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The Venezuelan man who is accused of beating a Venezuelan miner to death during a row over raw gold was charged today with murder and remanded to jail. 21-year-old, Osorio Dominguez of Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela appeared before Senior Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus today and was not required to enter a plea to the indictable murder […]
Region 4 Chairman Daniel Seeram and Opposition Member of Parliament Roysdale Forde are among the members of the People’s National Congress Reform who will be added to the party’s Central Executive Committee. Both Seeram and Forde ran for executive positions at the party’s recent elections and lost their bids. However, the party’s constitution allows the […]
A post-mortem examination that was conducted on the bodies of husband and wife, Nicholas and Elisabeth Low-A-Chee has confirmed that they both died from the gunshot wounds that were discovered on their bodies. The Guyana Police Force revealed today that the wife was shot to the head and abdomen while the husband was shot just […]
The new Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform, Aubrey Norton, has written to former Party Leader David Granger requesting that he surrenders the position of leader of the list for the APNU+AFC. The leader of the list has the power to make changes to the party’s parliamentary representatives. It is unclear whether Granger has […]
The number of active COVID-19 cases in Guyana has jumped to 4,295 with 847 of those cases recorded in the past 24hrs. The Ministry of Health has also recorded two additional deaths from the virus. More than half of the new cases are young people between the ages of 25 and 39-years-old. It was also […]
Officials of the Guyana Power and Light Company and union representatives from NAACIE met today with the Chief Labour Officer as attempts begin to reach a settlement for salary increases for the GPL workers. The Power Company has been complaining that its current financial situation does not allow any increases to be granted, but the […]
The Ministry of Health today announced the appointment of Ministerial Advisor on Health, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy as the new Chairman of the Georgetown Public Hospital. He has replaced Dr. Madan Rambarran. In its statement announcing the appointment of the new Board of Directors, it was also revealed that Robbie Rambarran is the new Chief Executive […]
Opposition Members of Parliament today again called out the Government for its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic but more particularly its decision to reopen schools when the virus spread is surging. During a press conference today Opposition Members of Parliament Dr. Karren Cummings, Dr. Nicolette Henry and Ganesh Mahipaul opined that the Government’s decision to […]
An early morning fire gutted an empty house in Prashad Nagar and scorched two other houses nearby. The Fire Service was summoned to the blaze at 91 Premniranjati Street Prashad Nagar at around 3 o’clock this morning. When the Fire Service arrived at the scene, the two-story wooden and concrete house was already completely engulfed […]
A 35-year-old woman and her 6-year-old daughter lost their lives after their small wooden house collapsed, pinning them under the rubble. The incident took place on Wednesday afternoon in Lower Bonasika Creek in Essequibo. The dead woman has been identified as Seematie Chandra who worked as a farmer in the area. Her daughter’s name has […]
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