Last Updated on Friday, 6 February 2015, 19:37 by GxMedia A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) says determining its Presidential and Prime Ministerial candidates on the basis of race is a failed model and does not determine how the coalition decides who fills these posts. These remarks were delivered on Friday by APNU General Secretary (GS), Joseph Harmon, who, during ...

Last Updated on Friday, 6 February 2015, 19:22 by GxMedia The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) announced that it dropped tax evasion charges against Kaieteur News publisher Glen Lall and two remigrants in exchange for paying up the outstanding taxes on two Lexus SUVs. The remigrant couple, Narootandeo and Gharbassi Brijnanan, were jointly charged along with Glenn and his wife, Bhena, ...

Last Updated on Friday, 6 February 2015, 19:12 by GxMedia Two Guyanese women have been charged in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) for alleged possession of guns and ammunition, police in that United Kingdom (UK) dependency said Friday in a statement. The women and one man were arrested by the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force Special Investigations Team during an ...

Last Updated on Friday, 6 February 2015, 16:49 by GxMedia University of Guyana (UG) workers on Friday decided to escalate their sit-in strike to a “full blown”  three-day strike from Monday, even as their unions seek the intervention of the Labour Ministry and President Donald Ramotar. The move to escalate industrial action followed Thursday night’s formal withdrawal of a pay-hike ...

Last Updated on Friday, 6 February 2015, 3:41 by GxMedia University of Guyana Vice Chancellor, Professor Jacob Opadeyi on Thursday withdrew the institution’s pay offer and called off wage and salary negotiations until workers end their now two-week old sit-in strike, vowing that the administration would not return to the bargaining table under duress. “For the negotiation to continue all ...

Last Updated on Friday, 6 February 2015, 0:50 by GxMedia The governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP) on Thursday lashed out at legal manoeuvres by a private citizen, backed by a number of lawyers, to challenge the constitutionality of the two-term presidential limit. “The sponsors of the legal challenge appear to have a hidden agenda in the real sense of the ...