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Leader of the Alliance for Change and former Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan expressed shock and said he is appalled by the way investigators are treating persons it has held for questioning in the electoral fraud probe. During an AFC virtual press conference this midday, Mr. Ramjattan said while it is important for the […]
An apparent row over the ownership of rice lands is believed to have been the cause of a kidnapping and murder of a Canadian national, which today resulted in three men being charged before the Courts. Appearing before Magistrate Alex Moore this morning were suspected mastermind of the crime, rice farmer Moonasar Beharry called “Brickhead” […]
The number of deaths from coronavirus in Guyana climbed by 1 today to 32 as the country also recorded 47 new cases. The latest COVID-19 fatality has been identified as a 52-year-old man who passed away in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at the Georgetown Hospital. He reportedly had underlying conditions. The 47 new cases […]
The recently announced plan by the Minister of Housing to revoke land allocations that were made by the last government between January and July is coming in for criticism from the APNU+AFC Coalition. In a recent meeting, Minister Collin Croal announced that persons who were allocated lands in the past seven months and benefitted from […]
General Secretary of the APNU and presumptive Leader of the Opposition, Joe Harmon, has written to the United Nations, the OAS, the Commonwealth and a number of other international organisations and countries about the recently concluded elections in Guyana. In his letter, Mr. Harmon said that based on the vast amount of evidence and findings […]
Minister of Labour Joseph Hamilton has told officials of the ExxonMobil company that his Ministry will be pushing to ensure there is equal pay for local workers in the oil and gas sector and that they be allowed to join a union. Hamilton met on Wednesday with the President of ExxonMobil Guyana, Alistair Routledge and […]
Former Chairperson of the Working People’s Alliance, Tabitha Sarabo-Halley will be taking up the seat that has already been allocated to her as part of the APNU+AFC Coalition but she will be doing so as an “independent” member of the coalition. The former Public Service Minister resigned from the Working People’s Alliance earlier this week […]
The opening of the 12th Parliament is set for early next week at the Arthur Chung Convention Centre where all parliamentary sittings will be held because of COVID-19 concerns. President Irfaan Ali is set to address the new Parliament just after the swearing-in of new members and the selection of a Speaker. The PPP is […]
Cuban national Yuri Garcia-Dominguez and his Guyanese wife, Ateeka Ishmael were taken before two Courts this morning to face conspiracy to commit a felony charges related to their operation of the Accelerated Financial Capital company. The two were arrested last weekend after the Attorney General Anil Nandlall announced the launch of a multi-agency investigation into […]
More than one hundred persons gathered outside the Vigilance Magistrates’ Court this morning in support of Cuban businessman Yuri Garcia and his Guyanese wife Ateeka Ishmael who have been accused of financial fraud related to a suspected ponzi scheme. While the couple was ushered into the compound to await their Court appearance, the large crowd […]
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