Last Updated on Monday, 13 July 2015, 18:50 by GxMedia Guyanese law enforcement agents, who have violated human rights, would be barred from pursuing certain American-funded training programmes, according to Charge D’Affaires of the United States (US) embassy Bryan Hunt. “The US law stipulates that anyone who is going to be receiving training under this programme has to go through ...
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‘Dog and pony show’ won’t help crime; Rohee attacks Gov’t crime approach, dismisses involvement in “intellectual crimes”
Last Updated on Monday, 13 July 2015, 17:34 by GxMedia by Zena Henry The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) continues to take the government to task over the current crime situation and has declared that the Administration’s ‘dog and pony show” proposal will not work. Speaking as former Home Affairs Minister at the PPP’s press conference Monday July 13, Clement Rohee ...
Read More »UN Good Officer Process in Guyana-Venezuela controversy useless- Foreign Minister
Last Updated on Monday, 13 July 2015, 17:29 by GxMedia Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge says Guyana is no longer interested in the United Nations (UN) Good Officer Process because Venezuela has been using it as a cover to leave the border controversy unresolved, but he declined to say whether his country would approve the appointment of a new mediator. “We ...
Read More »Fire destroys Chinese store in City, damage Republic Bank
Last Updated on Sunday, 12 July 2015, 11:11 by GxMedia Fire ripped through a Chinese hardware store at Camp and Robb Streets and shattered the glass of Republic Bank’s branch. The building also housed Manchester Chinese Restaurant and a small take-away snackette. The cause of the fire is unknown. The blaze began at about 2 AM in the wooden building ...
Read More »9 percent hike in serious crimes for the first half of 2015
Last Updated on Saturday, 11 July 2015, 20:36 by GxMedia Police on Saturday announced a nine percent increase in serious crimes for the first six months of 2015 compared to the same period last year. At the end of June 2015 the Guyana Police Force recorded a 9% increase in serious crimes in comparison to the same period in 2014. ...
Read More »Decomposed bodies of woman, infant found in house
Last Updated on Saturday, 11 July 2015, 12:43 by GxMedia The decomposed body of an Amerindian woman and her eight-month old child were discovered in a house on the East Bank Demerara , police confirmed. The names of the deceased were not immediately available. The house in which the bodies were found is located at 408 Section ‘C’, Block Y, ...
Read More »PetroCaribe caused “watered down” Caricom statement on Guyana-Venezuela row- WPA
Last Updated on Saturday, 11 July 2015, 12:14 by GxMedia The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on Saturday said Caribbean Community (Caricom) leaders appeared to have issued a watered down statement on Venezuela’s unilateral extension of its maritime boundary because several PetroCaribe beneficiaries might have sold out Guyana. “The Statement was extremely terse, as though the Heads would rather be rid ...
Read More »Maduro asks UN Chief to appoint new Good Officer
Last Updated on Saturday, 11 July 2015, 11:00 by GxMedia Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro sent a letter Friday to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asking the U.N. chief to appoint a new Good Officer to diplomatically address the Venezuela-Guyana territorial dispute, according to TelesurTV. “As it is public knowledge, the new Government of Guyana has ignored, the entry into force of ...
Read More »EzJet boss jailed for 20 years
Last Updated on Saturday, 11 July 2015, 9:28 by GxMedia BY FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL When Sonny Ramdeo embezzled at least $21.4 million from his employer, he didn’t blow the money on fancy cars and waterfront homes. Instead, federal prosecutors said Ramdeo, 38, envisioned himself as the next Sir Richard Branson — with a bandit twist — and used his ill-gotten gains ...
Read More »Iwokrama review committee convenes first meeting
Last Updated on Friday, 10 July 2015, 21:50 by GxMedia -Sub-committees established to address priority areas Minister of Governance, Raphael Trotman on Friday convened the first meeting with the review committee that has been established to examine the operations of the cash-strapped Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation, the Ministry of the Presidency said in a statement. The Centre has ...
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