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by Zena Henry Minister of Public Health Dr. George Norton has opted to hire a Deputy Director of the Vector Control Department to temper a bitter row between the head of that department and staffers. A letter of complaint dated June17, by Keith Moore, Senior Training officer, Global Fund-Malaria, was sent to the Public Health Minister purporting to be on ...

Guyanese police on Sunday said the man arrested in connection with the shooting death of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing could be charged shortly. Head of the Criminal Investigations Department, Senior Superintendent Wendell Blanhum told Demerara Waves Online News that the arrest, which marks a “significant development” in the probe, was not as a result of willy-nilly action by police. “Let ...

An employee of the Department of Culture, Youth and Sport was among several persons arrested in connection with the death of a middle-age man Saturday afternoon as a result of a road accident on the Essequibo Coast. Dead is Derek “Pudding” Glasgow of Queenstown, Essequibo Coast. He was a labourer. Eyewitnesses said he was walking along the Queenstown Public Road ...

A man has been arrested by police in connection with the beating and stabbing to death of another man who allegedly hacked a woman to death and chopped her husband, Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud said Saturday. He said the detainee allegedly identified the suspected killer at the Stabroek Market area Friday night, placed him in a car under the pretext ...

Buoyed by a 15 percent reduction in serious crimes last year due attributed to a Social Crime Prevention Programme, the Guyana Police Force on Saturday widened the involvement of the religious community in helping to building trust between police and the public. Police Commissioner said since the engagement of a church and mosque in Albouystown about two years ago and ...

Presidential Advisor on National Security, Brigadier Edward Collins on Friday kicked off a four-day outreach to law enforcement agencies in Berbice, the Ministry of the Presidency said in a statement. This is the first of a series of such outreaches to be carried out across the country with the aim of interacting with police officers; giving them the opportunity to ...

Reproduced from El Universal In the Summit of the Common Market of the South (Mercosur) on Friday, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced that a special meeting will be held within the framework of the regional body to address a border dispute between Guyana and Venezuela. “I would like to thank you all for agreeing to call a special meeting of ...

Trans Guyana Airways (TGA) on Friday highlighted that it was not responsible for the crash of a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan that killed a Canadian pilot and a Guyanese cargo loader, but announced that steps in line with several other findings have been put in place to cushion the impact of any crash of its cargo flights on those aboard. ...

by Zena Henry Chief Justice Ian Chang has granted an injunction preventing the Teaching Service Commission (TSC) from issuing and publishing promotions for this year 2015. The matter was brought to the High Court last week by Attorney-at-law Roysdale Forde who is representing the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU). Citing several irregularities in the promotional procedures of Principals, Deputy Principals, Heads ...

Recently-appointed Town Clerk Royston King has set his sights on recovering billions of dollars lost to what is well-known as the ‘cash-strapped’ Mayor and City Council (M&CC) in a political tug-o-war. King is adamant that the Council will take a proactive approach in conducting building evaluations and recovering fees from businesses that use City spaces without compensating for inconveniencing others. ...