Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia The Peoples National Congress Reform (PNCR) is preparing the groundwork should its leader, Retired Brigadier David Granger be subpoenaed to appear before the Commission of Inquiry into the bomb-blast death of Guyanese political activist, Dr. Walter Rodney. Attorney-at-Law, Basil Williams told Demerara Waves Online News that the PNCR was ready ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia A Guyanese woman who allegedly attempted to smuggle cocaine to Spain through the post office was Friday arraigned on a cocaine trafficking charge and remanded to prison. She is 49-year old Sandra Daniels of 2 Dennis Street, Sophia, Greater Georgetown. Appearing before City Magistrate Judy Latchman on May 8, she ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia The Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) has already surpassed its first crop target but the President of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), Komal Chand says there is nothing to shout about because it was a low target. “First of all you have to recognise that the target was ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia Guyana’s mining and construction sectors are now poised to benefit from lower fuel consumption hydraulic excavators. They are being supplied by Machinery Corporation of Guyana (MARCORP) Guyana  Limited.  Company officials stressed the greater fuel efficiency of the new D2 series hydraulic excavators during a demonstration exercise at Providence, East Bank ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia A graphic designer was jailed Thursday for being in illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition with which he had been caught more than three months ago. Dellon Morgan of 149 DÁndrade Street, Newtown-Kitty, Georgetown was sentenced to three years each for being in illegal possession of one Luger pistol ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia Children living in Ituni, Region 10 and its surrounding areas can now view the Ministry of Education’s Guyana Learning Channel with the recent completion of the brand new Ituni transmission facility, the Ministry of Education announced on Thursday. This new transmission facility is the fifteenth of its kind to be ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia A woman was Thursday afternoon arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle cocaine in cosmetics to Spain, a senior official of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) said. The official said the narcotic was yet to be weighed and the suspect was expected to be interviewed by investigators later on the ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Thursday ordered Guyana to repay a Surinamese beverage manufacturer more than US$6 million in environmental tax that had been levied on non-returnable bottles because it amounts to a discriminatory import duty that violates Caricom’s Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas (RTC). The CCJ took note ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia Pro-Chancellor of the University of Guyana, Dr. Prem Misir has resigned more than one year ahead of the end of his term of office. His resignation, which takes effect on June  2, 2014, was dated May 6, 2014 and circulated to Council members. “I think now is as good time ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon on Thursday did not rule out the Leadership and Democracy (LEAD) project being stalled, now that the US and Guyana have agreed to discuss the project design. “I have heard that comment but as I said before the investments that have been ...