Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia Representatives of the United States (US) embassy and the Guyana government are preparing to meet to iron out differences about the controversial US$1.2 million Leadership and Democracy (LEAD) project. Word of the impending talks came Thursday- the same day the Private Sector Commission (PSC) appeared to lean on the side ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia Police Commissioner, Leroy Brumell on Thursday said he has asked Attorney-at-Law, Nigel Hughes for time to conduct a probe into a policeman’s baton-sodomy of detainee two months ago. Brumell said he has not given Hughes any commitment concerning a GUY$100 million demand for assault and injury to 23-year old Colwyn ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia Health Minister Dr. Bheri Ramsaran says Colwyn Harding, the man allegedly sexually assaulted by a policeman, has lost a significant portion of his intestines. The minister made the revelation in parliament on Thursday in response to questions from APNU MP Winston Felix, adding that Harding was being treated for hernia-related ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia Government on Thursday effectively ruled out voluntarily compensating the man who a policeman sodomized with a condom-covered baton and instead preferred for the matter to be tested in court. Speaking with reporters after a post-cabinet press briefing, Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon suggested that government was unlikely ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia Electricity supply to Linden was restored early Thursday morning after technicians repaired a breaker that interfaces between the generator and the substation, officials said. Electricity was switched on  shortly after 1 AM and went out again moments later. However, it was fully restored momnents later and there has been no ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia The Albouystown and Headstart Nursery Schools will remain closed on Thursday due to ongoing flood conditions, the Education Ministry announced. “The Ministry of Education will provide further information on the reopening of these schools as ongoing assessments continue,” said the ministry in a brief statement. Those that will be reopened ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia Although the policeman allegedly involved in the baton-sodomy of a detainee has been placed under close arrest and several others transferred, civil society organisations Wednesday afternoon believed that was so far insufficient. More than 50 persons braved heavy rain and picketed outside the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) where 23-year ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia The Home Affairs Ministry on Wednesday said a policeman’s alleged sodomizing of a detainee with a condom-covered baton makes a “mockery” of police reform. “Such breaches fly in the face of the efforts at Police Reform and makes a mockery of the hard work by the Ministry of Home Affairs ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia In the wake of mounting condemnaation, the Guyana Police Force on Wednesday warned that stern action would be taken against members of the force found culpable of the baton-sodomy of Colwyn Harding who remained hospitalised in a serious condition with ruptured intestines “The Guyana Police Force wishes to emphatically state ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is forging ahead with a programme designed to harmonise the measurement of literacy data to advance the production of reliable information for better decision making in this area, the regional headquarters said on Wednesday. Education officials, statisticians and other experts gathered in Barbados on Tuesday and ...