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Guyana has recorded 47 additional COVID-19 cases and one more death. The total number of deaths now stands at 49. According to the Ministry of Health, the latest fatality is a 65-year-old man from Region Four. He passed away in the hospital. There are now 14 persons in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit. The total […]
The Opposition has issued a call for Commissioner on the Ethnic Relations Commission, Roshan Khan to be removed from the post. The call comes in wake of Mr. Khan’s call via a Facebook post for indo-Guyanese to arm themselves in the Berbice region. His statement was made on Wednesday in the height of widespread protests […]
Opposition Leader Joe Harmon on Thursday said President Irfaan Ali’s statement in an address to the nation that children were being raped at the West Berbice protests are false and were meant to stir and incite hate. In his address to the nation on Wednesday, the President claimed that persons including children had been raped […]
With a plan to be tough on crime and to modernize the country’s crime-fighting capabilities, the Government is allocating $38.9 Billion in the budget to aid the security sector. In the budget presentation, Public Works Minister, Bishop Juan Edghill said additional resources will be deployed to improve investigative and forensic capabilities and provide equipment, facilities […]
With no reason given, the recently elected PPP Civic administration has terminated the services of the General Counsel at the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority, Amanza Walton-Desir. Walton-Desir received her termination letter last Thursday, two days after she took the oath as a Member of Parliament for the APNU+AFC. The Attorney was actually hired at the […]
While boycotting yesterday’s budget presentation, Opposition Leader Joe Harmon led a group of APNU+AFC Members of Parliament to the West Berbice area yesterday morning where they met with the family of the two cousins who were brutally murdered on Sunday. During a meeting with the mother of one of the young men, Mr. Harmon said […]
Police investigators in the Essequibo Coast community of Golden Fleece have arrested a man over the stabbing death of his ex-girlfriend over a telephone call she received. 24-year-old, Supenaam resident, Lunisa Peters was attacked by the ex-boyfriend who was at her house late last night when she received a phone call from another man. The […]
A Mahaicony porknocker who was working in the Konawaruk Backdam at Whitewater Mountain was crushed to death on Wednesday by falling rocks. The dead miner has been identified as 59-year-old Donston John aka Rambo. According to a Police statement, John and a colleague were working along with two other punters when while working at the […]
President Irfaan Ali has announced that he will be seeking the help of the British Government and the Regional Security Service to assist local police in their probe of the murders on the West Coast of Berbice which have triggered widespread protests in several villages. “In consultation with the Guyana Police Force, I have engaged […]
A 34-year-old man was beaten to death this afternoon at Bath Settlement after he left his car with a shotgun and fired shots at protesters who were less than 200 feet away. The Police Force has identified the dead man as 34-year-old Chatterpaul Harripaul aka Roy. The Police statement said that at around 3:45pm today, […]
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