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Following the more than usual rainfall that drenched Guyana over the past two months, the National Hydromet Service is warning that the umbrellas should not be put away just yet. The Hydromet Service today announced that most of Guyana will experience rainy conditions throughout the month of July with the dry and sunny weather returning […]
Nine months after the brutal killing of Berbice teenager Haresh Singh in the #3 village backdam, four men were today charged and remanded to jail for the youth’s murder. The four men, 29-year-old Philip Anderson, 27-year-old Joel Gittens, 27-year-old Gladston Henry and 21-year-old Charles Scott appeared before Magistrate Peter Hugh at the Fort Wellington Magistrates’ […]
Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield, his Deputy Roxanne Myers and Returning Officer for Region 4 Clairmont Mingo appeared in Court this morning to face conspiracy to defraud charges related to last year’s elections. They were not required to enter a plea to the indictable charges and were granted $100,000 bail each. The last time the […]
The Attorney for the Police Service Commission Selwyn Pieters has written to President Irfaan Ali, indicating to him that the Commissioners will continue to discharge their function since his decision to suspend them is unlawful and illegal. In a letter sent today to the President, the attorney reminded that in his earlier show-cause notice, he […]
Within an hour after the Chief Justice threw out a challenge to the Police promotions list and the Police Service Commission issued its full list of promotions, the Irfaan Ali government rejected the promotions by the Police Service Commission, indicating that the list will be ignored. In a statement, the Attorney General said the issuance […]
Chief Justice Roxane George this afternoon dismissed a challenge to the promotions of a number of senior Police Officers to the rank of Assistant Commissioners, paving the way for the promotions to proceed. The Court matter was filed by Senior Superintendent of Police, Calvin Brutus who complained to the Court that the Police Service Commission […]
One month since the Ministry of Health announced that it had run out of 2nd dose shots of the Sputnik COVID-19 vaccine, it still has no definitive timeline on when the shipment of second dose vaccines will arrive. Thousands of persons are now entering their ninth week since they got the first dose and are […]
A police constable has been placed under close arrest after he was captured on camera physically assaulting a suspect by throwing him off his feet and dragging him on the concrete floor into the lock-up at the Wales Police Station. The incident took place on Friday night. The Guyana Police Force has described the incident […]
The Rupununi region continues to experience a steep increase in new Coronavirus cases. In the past seven days, Region 9 recorded 283 new cases of the virus, taking its total number of active cases to more than 350. With the region sharing its border with Brazil which continues to experience high COVID-19 numbers and deaths, […]
Just as Trinidad and Tobago was set to dispatch a shipment of flood relief items to Guyana, the Guyana Government informed the Government of Trinidad that it was not in need of many of the items that were about to be shipped. With several communities still under flood waters, Guyana had reached out to CARICOM […]
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