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A row between a gambler and a gaming center employee turned deadly on Wednesday night in Bartica when the gambler was beaten to the head with a hammer and died. A Police statement said, the gambler, 40-year-old Mark Braithwaite was a regular at the Gaming Facility in Bartica. On Wednesday night, he was scolded about […]
Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall is defending President Irfaan Ali’s decision to extend Mr Clifton Hicken’s tenure as Acting Commissioner of Police, pointing out that there is nothing unconstitutional about the extension. “I wish to confirm, in my humble and respectful view that His Excellency, the President complied with the Constitution […]
President of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union, (GAWU) Seepaul Narine has confirmed to News Source that the week-long protest which gripped the sugar-belt in Berbice is being called off following an agreement to not transfer workers from the Albion and Blairmont estates back to the Rose Hall estate. The sugar workers who were […]
General Secretary of the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF), Sue Longley has flagged the increasing use of contract workers in Guyana, even as she lobbied those in the budding Oil and Gas Sector to become unionized. Longley – the first female General Secretary of the IUF […]
The Rose Hall town in Berbice has been plunged into mourning with the double murder of a woman and her son. The bodies of Melissa Arokium and her son Anthony Arokium were found in their Rose Hall home this midday with multiple chop wounds. The bodies were discovered by a brother of the dead woman, […]
-by Svetlana Marshall- Declaring that the Government will not walk away from sugar, President Irfaan Ali declared today that his Administration is prepared to bring in experts from Guatemala and India to help with the management of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo). “We are talking with India, with Guatemala to find the technical support service […]
In a step up from previous attempts to smuggle marijuana into the prisons, two persons were nabbed in separate smuggling attempts and will now face the Courts on marijuana trafficking and smuggling charges. In one incident, there was an attempt to smuggle marijuana into one of the prisons in the soles of slippers, while another […]
The Mahdia School Dorm Fire Commission of Inquiry will travel to Mahdia, and other neighbouring villages on Wednesday to conduct a familiarization visit. In a press briefing today at the COI Secretariat, Secretary to the Commission Javed Shaddick, explained that the visit is not intended to facilitate public hearings, but to have an assessment of […]
Officials of Caribbean Airlines have indicated that the airline’s services to many of its destinations are returning to a state of normalcy, even in the height of ongoing complaints from affected passengers. The airline announced today that many of its flights were back on schedule, although the ferrying out of the affected passengers was ongoing, […]
Tributes poured in today for longstanding member of the People’s Progressive Party, former Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Roger Luncheon. Dr. Luncheon, who served every PPP government since 1992, died on August 2 after a period of illness. At the time of his passing, he was employed at the Office of the President as an advisor. In […]
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