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A handyman was Thursday morning shot dead by a security guard, who is 20 years old, at an auto sales company at Lusignan, East Coast Demerara, the Guyana Police Force said. The dead man has been named as 19-year old Jared Jaganand of Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara. Police said the security guard, who is employed by Cerberus Security Service, ...

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Aubrey Norton- confident that he would be reelected to his party’s top  job at internal elections in August- said he would be the opposition’s presidential candidate, but he would be willing to make way for a consensus pick. “As is presently structured, I see that we’ll have a congress, I would be ...

Hours after Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton said Guyana’s testimony before the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) revealed the true state of civil and political rights here, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo accused the opposition of influencing mainly the United States’ nominated committee member who asked several questions about corruption. Mr Norton said the three days of UNHRC hearings exposed the ...

A school drop-out was arrested shortly after the killing of a 17-year old unemployed boy, and police are searching for another student who was allegedly involved in the homicide at Patentia, West Bank Demerara late Wednesday night. Dead is 17-year old Aaron Bess of 234 Patentia. Investigators were informed that he was walking to a shop at about 9:30 PM ...

The Ministry of Education’s Chief Education Officer, Saddam Hussain on Wednesday told a High Court hearing that there could no longer be debunching of teachers’ salaries. He explained that with graduate teachers now earning the maximum in the salary scale, debunching was no longer on the Education Ministry’s agenda, though that remained a demand by the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU). ...

Vice President of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU), Julian Cambridge on Wednesday admitted that financial matters were discussed with the government. Representing the government, lawyer Dharshan Ramdhani, at the outset, established that the previous multi-year agreement between the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) and the government remains in force until a new agreement is reached. GTU Vice President Julian Cambridge, under ...

American Human Rights advocate, Laurence Helfer’s questions to the Guyana government before the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) about last year’s detention of Permanent Secretary Mae Toussaint Jr. Thomas-Meerabux by United States Customs and Border Protection Agents. He pointed to her arrest as an example of alleged corruption and wanted to know what the Guyana government had been doing ...

A well-known Guyanese pilot has been found not guilty of trafficking in persons, after he was arraigned almost one year ago and placed on GY$1.3 million bail. The Bartica Magistrate Court on Thursday March 14, 2024 found Mr Charles innocent of all Trafficking in Persons (TIP) charges leveled against him by the Guyana Police Force (GPF), he said in a ...

High Court Judge, Sandil Kissoon on Tuesday ordered the Ministry of Education’s Chief Executive Officer, Saddam Hussain to produce proof that financial matters had been discussed with the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) between 2019 and February 5, 2024. Attorney General Anil Nandlall undertook to provide the documents to the GTU’s lawyer, Darren Wade and lawyer for the Guyana Trades Union ...

The Guyana government has told the United Nations Committee on Human Rights that it could not implement Public Disclosure and Whistleblowers laws because the country was not prepared to do so. “We are unable to, at this point, to activate the Public Disclosure and Whistleblower Act because there are genuine problems of implementation,” Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance, Gail ...