Last Updated on Tuesday, 3 February 2015, 20:33 by GxMedia Under tight security, at least 28 Guyanese d‎eportees were Tuesday afternoon escorted to police headquarters shortly after coming off a US government chartered flight.  The MD-82 jet touched down at the Cheddi Jagan Internationa Airport at exactly 2:39 PM, as a small number of relatives and friends mingled in the ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 3 February 2015, 14:55 by GxMedia Attorney-at-Law, Sase Gunraj was Tuesday morning sworn in as an Elections Commissioner before President Donald Ramotar, having been nominated by the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC). He replaces long-serving Commissioner Dr. Keshav ‘Bud’ Mangal who resigned from the post last month due to health reasons. Gunraj was selected by the ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 3 February 2015, 13:15 by GxMedia University of Guyana Vice Chancellor Professor Jacob Opadeyi  Tuesday morning joined the picketing demonstration, appealing to lecturers to return to work and promising them that salaries would be increased. He declined to comment beyond the statements on the placards. The academic and non-academic staff have been on a now almost ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 3 February 2015, 12:42 by GxMedia University of Guyana students Tuesday morning blocked the gate to the Turkeyen Campus  to shut down operations there as part of efforts to press demands for improved teaching-learning conditions. Security guards chained the gate to posts to prevent the students from locking them. A Deputy Vice Chancellor entered the compound, ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 3 February 2015, 12:00 by GxMedia The East Bank Essequibo village of Vergenoegen was Tuesday still in a state of mourning for four persons, including three children, who drowned while returning from a ritual at the foreshore, police said. Those, who perished on February 1, 2015, are 53-year old Radika “Nadira” Persaud of 13 Vergenoegen Public ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 3 February 2015, 2:16 by GxMedia The United States (US) will Tuesday afternoon deliver 28 Guyanese deportees- the single largest number in years- to the land of their birth aboard a charter flight, Police Commissioner Seelall confirmed. “It might be the biggest  from the US in the last many years,” he said, adding that he could ...