Last Updated on Tuesday, 19 May 2015, 23:47 by GxMedia Bandits Tuesday morning invaded the East Coast Demerara home of a businessman, tied up his employees and carted off more than GUY$17 million in foreign currency in what appears to have been conducted with the assistance of someone with sensitive information, police said. Investigators were told that about11 AM, Tuesday, ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 19 May 2015, 23:05 by GxMedia by Zena Henry An investigation is to be launched into the alleged disappearance of items belonging, in particular, to the National Sports Commission (NSC), Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports Alfred King. This follows a report by State newspaper, Chronicle which alleged that numerous documents detailing ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 19 May 2015, 22:50 by GxMedia The death of 10 miners in a pit at Region Eight, which occurred due to a breach of safety measures, could have been possibly avoided if there was no injunction that barred the Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) from enforcing regulations, according to that regulatory agency. “It is important to ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 19 May 2015, 21:57 by GxMedia by Zena Henry The government has put a hold on all police transfers until further notice The transfer of the Head of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Assistant Commissioner Leslie James is among , according to well-placed sources. He and others had been instructed to report to different locations Tuesday ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 19 May 2015, 17:42 by GxMedia by Zena Henry The A Partnership for National Unity +Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC)-led administration is setting for a grand display of activities as the country nears its 49th Independence Anniversary, and prepares for  the inauguration of His Excellency Retired Brigadier David A. Granger, Commander-in- Chief of the Armed Forces on May 26. ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 19 May 2015, 15:31 by GxMedia Dead miners identified The lifeless bodies of five the ten miners who failed to escape when a mining pit caved – in Mousie, Region Eight (Potaro – Siparuni) over the weekend were this morning taken to the Lyken Funeral Home and three of them have been identified. The three men ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 19 May 2015, 1:33 by GxMedia President David Granger plans to designate the Office of the President as the Ministry of the Presidency and make the Head of the Presidential Secretariat a Minister of State, according to the Government Information Agency (GINA) Granger told staffers at the Presidential Complex of his intentions when he met with ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 19 May 2015, 0:33 by GxMedia by Zena Henry Former Agriculture Minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy believes that international players engineered the outcome of Guyana’s just concluded general elections because at least one of them wants to put its hand on the oil industry. Expressing his non-acceptance of the 2015 results, Ramsammy on his Facebook page claimed ...