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Longtime APNU City Councillor and Former Deputy Mayor, Alfred Mentore was this morning elected Mayor of Georgetown replacing Pandit Ubraj Narine. New APNU Councillor, Denise Miller will now serve as the new Deputy Mayor. Both Mentore and Miller received the full backing of their party when the new Councilors were sworn into office and met […]
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will arrive in Guyana tomorrow morning for a whirlwind one-day visit, during which he will hold discussions with the President and other members of the Government on a number of issues. Mr. Blinken’s visit follows his attendance today at the CARICOM Heads of Government meeting in Trinidad and Tobago. […]
As Guyana inches closer to its Fourth Mutual Evaluation by the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF), the Government is moving to further amend the country’s Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Legislation, to strengthen the State’s ability to forfeit the assets of criminals as well as the proceeds of crime. The Attorney […]
Women’s Rights organisation, Red Thread is calling for an independent investigation into the circumstances that resulted in a 16-year-old girl issuing a “no further action’ statement to the police, after initially accusing the now former Local Government Minister, Nigel Dharamlall of rape and sodomy. The disgraced Minister tendered his resignation on Tuesday, according to the […]
Guyana’s temporary suspension from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) has been lifted, and the Government has welcomed the move. The country was suspended over its failure to submit its 4th report on the extractive industries in a timely manner. In accordance with the EITI Standard, it was agreed that the suspension would be lifted […]
The main parliamentary opposition party, the APNU, has hammered President Irfaan Ali’s statement accepting the resignation of his embattled Minister of Local Government Nigel Dharamlall, stating that the President never expressed any concern for the child, who made the rape allegations against his Minister. In a statement this morning, the APNU said the President expressed […]
President Irfaan Ali has announced that his embattled Minister of Local Government, Nigel Dharamlall has tendered his resignation as a Minister and a Member of Parliament, and he has accepted the resignation. Dharamlall had been accused of sexually assaulting a teenage schoolgirl. He had denied the allegation. The announcement of Dharamlall’s resignation came hours after […]
Days after the 16-year-old school girl who filed a rape complaint against Minister of Local Government Nigel Dharamlall asked the Police to no longer proceed with the matter, the Director of Public Prosecutions has advised the police that in the absence of the victim’s complaint, there is no legal provision for the Police to continue […]
Less than 35% of the more than 540,000 registered voters went to the polls during the just concluded Local Government Elections – resulting in the country experiencing its lowest voter turnout rate this year of the last three local elections. The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) disclosed that only 188,856 persons or 34.97% of the registered […]
One year after Eccles resident, Andrew Morgan was arrested when CANU found more than 7 pounds of cocaine at his home, he has been found guilty on the drug trafficking charges. The guilty verdict was handed down today by Magistrate Sunil Scarce, however, sentencing will take place after a probation report is received by the […]
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