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The decomposed headless body of a young baby was discovered this morning floating in the Five-Door Koker canal in Land of Canaan. A Police report said the make child is suspected to be between 2-3 weeks old in age. The body was discovered by a group of persons who were walking close to the koker […]
A US-based Guyanese man who was home in Linden for the holidays appeared in Court today and was charged for being in possession of a firearm and ammunition without a license and dangerous driving. The 36-year-old man, Colin Benjamin appeared before Magistrate Wanda Fortune and pleaded not guilty to all of the charges. He was […]
President Irfaan Ali has signed the controversial Natural Resource Fund Bill into law as well as the Local Content Bill. Both pieces of legislation are related to the management of the oil and gas sector in Guyana. The President assented to the Natural Resource Fund Bill yesterday. There was no announcement of the signing of […]
The Government continues to defend the controversial Natural Resource Fund Bill and has started a major public relations drive to justify the Bill and its contents. Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat lashed out this afternoon at the Civil Society groups that called for the passage of the Bill to be delayed. He said those […]
The Opposition is holding firm to its position that the Natural Resource Fund Bill could not have been legally passed in the National Assembly since the Mace was not in its place when the Speaker called for a vote on the controversial legislation during last evening’s sitting. The Mace was grabbed from its position by […]
The Personal Assistant to the Speaker of the National Assembly, Ean McPherson, has filed a complaint with the Ethnic Relations Commission against Opposition Member of Parliament, Maureen Philadelphia. It was McPherson who grabbed the Mace of the Assembly from the Opposition MPs after they grabbed it from its holding place in the National Assembly in […]
Describing the protests by the Opposition inside the National Assembly yesterday as “hooliganism”, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry has issued a call for those Members who disrupted the parliamentary sitting to be “dealt with condignly”. In a statement, the GCCI condemned the Opposition’s protest and the behaviour of some Opposition Members of Parliament […]
Three days after a wanted bulletin was issued for his arrest, West Ruimveldt teenager Ezekiel Hawker was arrested in Suriname and handed over to local authorities. The 18-year-old was wanted for the murder of Albouystown resident Deon Charles on Christmas Eve night in Alboystown. A police statement said law enforcement agencies in Suriname were asked […]
Speaker of the National Assembly Manzoor Nadir called a press conference this morning to declare that the controversial Natural Resource Fund Bill was “legally and lawfully” passed in the National Assembly last evening during its chaotic sitting. “I want to make it pellucid that the Bill was passed lawfully, legally last evening in the National […]
Following Wednesday’s chaotic sitting of the National Assembly at which the Speaker’s Mace was removed from its place by an Opposition Member, the Government and Opposition are now haggling over whether the controversial Natural Resource Fund Bill was legally passed. In a statement after the sitting, the Opposition APNU+AFC said the Natural Resource Fund Bill […]
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