Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 July 2015, 23:37 by GxMedia by Zena Henry The Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) expansion project remains suspended as it is expected that government and executive officials from the Chinese construction company China Habour Engineering Corporation (CHEC) are reviewing the “controversial” contract. Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson had told Demerara Waves last week that ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 July 2015, 23:15 by GxMedia UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) – A UN mission will travel to Venezuela and Guyana to promote dialogue between them over a border dispute, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro said Tuesday. Maduro made the remarks after meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who the Venezuelan said had promised to “immediately ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 July 2015, 21:44 by GxMedia A bandit was Tuesday afternoon knocked down by a car, leaving behind a hand gun and GUY$200,000 that he had moments earlier grabbed from a woman who had stopped because the motor vehicle she was travelling in had sustained a puncture, police said. The perpetrator then fled the scene in ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 July 2015, 21:39 by GxMedia by Zena Henry General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Clement Rohee has hinted act a conspiracy by the government to taint members of the former government as criminal elements or affiliates. Rohee’s assertion about a plot against his opposition party came against the background Attorney-at-law Nigel Hughes, who ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 July 2015, 21:23 by GxMedia Former Public Service Minister Dr. Jennifer Westford is to be charged in connection with the alleged purchase and attempted transfer of several government vehicles, police confirmed. Head of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Senior Superintendent Wendell Blanhum said he could not immediately provide the details of the charges. A source ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 July 2015, 10:31 by GxMedia The High Court has given granted Guyanese police more time to permission to detain a prime suspect in the killing of the owner of Hamson General Store, Farouk Hamid, beyond the initial 72 hours. Head of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Senior Superintendent Wendell Blanhum told Demerara Waves Online News ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 July 2015, 0:23 by GxMedia Self-confessed death squad member Sean Hinds was Monday still in police custody, hours after he surrendered in the company of his lawyer, but he is refusing to cooperate. “So far he is not cooperating with the police as a number of questions have been put to him in the presence ...