By News Source Guyana on August 6, 2018
News, Politics
One day after the Alliance For Change announced that it will be breaking away from its coalition partner, the APNU, to contest the upcoming Local Government Elections, the Chairman of the APNU and PNC Leader, President David Granger does not appear too worried about the move. Speaking to reporters early this morning at a commemoration […]
By News Source Guyana on August 6, 2018
News
Although Sunday night’s small blaze at the Pegasus Hotel was restricted to one of the hotel’s kitchen, the incident has raised serious questions about fire safety at the posh Georgetown Hotel. era Several guests said the hotel does not appear to have a working fire alarm system since even as the lobby and some floors […]
By News Source Guyana on August 5, 2018
News, Politics
The Alliance For Change on Sunday announced that it will contest the upcoming Local Government Elections on November 12 on its own and not as part of the APNU+AFC Coalition. The party is blaming “inconclusive negotiations” with APNU and the reason for its decision. However, the party was quick to point out that the go […]
By News Source Guyana on August 5, 2018
Caribbean & International, News, Politics
Guyanese Manufacturers are being encouraged to seek remedies within the Courts for any prejudice they experience under the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas when seeking to access regional markets. The advice came from the recently installed President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Justice Adrian Saunders and it came minutes after President of the Guyana […]
By News Source Guyana on August 5, 2018
News, Politics
In a show of unity, close to 100 Christian Leaders in Guyana added their names to a call on the Government to keep laws that criminalise buggery in place. The group of church leaders took out a full page advertisement in the Sunday’s newspapers with their names and churches attached and made known their objection […]
By News Source Guyana on August 4, 2018
Crime, News
The owner of the Tourist Villa hotel in Fifth Street, Subryanville is in Police custody after he shot his neighbour, 30-year-old, Jason De Florimonte (in photo above) dead this morning. The dead man was shot four times to the body. According to a Police statement, at around 1:45 this morning, the now deceased man and […]
By News Source Guyana on August 4, 2018
Crime, News
Police investigators in the lower Pomeroon area are probing the murder of a 73-year-old man in his own home. The dead man has only been identified as Deonarine, who is known to villagers as “Russian”. According to a Police statement, the Friday night killing took place just after the elderly man and his 46-year-old girlfriend […]
By News Source Guyana on August 3, 2018
Crime, News
Two prisoners who are on remand at the Lusignan Prison for murder are under extra security after prison officials unearthed a plan being made by the two men to escape from the prison. According the Acting Director of Prisons, Gladwin Samuels, prison officers on duty were able to disrupt the escape plan over the past […]
By News Source Guyana on August 3, 2018
News, Politics
The Guyana Water Incorporated today announced that it has seen an increase in revenues collected for the first half of 2018, when compared to the same period last year. Revenue collected for the six-month period is up from $1.8 billion to $2 billion, GWI’s Managing Director Dr. Richard Van West Charles announced. But even with […]
By News Source Guyana on August 3, 2018
Crime, News
The Guyana Police Force has launched an investigation into the murder of 21-year-old, Ronsely Clarke, of 181 Timehri, EBD. The shooting death occurred around 7:30 last night at ‘C’ Field Access Road, Sophia allegedly by a man who was known to the deceased. The investigations have so far revealed that the victim was in company of […]