Last Updated on Wednesday, 15 April 2015, 21:48 by GxMedia GECOM, Georgetown, April 15, 2015 –An agreement was signed Wednesday by the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on the Electoral Observation Process of the 2015 General and Regional Elections. This agreement was compiled by the OAS. The signing took place when the OAS Chief ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 15 April 2015, 21:37 by GxMedia Rehabilitation of Guyana’s state-owned fibre-optic cable, which was first laid improperly,  has begun and should be completed before year-end, according to a senior official of the company that has been contracted to do the job. The official of Dax Engineering told Demerara Waves Online News that work began two weeks ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 15 April 2015, 20:24 by GxMedia The Guyana government on Thursday skirted questions about why public funds amounting to US$13,100 (GY$2.7 million) were used to finance an overseas trip under the guise of a Diaspora Outreach that apparently turned out to be an electioneering mission. Asked why Cabinet had granted approval for the trip to Canada ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 15 April 2015, 19:47 by GxMedia The Guyana government on Thursday scoffed at reports that outgoing Human Services Minister, Jennifer Webster resigned because she was linked to the discovery of a large amount of cash aboard an executive jet in Puerto Rico. “Neither am I nor cabinet nor the government aware that a minister of the ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 15 April 2015, 18:06 by GxMedia The Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) of the Guyana Police Force has seized more than US$10,000 from a Brazilian woman and placed her before the court on Wednesday. Marisa Silva Cardosa of Ituni Street, Bel Air Park pleaded not guilty to the charge that she failed to declare US$11,000 to ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 15 April 2015, 17:49 by GxMedia Preliminary Visit of the OAS Electoral Observation Mission to Guyana  The Electoral Observation Mission of the Organization of American States (EOM/OAS), headed by the former Foreign Minister of Belize Lisa Shoman, arrived Wednesday in Guyana to learn about the preparations for the May 11 general and regional elections, the OAS ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 15 April 2015, 10:12 by GxMedia The 70-year old Guyanese woman, who was caught with 1.92 kilogramme of cocaine on arrival at the John F. Kennedy International Airport, first raised alarm bells by her body language leadingl federal agents found a hard object near her groin. A United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent states ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 15 April 2015, 2:43 by GxMedia A woman was Tuesday night killed on the West Coast Demerara  public road after a car that was being driven allegedly by a drunken driver ploughed into them. She has been identified as Vanessa Forde, said to be in her 30s, of Stewartville. Her eight-year old son, Zedane Moore, escaped ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 14 April 2015, 23:15 by GxMedia A Communications Officer of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) has been arrested and charged in the United States (US) for cocaine trafficking. The privately-owned television news provider, Capitol News, said the 29-year old Adams attempted to sneak into the US with the illicit drug on April 7, 2015. Adams, who ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 14 April 2015, 22:56 by GxMedia Reproduced from Manchester Evening News X-ray revealed dozens of bags, each the size of a ‘large gherkin’, in system of Wade Williams – the drugs were later found to be worth £200,000 (US$213,000) A drug smuggler who risked his life by swallowing more than 70 bags of cocaine before boarding ...