Last Updated on Friday, 8 August 2014, 21:15 by GxMedia A tractor driver on Friday  remained in police custody in connection with the death of a man who was travelling on trailer at Kwakwani, Berbice River. Police identified the dead man as Imtiaz Hussain. Investigatoers said that about 9 O’clock Thursday night, he fell off the rail of the trailer ...

Last Updated on Friday, 8 August 2014, 21:10 by GxMedia Despite strident demands by the two parliamentary opposition parties for the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to be reformed, they said Friday that they have no other option but to go into early general elections without most of their demands being unfulfilled. With the delivery of the Alliance For Change (AFC)-sponsored ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 7 August 2014, 22:21 by GxMedia (LATIMES.COM).-The cremated remains of nine victims of the 1978 Jonestown Massacre, a mass suicide in Guyana, were discovered inside a former Delaware funeral home on Wednesday, state officials said. Members of the Delaware Division of Forensic Science and the Dover Police Department conducted an excavation at the Minus Funeral Home ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 7 August 2014, 21:45 by GxMedia The family of Gregory Smith- the late suspected hit-man in the bomb-in-walkie-talkie explosion that killed Guyanese politician Dr. Walter Rodney 34 years ago- has begun taking steps to clear his name posthumously. Lead Counsel for the Rodney Commission of Inquiry, Glen Hanoman on Thursday confirmed receiving correspondence from a New ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 7 August 2014, 20:49 by GxMedia Less than one day before the Alliance For Change (AFC) presented its No Confidence Motion to the National Assembly on Thursday, that party warned of street protests and international isolation if government ignores the vote by the opposition-controlled House. AFC General Secretary, David Patterson on Thursday delivered the motion to ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 7 August 2014, 20:03 by GxMedia The Guyana Police Force’s (GPF) high-tech fingerprint system has netted another suspected murderer; this time a 23-year old man for the killing of a 75-year old woman at her home earlier this year Arraigned for the capital offence is Junior Williams also known as Kevin Alfred. He is accused of ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 7 August 2014, 15:19 by GxMedia Former Police Intelligence Chief, Senior Superintendent Leslie James on Thursday said Working People’s Alliance (WPA) Co-leader, Dr. Walter Rodney’s apparent recklessness might have been partly responsible for his bomb-in-walkie-talkie death 34 years ago rather than state-sponsored terrorism. Walter’s brother, Donald, has said in a statement that back on June 13, ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 6 August 2014, 22:56 by GxMedia A brake has been put on the award of contracts for rehabilitating a badly constructed building that will eventually house the headquarters of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) after authorities were told that one of the new contracting entities includes old principals who were responsible for the flawed ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 6 August 2014, 20:22 by GxMedia The man, who allegedly stabbed to death a minibus driver at the Plaisance bus park because he objected to him urinating on his vehicle’s wheel, was Wednesday arraigned on a murder charge. The charge was read to Orin Jerrick of Ann’s Grove, East Coast Demerara by Chief Magistrate, Priya Sewnarine-Beharry. ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 6 August 2014, 20:06 by GxMedia President Donald Ramotar could possibly call early general elections rather than await the inevitable passage of a no-confidence motion, even as the House Speaker Raphael Trotman ruled out a parliamentary debate before the House goes into recess on Sunday. “Nothing is impossible…I don’t believe that it’s a question of strategy ...