carolin Tobin-John-Baptiste, said her family was thrown into shock on Sunday night when they received the news she had been struck down while crossing All Saints Road. John-Baptiste’s elder daughter Besseyoud Gouveia-Jones said her 46-year-old mother resided with her in Briggins and at the […]
By News Source Guyana on February 3, 2015
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Scores of students at the University of Guyana Turkeyen Campus began widespread protest action on Tuesday morning by blocking the entrance to the campus. The students have been pressing the University’s administration to improve the conditions at the campus. The protest comes at a time when University of Guyana staff members are on strike pressing […]