Last Updated on Wednesday, 4 April 2018, 13:01 by Denis Chabrol Despite an apparent schism in the Georgetown City Council between the Alliance For Change (AFC) and A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), the relationship between the coalition partners at the leadership of central government is “cordial”, AFC Chairman, Khemraj Ramjattan said Wednesday. “Absolutely not! We have tremendously cordial relationship ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 4 April 2018, 11:36 by Denis Chabrol Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan on Wednesday declared that he would be sticking with the Guyana Police Force’s version of the shooting death of three suspected bandits, and prefers to await the outcome of an inquest into the incident. “I am on the side of the Police Commissioner. ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 4 April 2018, 2:19 by Denis Chabrol Reproduced from Still Water County News. By: Marlo Pronovost, SCN editor Approximately 70 pounds of marijuana and US$1,700 in cash was seized during a routine traffic stop on I-90 last week. Bing Yuan Liang, 46, and James Yannick Van Sluytman, 32, are each charged with one felony count of possession ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 3 April 2018, 18:31 by Denis Chabrol Guyanese elder statesman, Eusi Kwayana and the Pan African Movement (Guyana branch) have slammed the decision to revoke the contracts of Professor David Hinds and trade unionist, Lincoln Lewis as columnists of the State-owned Guyana Chronicle newspaper. Kwayana, a long-serving executive member of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), contended ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 3 April 2018, 18:32 by Denis Chabrol A seven-year old boy was killed Tuesday morning when he was struck down on the Aurora Public Road, Essequibo Coast, and the driver is expected to be slapped with at least two charges. Police said the boy, Jagdesh Mohanlall, of Aurora ran from a yard into the path of ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 3 April 2018, 12:38 by Denis Chabrol Three men, including one whose father is charged was recently charged with cocaine trafficking, were Tuesday charged with a similar offence after they were intercepted allegedly while engaging in a cocaine transaction. Thirty-seven year old Mohamed Kadir, 33-year old Ryan Gomes and Mark Fowler were arraigned by Chief Magistrate ...

Last Updated on Monday, 2 April 2018, 19:25 by Denis Chabrol A La Penitence Market vendor was Easter Monday afternoon shot to his head after he tried  in vain to prevent four bandits from robbing his wife, eyewitnesses said. The incident occurred at about 5:30 PM outside Twin’s Drug Store, Saffon Street. Injured is Doodnauth “Hardat” Danrasi of Windsor Forest, ...

Last Updated on Monday, 2 April 2018, 12:43 by Denis Chabrol by GHK Lall “Venezuela says move to ICJ on border controversy unenforceable” (Stabroek News April 1).  I believe that Stabroek News is too sober and responsible to engage in April Fool jokes, but there it is in black and white, and as final as a fatal heart attack.  That ...

Last Updated on Monday, 2 April 2018, 3:47 by Denis Chabrol Reproduced from Trinidad Guardian A Guyanese sailor was crushed to death on Easter Sunday while loading a vessel at the Trinidad Cement Ltd (TCL) port in Claxton Bay. Doodnauth Nateram, 44, of La Parfaite Harmonie, Guyana, died at the San Fernando General Hospital around 3.40 am from internal injuries. ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 1 April 2018, 16:58 by Denis Chabrol Guyana is preparing to deploy oil spill equipment as part of preparations should there be breach more than 120 miles offshore where commercial oil production will begin in 2020, Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman has announced. Addressing a Civil Defence Commission Stakeholder Meeting on the National Oil Spill ...