Last Updated on Tuesday, 10 March 2015, 1:17 by GxMedia Guyana should be alert for increased Venezuelan sabre rattling over its claim to the Essequibo Region following Monday’s declaration by the United States’ (US) of that Spanish-speaking country as a national security threat, according to a University of the West Indies (UWI) Professor in International Relations. Senior Lecturer at the ...

Last Updated on Monday, 9 March 2015, 21:32 by GxMedia A Wakenaam man was hacked with a cutlass about his body during an altercation Saturday night on that Essequibo Island. His assailant was arrested Monday and taken off island by investigators. Police said 27-year old Lillvamnauth “Dinkey Boy” Dhairam was chopped about his body after he pursued his attacker twice ...

Last Updated on Monday, 9 March 2015, 21:12 by GxMedia A businessman was Monday robbed of GUY$2.5 million shortly before he was about to purchase a quantity of fuel from the Guyana Oil Company’s (GuyOi) fuel depot at Providence, East Bank Demerara, police said. The robbery victim, 58-year old Jaiprashad Ketwaroo of Canal Number Two, West Bank Demerara , told ...

Last Updated on Monday, 9 March 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia A woman, who routinely shipped vegetables to Canada, was Monday jailed for 56 months and fined more than GUY$11 million for trafficking cocaine in boulanger to that North American country. Bhanmattie “Lalita” Persaud of 460 Grass Field, Lusignan, East Coast Demerara was found guilty by City Magistrate Judy Latchman for ...

Last Updated on Monday, 9 March 2015, 18:57 by GxMedia Attorney-at-Law, Joel Persid-Edmond and his wife, former Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Edmond, have endorsed the opposition’s unity coalition for the 2015 general and regional elections. They were introduced to the public at a community meeting held Sunday at Fourth Street, Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara where residents were told about the importance ...

Last Updated on Monday, 9 March 2015, 3:51 by GxMedia The People’s Progressive Party Civic’s (PPPC) prime ministerial candidate, Ambassador Elisabeth Harper  Sunday joined other senior party functionaries in eyeing the prospects of regaining majority control of the National Assembly at the upcoming polls. “I believe in Guyana. I believe in service to Guyana and I wholeheartedly believe that, given ...

Last Updated on Monday, 9 March 2015, 3:21 by GxMedia The daughter of a top Finance Ministry official was killed Sunday afternoon when the vehicle she and her husband were in ran off a bridge into the Pirara Creek. Her husband, who was driving the vehicle at the time of the mishap, was injured and he was flown to the ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 8 March 2015, 23:23 by GxMedia The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) on Sunday sought to invoke historical hatred for the People’s National Congress (PNC) administration, saying that its name-change over the years and plans to have vice presidents smack of “Burnhamism”. Addressing party faithful at Babu John, Port Mourant, fomer President Bharrat Jagdeo scoffed at plans ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 8 March 2015, 16:07 by GxMedia At about 0100h. today Sunday March 08, 2015, Jermain Giles, 35 years, of Barnwell North, Mocha, EBD, was awakened by a noise at his door, police said. He opened a window to check and was shot to his head in the process. Two men entered the house through the open ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 8 March 2015, 13:03 by GxMedia After wreaking havoc in the Essequibo village of Mashabo, Region Two,for the past two months, a jaguar was shot dead Sunday morning. Residents there said they could now breathe a sigh of relief after villager, Sydney Williams, shot the animal dead by using a gun trap.’ Since mid-January, the jaguar ...