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Monthly Archives: April 2013

Bad taxi drivers, services face blacklisting

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:02 by GxMedia Taxi drivers can be blacklisted and services named and shamed if they violate a new code of ethics inked between the Ministry of Tourism and the Guyana Taxi Association, officials said at the weekend.

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APNU wants CARICOM to recommit support for Guyana’s sovereignty

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:02 by GxMedia APNU parliamentarian Deborah Backer has called on the government to ensure CARICOM remains firmly in Guyana’s corner on the border dispute with Venezuela in light of the political uncertainty in Caracas following President Hugo Chavez’s death. Her call came on Friday as debate on the 2013 budget estimates continued in ...

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Red Dragon owner charged with Trafficking in Persons

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:02 by GxMedia The owner of Red Dragon Night Club was Friday granted bail for allegedly trafficking in one Brazilian female. Raymond “Clement’ Ali,61, of  15 Delhi Street, Prashad Nagar Selwyn “Selly” Lewis of Nutmeg Street, Festival City, Georgetown are accused of keeping a female juvenile for the purpose of exploitation. The female’s name is ...

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Policeman charged with beating illegal miners

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:02 by GxMedia A Police Corporal was Friday charged with four counts of assault allegedly committed on several persons who had blocked lawmen and Mines Officers from entering Marudi where there are a number of illegal gold miners.

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Target males to counter domestic violence – APNU’s Lawrence

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:02 by GxMedia Men and boys should be the primary targets of initiatives to counter domestic violence, APNU parliamentarian Volda Lawrence says. Joining the budget debate on Thursday, Lawrence, who holds the shadow portfolio for human services, said she believed that women and girls were now an “endangered species.”

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Elderly Briton dies after swim

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:02 by GxMedia An elderly British national has died after he went swimming at the Pegasus Hotel, police say. A release from the Guyana Police Force identified the man as Julian Dere, 77.

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