Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, July 03, 2013 – LIAT has implemented a security surcharge on tickets in response to rising security demands and spiraling security costs. The new security surcharge of US$1.25 per one way trip applies to all passengers, including children and infants, on all LIAT flights. Heightened airline and ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia A 17-year old boy was Wednesday afternoon killed and his brother seriously injured after a truck returning from a gold mine toppled off a hill in the North West District. Dead is 17-year old Leandre Perez of Citrus Grove, Port Kaituma. His brother, 28-year old Anil Singh, was air-dashed to ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia The Guyana government’s holding company on Wednesday dismissed suggestions by veteran politician Desmond Trotman that the 99-year lease for land on which the Marriott Hotel is being built is a giveaway to government “lackeys”. The National Industrial Commercial and Industrial Investments Limited (NICIL) denied that the 99-year lease of the ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia Three men were Wednesday afternoon rendered homeless when fire destroyed their shack on the Plaisance Railway Embankment opposite the village market. No one was injured. Investigators believe a bed-ridden man whose name was given as Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow might know how the blaze started. Another of the occupants name was ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia A 25-year old female American student was Wednesday afternoon arrested after 4.5 kilogrammes of cocaine were found in her suitcase. Briana Ashley was an outgoing passenger on a Caribbean Airlines (CAL) flight to New York when Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) agents discovered the illicit substance in a false bottom ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia The United States (US) is probing another visa racket allegedly involving another Consular Officer, the State Department has confirmed. “The Department of State is aware of allegations of improprieties relating to a Consular Officer formerly assigned to Georgetown, Guyana,” according to a statement issued through the embassy here. The State ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia A Caribbean Airlines (CAL) cargo flight made precautionary landing at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) because of a reported fire in the wheel well, sources said. ABX Air, CAL’s cargo flight, departed CJIA at 10:52 AM destined for Trinidad’s Piarco International Airport. Flight number CAL 973 reported that there ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia The High Court has granted an injunction barring the GECOM Commissioners from pronouncing on whether the contract of former Chief Elections Officer Gocool Boodoo should be renewed. Information reaching Demerara Waves Online News state that the Commission was served with the writ around 12.55 PM Tuesday, five minutes before a ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia Three former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Coast Guardsmen were Tuesday found guilty of murdering Dweive Kant Ramdass and dumping his body overboard after robbing him of millions of dollars. The 12-member jury returned a unanimous verdict of guilty. They were sentenced to death by hanging for the offence that was ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia A high-level official of the Region Three (Essequibo Islands- West Demerara) administration is being accused of sexual misconduct with a female officer, according to usually reliable sources. The official was Tuesday released on station bail after giving investigators an oral statement. He planned to submit a written statement shortly, police ...