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Family members of the late Lallbachan Bachan are seeking an inquest to be carried out into the death of the man in the Suddie Police station lock-ups on the night of June 30. The family, through their Attorney Anil Nandlall, has written to the Police Commissioner, the Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority and the […]
Workers of the Guyana Goldfields company met this morning with the Chief Labour Officer and other representatives from the Labour Department. During the meeting at the Aurora mines, the workers raised several complaints from working hours to concerns of severance packages if the company changes its mine operations management. During the meeting, the workers also […]
Having failed to get the Full Court to put a stay on a High Court Judge’s order for the Finance Minister to pay up a judgment against the Government or face jail time, the Attorney General has now taken the matter to the Court of Appeal. The case is related to the awarding of judgment […]
The Ministry of Public Infrastructure is moving ahead with the construction of a tarmac for a market and parking lot in the Diamond community. The contract for the project has been awarded. According to the Ministry, the contract was awarded to Bardon Construction Service for a sum of fifty-seven million, and one hundred and eighty-eight […]
Representatives of President David Granger and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo are scheduled to meet this afternoon to begin “hammering” out the process for the official submission of nominees for the position of GECOM Chairman. Public Health Minister Volda Lawrence, Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan and Director General of the Ministry of the Presidency Joe Harmon […]
Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo through his party’s executive member, Gail Teixeira, has put forward the names of eleven persons who were previously rejected by the President for consideration for the GECOM Chairman’s job. The eleven are retired Major General Joe Singh, retired Major General Normal McLean, retired Judges BS Roy and William Ramlall, Private Sector […]
Police investigators are probing the murder of a 21-year-old labourer of Kaneville on the East Bank of Demerara. He has been identified as Mervin Squires. He was stabbed to his chest yesterday morning and pronounced dead at the Diamond Hospital. A 17-year-old youth has been held for the murder. Initial reports state that the two […]
The Guyana Goldfields company today announced that the strike by some of its workers has ended at the Aurora mine and the company is restarting its operations in full. The strike went on for three days with the workers pressing the company to look into several of their concerns. Some of those concerns centred around […]
One year shy of officially becoming a pensioner, 64-year-old, Bent Street resident, Joseph Allen found himself before the Courts today facing illegal gun and ammunition charges. He pleaded guilty to the charges and received a two year suspended sentence on each charge. The elderly man appeared before the Chief Magistrate this morning and pleaded guilty […]
There was a Charlestown man who stole a motorcycle and he stole that motorcycle to buy a new horse. He got jail time instead. The 20-year-old, Ken Das, appeared before Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus today and admitted to stealing a motorcycle worth $180,000. Das told the Magistrate that he is a horse cart operator but was […]
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