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A cameraman and a driver attached to the Leader of the Opposition, Azruddin Mohamed, remain in Police custody this morning after being arrested late yesterday afternoon on the West Coast of Demerara on suspicion of operating a drone in the Leonora area, where the President has his private home. The Opposition Leader denied that there […]
Faced with a financial crisis following the Government’s decision to remove the toll charged to commercial vehicles entering the town of Linden, the Linden Town Council has proposed a 50% reduction in the tolls as it fights to get one of the town’s main revenue streams re-instituted. Mayor of Linden, Dominique Blair and a team […]
Hours after the Mayor of Linden cited the Linden Town Council By-laws that were gazetted in 2016 and allowed for the collection of tolls from commercial vehicles entering the town of Linden, Minister of Local Government, Priya Manickchand revoked those By-laws and quickly gazetted the move. In her initial letter instructing the Linden Town Clerk […]
Amerindian Heritage Month opened on Tuesday evening with a word of caution from President Irfaan Ali to the country’s Amerindian population. In his address at the ceremonial launch of Amerindian Heritage Month, the President said indigenous peoples of the country must be careful of those who appear during crisis only to exploit, in pursuit of […]
The Chinese Embassy in Guyana has rejected what it described as “false claims” and politically motivated criticism by a U.S. State Department official concerning projects undertaken by Chinese companies in Guyana. Assistant US Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Juan Pablo Segura, has flagged the airport construction project as one delayed by years and overrun […]
The State of Guyana, through the Attorney General, has filed its formal defense against civil claims stemming from the May 2023 Mahdia School dorm fire, denying any liability over the deaths. In its defense filed by Attorney General Anil Nandlall, the Government is denying all allegations of negligence or Constitutional violations contained in the lawsuit, […]
Opposition Member of Parliament for the We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) party, Natasha Singh and her husband, Shane Fordyce, have been instructed to report to the Diamond Police Station next Tuesday as investigations into the illegal possession of a firearm continues. MP Singh and her husband were arrested on Tuesday night after Police investigators found […]
The High Court has awarded $1 Million in damages plus Court costs to former Assistant Commissioner of Police and former Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Paul Slowe, after finding that his Constitutional right to personal liberty was violated during an arrest at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court back in 2021. In a judgment this week, […]
Following the detention of a go-fast boat belonging to Opposition Leader Azruddin Mohamed, the Maritime Administration Department has indicated that the boat is unlicensed and Mr. Mohamed is also not licensed to be operating a vessel. In its statement this afternoon, MARAD said based on its records, neither the fast craft nor Mr. Azruddin Mohamed […]
Residents of Chinese Landing – an Indigenous Carib village in Region One – have blocked a number of heavy duty machines from entering their village as they confront the issue of unapproved mining on their lands. In 2023, the Government temporarily halted all mining activities in Chinese Landing in direct response to a series of […]
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