Last Updated on Tuesday, 31 March 2015, 20:22 by GxMedia A Brazilian Pastor is among three persons charged with the possession of a large quantity of marijuana while they were leaving the southern Guyanese township of Lethem for neighbouring Brazil. Chief Magistrate, Priya Sewnarine-Beharry refused them bail and ordered that they be remanded until June 1 when they would appear ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 31 March 2015, 19:56 by GxMedia The United States (US) embassy in Guyana says the rules and conditions for issuing non-immigrant visas have nothing to do with the situation in any country around the world but by American laws hinged on ties to an applicant’s home country. “The Embassy does not issue non-immigrant visas based on ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 31 March 2015, 19:24 by GxMedia Guyanese anti-drug agents have discovered a quantity of cocaine stashed in a wood charcoal that was bound for the United States (US), a senior official said. “During the examination, Officers observed four strange objects in one of the bags which did not confirm with the description of the charcoals that were ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 31 March 2015, 18:03 by GxMedia Opposition coalition Prime Ministerial candidate, Moses Nagamootoo is not daunted by the failure to attract a large number of Indo-Guyanese at its rally in his home-village of Whim, Corentyne earlier this week. Among the estimated 5,000 mostly Afro-Guyanese attendees were very few Indian Guyanese, a feature that Alliance For Change ...

Last Updated on Monday, 30 March 2015, 20:55 by GxMedia Bharrat Jagdeo is still the President of Guyana and Donald Ramotar is merely a politician but they both live at State House, if we are to go by the latest version of Guyana’s voters list. The Revised List of Electors (2015) published on the Guyana Elections Commission’s website also states ...

Last Updated on Monday, 30 March 2015, 20:08 by GxMedia Two bogus cops- arrested at house allegedly with drugs, a gun and ammunition- were Monday charged with several robbery offences. One of them, who is a former soldier, had escaped from police custody while under guard and receiving treatment at the Georgetown Hospital for a gunshot wound he sustained during ...

Last Updated on Monday, 30 March 2015, 13:03 by GxMedia Three persons were killed and several others injured early Monday morning when the vehicle they were in was involved in an accident on the West Coast Berbice, police sources said. They are 22-years old Tommy Thomas of John Street, New Amsterdam and 19-year old Jevon Gregory of Stanleytown, New Amsterdam. ...

Last Updated on Monday, 30 March 2015, 4:49 by GxMedia Former president Bharat Jagdeo told a rally in Kitty on Sunday that the opposition parties, if elected into power, will create adverse conditions which will force Guyanese to apply for visas in increasing numbers, thereby forcing the United States (U.S.) Embassy in Guyana to clamp down on visa distribution here. ...

Last Updated on Monday, 30 March 2015, 4:45 by GxMedia Former A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Member of Parliament (MP) Africo Selman has formally joined up with the Peoples Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) and came out swinging against her old party during the party’s Kitty rally on Sunday. Selman, whose resignation from APNU took effect on February 26th, expressed ...

Last Updated on Monday, 30 March 2015, 2:06 by GxMedia The opposition coalition of A Partnership for a National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) Sunday night promised an increase in Old Age Pensions, an end to piracy of fishermen in Berbice and ensure that the sugar industry remains open. Addressing about 5,000 persons at his home-village of Whim, Corentyne ...