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The Guyana Police Force is on the hunt for the driver of a motor pick-up vehicle who abandoned the vehicle leaving several parcels of cocaine behind. The incident occurred on Friday at Five Miles along the Ituni Trail in the Upper Demerara River area. The abandoned cocaine weighs 72.1 pounds, according to a Police statement. […]
The Guyana Together campaign, which was launched as a grassroots effort to increase acceptance levels among Guyanese and to reduce the level of stigma and prejudice for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, is celebrating its third anniversary. So far, the movement has benefited in support from 250 organisational endorsers who have pledged support for […]
With One Communications preparing to shut down its 2G network at the end of October, it is continuing its push for customers with those old cell phones that can only work on the 2G network, and those persons with 2G sims in their phones to upgrade before they are left without service. As part of […]
The Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA) will return to Guyana in 2027, the Government of Guyana has announced. Earlier this week, Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Charles Ramson Jr, and Minister within the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, Steven Jacobs, met and held discussions with the CARICOM Secretary General, Dr. Carla Barnett and […]
In an extraordinary move this afternoon, the Guyana Police Force issued a statement to “clarify” media reports on the testimony of Head of the Force’s Special Branch, Senior Superintendent Prem Narine. Giving evidence in the ongoing extradition case against businessmen Nazar and Azruddin Mohamed on Thursday, Senior Superintendent Narine admitted to destroying a notebook that […]
The Opposition, A Partnership for National Unity, (APNU), is taking the Government to task over the frequent power outages that have been plaguing parts of the country over the past few weeks, declaring that the power supply problem exposes poor planning and incompetence. At a press conference today, APNU Member of Parliament Sherod Duncan said […]
A 76-year-old bottle supply contractor was crushed to death by a truck at the Banks DIH headquarters at Thirst Park on Thursday, becoming the latest work place tragedy. The dead man has been identified as Gobin Persaud, who was a resident of Triumph on the East Coast of Demerara. Persaud was reportedly making a delivery […]
The Full Court has upheld a High Court decision to grant an injunction barring Banks DIH Holding Inc from implementing a 15% cap on shareholder voting power. The decision was handed down by Justice Peter Hugh and Justice Priscilla Chandra-Hanif in the Full Court on Thursday in the case – Banks DIH Holdings Inc vs. […]
The back-and-forth over the legality of the Kara Kara commercial toll in Linden is continuing, with Linden Town Clerk Lennox Gasper saying he cannot comply with a directive from the Town Council to reopen the toll station because of legal and administrative issues. Earlier this week, the Linden Mayor and Town Council directed the immediate […]
More than 30 persons are now jobless following the massive fire that ripped through Regent Household Electronics on Wednesday afternoon. One day after the blaze, the owner of the mega store, Shaheed Hamid, along with many of his employees, returned to the scene as firefighters continued to douse the rubble. Hamid did not speak to […]
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