Last Updated on Sunday, 8 December 2013, 17:49 by GxMedia Reproduced with permission from Sara Bharrat’s blog at http://sarabharrat.wordpress.com/ Many a bottom house raja and rani have told me that there is no race problem here in Guyana. They must really think that my belly is too full of that grassroots thing for me to not notice the hate, anger ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia Persons with connections to the drug underworld were responsible for the gunning down of a former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) soldier last month, police said. Deputy Police Commissioner, Seelall Persaud said the 7.62 rifle that was used to fatally shoot 23-year old Denzil Mingo outside the Edge Night Club/ Hotel ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia Seven months after a sawmill worker was found with his throat slit in a ramshackle living quarters at Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara a prime suspect has been arrested and charged with murder. Shawn Tyson, 28, of Kallicharran Sand Pit Road, Soesdyke is expected to be arraigned Monday on ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia Two men were shot dead in Diamond Saturday night during a shootout with police opposite the Diamond Police Station, East Bank Demerara shortly before they were about to rob a gold miner, police said. Guyana Police Force spokesman, Ivelaw Whittaker said that acting on information received that a robbery had ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia Retired Assistant Chief Education Officer, Maude Bullen-Mc Kenzie died on Saturday at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) after a period of illness. She was 69. A source said Bullen-Mc Kenzie, a diabetic, suffered kidney failure and was not responding to dialysis at two hospitals because of a clot that ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia President Donald Ramotar on Saturday left Guyana for South Africa to attend a funeral service for late former President, Nelson Mandela. He died on Wednesday at 95. Disclosure of Ramotar’s departure was made by Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh at the opening of the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry’s ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia Three teenage girls- including two sisters- who have repeatedly escaped from a Corentyne shelter to enter the world of prostitution have been ordered to go to the New Opportunity Corps after they threatened to commit suicide.    The girls have been removed from Kamal International Home for Homeless Children and ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia A man, who took his girlfriend to a Berbice hospital after allegedly beating her badly because she was talking with another man, was arrested after she succumbed to her injuries, relatives and police sources said. She has been identified as 26-year old Jasmattie “Mamo” Dowlatram of Railway Line Dam. Ankervile ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) has resumed its expansion programme now that its banking software has been upgraded, a senior official said Saturday. GBTI on Saturday officially opened its third branch at Port Mourant, Berbice in keeping with its ambition to open nine branches countrywide between 2012 ...