By News Source Guyana on August 23, 2018
News, Politics
President David Granger and a Government team met this morning with a visiting delegation of US Congressmen and other US officials. The issues of Guyana’s emerging oil and gas sector as well as the border controversy with Venezuela were among the items that were discussed, according to a statement from the Ministry of the Presidency. […]
By News Source Guyana on August 23, 2018
News, Politics
Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo admitted on Thursday that he did not receive any request to meet with the team of US Congressmen who wrapped up a two-day visit to Guyana today, but he wants to know why there was so much “secrecy” surrounding the visit and the meetings with the Government. At a Thursday afternoon […]
By News Source Guyana on August 23, 2018
News, Politics
Two former Chiefs of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force will now be sitting on the Executive of the People’s National Congress Reform. Retired Rear Admiral Gary Best and Retired Brigadier Edward Collins have both been elected to the party’s Executive Committee. The two are among the new faces on the PNC’s highest decision making […]
By News Source Guyana on August 23, 2018
News, Politics
A US Congressional team is in Guyana on an official familiarsation visit. The visiting Congressmen held talks yesterday with Natural Resources Minister, Raphael Trotman. Today they will meet with President David Granger and are expected to depart later today. The US Embassy has been tightlipped about the visit, but the Government of Guyana has welcomed […]
By News Source Guyana on August 22, 2018
Crime, News
Loud screams of disbelief shattered the Wednesday quiet of Freeman Street, Georgetown when it was discovered that a security guard had stabbed his lover to death. Dead is 24-year-old Shanice Lawrence. She was discovered with a knife stuck in her neck. Her reputed husband, Jermaine Bristol, surrendered to the Police at the Brickdam Station after […]
By News Source Guyana on August 21, 2018
News, Politics
Over three hundred teachers in the mining town of Linden turned out at the LICHAS building at Mackenzie today to show their full support of the move by the Guyana Teachers Union to begin a nationwide strike action from next week. GTU President Mark Lyte and a team from the Union traveled to the community […]
By News Source Guyana on August 21, 2018
News
With the Government holding firm to ensuring a liberalised telecommunications sector by the end of this year, local telecommunications giant, GTT, says it is ready to embrace a liberalised environment. The company’s Chief Executive Officer, Justin Nedd, hosted a press conference this morning and said the process is moving forward and GTT is prepared for […]
By News Source Guyana on August 21, 2018
Crime, News
Police investigators are on the hunt for three men who carried out an early morning robbery on the owner of the Real Value Supermarket on Church Street. The owner lives above the supermarket and according to reports, it was just after 4 o’ clock that he was awakened from his sleep by one of the […]
By News Source Guyana on August 20, 2018
Crime, News
The Guyana Police Force today announced the arrest of an interdicted Cadet Officer of the Force who allegedly threatened his reputed wife to shoot her. Earlier this year, the man, Franz Paul, had a criminal charge against him dismissed when he compensated the victim and the victim no longer offered evidence against him. That victim […]
By News Source Guyana on August 20, 2018
News, Politics
Hours after being declared the new Chairperson of the People’s National Congress Reform, Public Health Minister Volda Lawrence, was back at her party’s headquarters to host the Congress of its women’s arm, the National Congress of Women. She spoke to News Source during the lunch break and laid out some of her plans for the […]