Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 September 2014, 13:17 by GxMedia Police patrolling the Wowasie Creek area, Potaro River seized two guns and ammunition in little more than two hours on Monday. The first seizure of one .30 revolver and 13 matching rounds were found about 3 PM in possession of a man. Police said the gun and ammo were in ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 September 2014, 13:11 by GxMedia A strike in the East Berbice sugar belt on Tuesday spread from Skeldon to Albion to protest the immediate dismissal of a worker who slapped the Skeldon Estate Manager,  according to a senior official of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco). This is contrary to Agriculture Minister, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy saying ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 September 2014, 2:43 by GxMedia Workers at Skeldon Sugar Estate were Monday trickling back to work at the end of a three-day strike and burning of sugar cane  that were sparked off by the immediate dismissal of a worker who allegedly assaulted the Estate Manager. The strike has already hit the Guyana Power and Light ...

Last Updated on Monday, 22 September 2014, 23:37 by GxMedia A Memorandum of Understanding signed between the Government of Guyana and the United Kingdom has paved the way for training and mentoring for the staff of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) created by the government to investigate money laundering crimes, according to the Government Information Agency (GINA). Signing on ...

Last Updated on Monday, 22 September 2014, 23:23 by GxMedia The High Court on Monday ordered a 22-year old man to cease publishing allegations against House Speaker, Raphael Trotman and further ordered him to remove all such allegations from his Facebook Page, the Alliance For Change (AFC) said in a statement. An injunction has been granted barring Johnny Anthony Welshman ...

Last Updated on Monday, 22 September 2014, 23:18 by GxMedia The Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) on Monday said strike action by workers at Skeldon Sugar Estate, which supplies bagasse-produced electricity to the national grid, coupled with a number of other technical problems has forced the power company to schedule blackout to a number of areas. “GuySuCo is unable ...

Last Updated on Monday, 22 September 2014, 22:39 by GxMedia (UMSL DAILY http://blogs.umsl.edu/)  Gyanpriya Maharaj had already collaborated with Godfrey R. Bourne on several ecological projects before enrolling at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Maharaj studied butterflies with Bourne in her home country, Guyana, before joining the biology associate professor’s UMSL lab in 2012. In that time she has made steady ...

Last Updated on Monday, 22 September 2014, 22:23 by GxMedia A man was Monday arraigned for allegedly wounding his mother after she refused to give him money. Yogesh Manilall pleaded not guilty to unlawfully and maliciously wounding his mother, Surujdai Manilall, on September 18 on Robb Street, Georgetown. He was remanded to prison until October 21. Police Prosecutor told the ...

Last Updated on Monday, 22 September 2014, 17:01 by GxMedia One of three gold miners, who were tied and beaten by robbers at Issano, died early Monday morning at a city hospital. He has been identified as Joseph Nurse of Belmonte, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara. Investigators learnt that Nurse and two of his workers were attacked and beaten by two ...

Last Updated on Monday, 22 September 2014, 16:46 by GxMedia Police on Monday said hey were probing why a man entered a house at Pafaite Harmonie and set it ablaze, killing a man named Jason. Crime sleuths hoped that a man they arrested could assist them in solving the crime. Investigators said his charred remains were found in a house at ...