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Hundreds of Lindeners gathered at the Mackenzie Sports Club this midday to bid farewell to former Mayor of Linden and former Regional Parliamentarian Abdul Kadir. Kadir passed away in a US Prison recently, where he was serving a life sentence on a terrorism conspiracy conviction. He had always maintained his innocence of the charge. At […]
In what is likely to be his last US Independence address as the United States Ambassador to Guyana, Mr. Perry Holloway on Wednesday said he believes the old contract signed with US Oil Giant, ExxonMobil is about the best that could be expected based on historic exploration results in Guyana at that time. Holloway also spoke about the […]
A 19-year-old woman who was nabbed with 119 cocaine pellets in her stomach was today sentenced to three years in jail and fined $1.4 million after pleading guilty to cocaine trafficking. The woman, Anisha Hardy of South Ruimveldt stood before the Chief Magistrate and admitted that on the 6th of July she had one and […]
The Guyana Water Inc. has assured that although tests have confirmed mercury levels higher than what is acceptable in samples of water taken in Port Kaituma, efforts are afoot to make available alternative access to potable water. GWI’s Managing Director Dr. Van West Charles told reporters on Tuesday that the water company has stopped pumping water in […]
Drama unfolded Tuesday morning within the Parliamentary Chambers as an anti bribery and corruption forum organized for members of the National Assembly got underway. Poorly attended by Government MPs, Opposition Parliamentarians turned out in their numbers and demanded the resignation of the facilitator, British Fraud Expert and Advisor to the Special Organized Crime Unit (SOCU) Sam Sittlington. […]
More than seven years after some $500 million was spent to develop a Continuously Operating Reference Station (CORS) Network in Guyana, the Government today said is now being forced to spend $93 million to repair a defunct system which was never operationalized. Commissioner of the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission Trevor Benn told reporters on Tuesday that […]
Police detectives have arrested a suspect as they continue their probe into the murder of a Campbellville Pandit and his son. Investigators were called to the man’s home at Delph Avenue. and Craig Street Campbellville yesterday morning where they discovered the bodies of the two men in a partly decomposed state. Both bodies reportedly bore […]
Five persons, including two Venezuelan lawyers and two Venezuelan pilots are being questioned about chartered aircraft that they used to fly into Guyana on Monday afternoon. It is suspected that the aircraft might have been using a false registration number and other false documents. The airplane arrived in Guyana just after 3 o’ clock on […]
Two days after a confrontation between two private security guards and the Minister within the Ministry of Natural Resources Simona Broomes and her driver, the Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence, has met with one of the security guards and has offered an apology. Lawrence’s meeting took place last evening at the same New Thriving […]
The Ministry of Public Infrastructure in a statement this afternoon said it is not contemplating any increases to the Berbice Bridge toll. In the statement through the Department of Public Information, the Government said it stands by its decision to reduce tolls in fulfilling a campaign commitment, and will continue to work with the Berbice […]
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