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Police investigators are on the hunt for a Pike Street, Sophia man, who is wanted for the stabbing death of a businessman from D’ Field, Sophia. The dead man has been identified as 48-year-old, Godfrey Phillips. A police statement said Phillips was locking up his shop just before midnight on Sunday, when he noticed that […]
General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party, Bharrat Jagdeo does not plan to step away from that position anytime soon and has indicated that he takes his job seriously as General Secretary. In an interview on Saturday just after the PPP elected Irfaan Ali as its Presidential Candidate, Mr. Jagdeo said one of his tasks […]
The Georgetown Public Hospital has announced that it has launched an investigation into the adverse reaction of a number of children who were cancer patients, to a particular medication that was administered to them. There are reports that two of the children died from complications after the medication was reportedly administered to them. The affected […]
The Opposition People’s Progressive Party may find itself doing damage control in the coming days as part of its efforts to support its Presidential Candidate, Irfaan Ali. There has been a firestorm of criticism on social media about the party’s central committee election of Ali to lead the PPP into the next elections. Many of […]
Before departing Cuba for Guyana on Saturday, President David Granger met with and held discussions with Cuban President, Miguel Diaz Canel Bermudez. According to a statement from the Guyana Embassy in Cuba, the discussions covered several areas, including relations between Guyana and Cuba and the United States and Cuba. “President Diaz Canel pointed out that […]
Newly elected PPP Presidential Candidate, Irfaan Ali, said he is “extremely humbled” with the party’s decision to pick him to lead it into the next election. Speaking with reporters outside Freedom House, hours after his election, the former Housing and Water Minister said his election shows that his party believes in youth and experience. He […]
With just two weeks remaining before the deadline date for applications for the Government’s Adequate Housing and Urban Accessibility Programme, the Central Housing and Planning Authority has decided to take the programme to the people, in an effort to get more people to apply. Today, the officials from the Department were in the Stabroek market […]
With the Opposition labeling the coalition government as a “caretaker’ government following the no-confidence motion and vote in the National Assembly, the administration is sticking to its point that there is nothing in the Constitution that caters for any caretaker government. “There is no provision in our Constitution that limits the exercise of the power […]
While not wanting to divulge details of the probe, Police Commissioner Leslie James on Friday morning said that the probe of former Member of Parliament Charrandass Persaud is related to the movement of gold out of Guyana and bribery. Persaud left Guyana for Canada, the morning after he voted along with the Opposition against his […]
Declaring that his party did not bribe former Member of Parliament, Charrandass Persaud to vote along with it during the no-confidence motion against the Government, PPP General Secretary and Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo, today said if there are concerns about the former MP being bribed, he would support an impartial investigation of the matter. Persaud […]
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