Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia The Alliance For Change (AFC) says it is ready to support the hydro-electric bill but is calling for the motion to increase the debt ceiling to be tied specifically to the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP) in order to avoid giving the government a blank slate to go borrow. The ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia The body of a Mocha youth who went missing earlier this week was found Friday morning in the backdam of the East Bank Demerara village. Delon Melville, 25, of Nelson Street, Mocha, was last seen alive by his family on Monday. Demerara Waves Online News understands that the partly decomposed ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia (GINA) Over the past three days, about 300 Cuban trained Guyanese have returned from the Spanish-speaking island to serve their country. Two hundred medical doctors arrived at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) Timehri on Wednesday while on Tuesday a batch of 99 graduates comprising agronomists and engineers returned. Minister ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia A man Thursday night went berserk and chopped his wife and three of their children at their Sophia home. Initial reports suggest that the angry man, Shawn Fordyce, did not want his wife, 47-year old Dorothy Blackman, to go out. Blackman is said to be a newspaper vendor on Orange ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia The drowning of a three-year old child, killing of an elderly man and the shooting of a businessman during a robbery of a supermarket are among incidents on Thursday’s police blotter. Investigators said the boy-Doukuan Edwards of Industry, East Coast Demerara- was found in the creek at Marudi, Soesdyke/Linden Highway at ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia A senior officer of the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) was early Thursday morning killed as he was returning from an event at Fort Wellington, West Coast Berbice to usher in African Emancipation Day, officials said. Dead is Sub-Officer, Linden Mc Almont who was based at the Central Fire Station headquarters ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia The 1823 Coalition says it is determined to erect a monument to the Demerara slave revolt at Parade Ground despite the work being done by the government at a Carifesta Avenue location. The Coalition has long argued that Parade Ground was the appropriate place to locate the monument since it ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia Eight passengers of the Caribbean Airlines plane that crashed at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) two years ago are suing the airline for more than GUY$8 million each. Court papers filed by their attorneys, Sase Gunraj and Jaya Singh, on July 26, 2013 state that they are each claiming ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia Hururu residents, who had blocked a road and river earlier this year to demand higher compensation and other benefits for their Upper Berbice community, on Wednesday refused to sign an agreement with the Russian bauxite mining company and instead held further talks. Deputy Village Captain, Victor Walker said he and ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia A man Wednesday evening hacked to death his two young children and severely chopped his reputed wife during yet another argument about her alleged unfaithfulness, police sources said. The incident occurred at Zeelugt North, East Bank Essequibo around 6 PM. Police have launched a manhunt for the assailant, 26-year old ...