By News Source Guyana on July 24, 2015
News, Politics
President David Granger has once again utilized an international platform to raise the threat neighboring Venezuela is posing to its sovereignty and said it has become a burden that is too much to bear for a country with fewer than one million people to bear. The Guyanese Head of State was delivering the commencement address […]
By News Source Guyana on July 24, 2015
News, Politics
Public Servants must utilize their vacation leave during the year of entitlement or they will lose it, according to the Minister of State, Joseph Harmon. The minister said the government is being faced with a situation where several public servants are proceeding on hundreds of days of accumulative leave. He said some of these persons hold […]
By News Source Guyana on July 24, 2015
Elections, News, Politics
The former Attorney General of Guyana, Anil Nandlall is having “serious introspection” about whether he should continue serving the Guyanese public through political office. Mr. Nandlall was forced to call a press conference yesterday to clear his name after his former bodyguard was arrested in connection with the murder of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing. He […]
By News Source Guyana on July 23, 2015
News, Politics
Fifty of the sixty-two staffers of the government’s One Laptop Per Family programme have received letters of dismissal as funding for the project has dried up and as the new administration is seeking to take the project in a new direction. The fifty staffers who were based at the Queenstown headquarters of the project received […]
By News Source Guyana on July 23, 2015
Elections, News, Politics
Former Attorney General of Guyana, Anil Nandlall this afternoon confirmed that one of the men currently in custody in connection with the murder of political activist, Courtney Crum-Ewing was indeed his personal bodyguard, but he claims he hired the man after Crum-Ewing’s death and fired him four days later. In a hastily called press conference […]
By News Source Guyana on July 23, 2015
Elections, News, Politics
The former bodyguard of former Attorney General Anil Nandlall has been arrested as the police widen their probe into the March 10, 2015 murder of political activist, Courtney Crum-Ewing. The former bodyguard has been identified as Rajput Narine. Although he worked as the bodyguard for the former Attorney General, he has been in the employ […]
By News Source Guyana on July 22, 2015
Elections, News, Politics
The opposition People’s Progressive Party late Wednesday evening issued a statement denying its involvement or that of any of its members in the March 10 shooting death of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing. The PPP’s statement comes in wake of statements by former murder accused and self confessed member of the former death squad Sean Hinds, […]
By News Source Guyana on July 22, 2015
Elections, News, Politics
Self confessed former member of a death squad, Sean Hinds believes the Guyana Police Force may need to look among some of its former and retired officers if it wants to solve the murder of talk show host and political activist Ronald Waddell. Waddell was killed in a hail of gunfire in front of his […]
By News Source Guyana on July 22, 2015
Elections, News, Politics
One day after self confessed death squad member and former murder accused Sean Hinds, distanced himself from the murder of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing, the Guyana Police Force is indicating that while he is not wanted for the Crum-Ewing murder, he is wanted for questioning in relation to another serious offense. Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum […]
By News Source Guyana on July 22, 2015
News, Politics
Following revelations by former murder accused Sean Hinds that he was indeed a member of a death squad under the previous government, the new APNU+AFC Government made it clear today that it will not offer any state protection for the self-confessed death squad member. Minister of State Joseph Harmon told media operatives that Hinds’ recent revelations […]