Last Updated on Saturday, 31 January 2015, 2:08 by GxMedia The Council of the University of Guyana (UG) has instructed the university’s negotiating team to resume negotiations with the unions on wage increases and other benefits, although this may not be enough to convince staffers on sit-in to go back to work. The decision was taken during an extraordinary Council ...
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Lone eyewitness to Walter Rodney’s death blames GDF’s Gregory Smith
Last Updated on Friday, 30 January 2015, 22:05 by GxMedia Donald Rodney- the lone witness to the bomb-blast death of his brother, Dr. Walter Rodney, in 1980- on Friday told a commission of inquiry that his brother was killed when a walkie-talkie supplied by a then Guyana Defence Force (GDF) soldier exploded during what was supposed to be a test ...
Read More »Canada-bound passengers allegedly busted with cocaine
Last Updated on Friday, 30 January 2015, 18:53 by GxMedia Two Guyanese and a Guyanese born Canadian citizen are currently in police custody after they were allegedly caught attempting to smuggle cocaine through Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) early this morning, January 30, 2015. A man, who identified himself as Kenneth Jones, presented forged documents from the Ministry of Foreign ...
Read More »UG students march to demand better conditions
Last Updated on Friday, 30 January 2015, 1:30 by GxMedia Students of the University of Guyana (UG) Thursday marched off the Turkeyen Campus, venting their grievances to the wider public while most lecturers continued to stay away from classrooms to demand better pay packets. For the first time in more than 15 years, UG students undertook that brief yet significant ...
Read More »Four held allegedly with 10 kilos coke
Last Updated on Thursday, 29 January 2015, 22:32 by GxMedia Four persons have been arrested in connection with the alleged discovery of 10 kilogrammes of cocaine in Campbellville, according to a senior official of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU). Two cars were also seized during the operation on Sheriff Street on Wednesday, the official said. All of those arrested ...
Read More »Fisherman, gold miner shot dead
Last Updated on Thursday, 29 January 2015, 19:54 by GxMedia A fisherman and a gold miner were shot dead in two separate incidents in the North West District (NWD) and at Mc Doom, East Bank Demerara. Dead are gold miner, 37-year old Devon Moore of Stewartville, West Coast Demerara and fisherman 45-years old Elvin Pollard of Crane, West Coast Demerara. ...
Read More »Rohee, as Home Minister, confirmed police surveillance of opposition
Last Updated on Thursday, 29 January 2015, 17:36 by GxMedia Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee on Thursday said he used his ministerial office to ascertain who had been conducting intelligence surveillance around the headquarters and members of his governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP). Appearing before a Commission of Inquiry into the bomb-blast death of Walter Rodney in 1980, Rohee detailed ...
Read More »Plane in minor accident at interior airstrip
Last Updated on Thursday, 29 January 2015, 16:44 by GxMedia An Air Services Limited (ASL) aircraft Thursday morning ran off the airstrip at Kurupung, resulting in damage to the aircraft, according to sources. No one was reported injured in the incident that occurred about 9:40 AM. The sources said that Captain Michael Halim related that the brakes for the Britten ...
Read More »18 soldiers injured in road accident
Last Updated on Thursday, 29 January 2015, 11:45 by GxMedia Eighteen soldiers were Thursday morning injured in an collision between a truck and a bus on the Garden of Eden Public Road, East Bank Demerara, a high-ranking officer of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) said. Three of them sustained broken bones and were rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation ...
Read More »Govt comfortable with promotion of torture-accused cops
Last Updated on Thursday, 29 January 2015, 1:36 by GxMedia Cabinet Secretary Roger Luncheon says government is satisfied that the Police Service Commission (PSC) satisfied itself that there was no reason barring the promotions of former torture-accused police officers officers Mohanran Dolai and Narine Lall. Dolai, who was recently promoted to Corporal, and Lall, who was recently promoted to Inspector, ...
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