Last Updated on Sunday, 8 February 2015, 23:56 by GxMedia Guyana on Sunday opened a GUY$35 million Petting Zoo which officials said would eventually be the home of several types of animals from  Africa, according to Environmental Minister, Robert Persaud. “Just recently, we have been able to conclude a zoo-to-zoo exchange programme and this zoo-to-zoo exchange programme will see us ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 7 February 2015, 3:08 by GxMedia A former manager of the Lucky Dollar branch at Corriverton was Friday granted GUY$1.8 million on 18 charges of embezzling a total of GUY$8.8 million from the store one year ago. Thirty-three year old Joanella Mongal of 8 Scottsburg, Corentyne is accused of committing the offences between January 6 and ...

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 ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:20 by GxMedia With less than two weeks to go before Guyanese will know whether the opposition would be uniting to contest the general elections in May, the Alliance For Change (AFC) on Thursday called for an end to narrow party and race politics. “This mission can no longer be delayed and must ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 5 February 2015, 22:10 by GxMedia No structured arrangements are in place to help any of the recently deported 25 Guyanese reintegrate in the country of their birth, Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud said Thursday. “There is nothing in place as far as I know. There used to be a few years ago when the IOM (International ...