By News Source Guyana on June 19, 2013
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Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang has ruled that Leader of the Opposition David Granger be excluded from the budget cuts trial since the Constitution of Guyana prevents any Member of Parliament from being sued. The Government of Guyana through the Attorney General had named The Speaker of the National Assembly, the Leader of the Opposition […]
By News Source Guyana on June 19, 2013
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Guyana will be sending a 50 member contingent to this year’s Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA) in neighbouring Suriname. The cultural delegation is expected to represent all aspects of Guyanese culture from music to dance, drama and literature. The Coordinator for the Guyana Carifesta team is Lennox Canterberry of the Ministry of Culture. He told […]
By News Source Guyana on June 19, 2013
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Chairperson of the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority, Bibi Shadick on Wednesday morning announced that a number of broadcasters have been granted approval by the GNBA to continue with their operations. Some others have been given more time to make their applications and provide additional documents. Shadick also announced today that both radio and television broadcasters […]
By News Source Guyana on June 19, 2013
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The Guyana Police Force is investigating another murder of a miner in the interior district of Cuyuni in Region 7. According to the police, 38-year-old Royston Greenidge of Kuru Kuru on the Linden Soesdyke Highway was beaten to death with a piece of wood by another miner on Tuesday at an area called Far Back […]
By News Source Guyana on June 18, 2013
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The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company on Tuesday afternoon confirmed that one of its staffers was killed in a horrific accident in the Mabura area in Region 10. The staffer has been identified as Trevon Morris and is believed to be a contract worker. Two other staffers were air dashed to Georgetown for medical treatment. […]
By News Source Guyana on June 18, 2013
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The Guyana Police has reported that a post-mortem examination which was performed on the body of soldier Akeem Sampson of Rewa Street, Lamaha Springs, Georgetown, by Pathologist Dr. Nehual Singh found that the man died from haemorrhage and shock due to fractured skull. Akeem Sampson’s body was found in his home at Lamaha Springs. Police now […]
By News Source Guyana on June 18, 2013
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The Ministry of Home Affairs on Monday handed over a multi million dollar training complex to the Guyana Police Force. The new facility is expected to boost the training of recruits and ranks with new equipment and more comfortable classrooms. But President Donald Ramotar wants the Police to pay a whole lot more attention to […]
By News Source Guyana on June 17, 2013
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With just Caribbean Airlines and Surinam Airways serving the Guyana and U.S markets, the Ministry of Tourism is hoping that Guyana could attract bigger names in the airline industry as there appears to be an upsurge in air travel. Tourism Minister Irfaan Ali told News Source that the travelling trend of persons flying to and […]
By News Source Guyana on June 16, 2013
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Police investigators are trying to figure out what may have been behind a home invasion by gunmen in the North Ruimveldt area on Saturday night that has left a 67-year-old man and his 31-year-old daughter in law, both hospitalised nursing gun shot wounds. According to police investigators, the incident occurred early on Saturday night just […]
By News Source Guyana on June 16, 2013
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A 37-year-old woman died early on Sunday morning in a fire that ripped through her home and two other houses in Victoria Road, Plaisance on the East Coast of Demerara. The woman has been identified as Suzanne Sylvia McNeil. According to her brother who was called from his East Bank home by relatives after they […]