Last Updated on Wednesday, 22 July 2015, 17:50 by GxMedia Government has revealed that GPL Chief Executive Officer, Administration, Aeshwar Deonaraine, has been sent on administrative leave after it was found out that he wrongfully paid himself $27.8 million from the Petro-Caribe Fund. Additionally, government has learned that a Director of the Board of Directors of Guyana Power and Light ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 22 July 2015, 16:19 by GxMedia Police say self-confessed death squad member, Shawn Hinds, is not wanted for the shooting death of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing earlier this year. Head of the Criminal Investigations Department, Senior Superintendent Wendell Blanhum on Wednesday told Demerara Waves Online News that Hinds has not been fingered in Crum-Ewing’s killing on ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 22 July 2015, 15:56 by GxMedia The Guyana government has reached an agreement with the Surinamese beverage company, RUDISA International NV, with regard to the repayment of a judgement of US$7.72M in keeping with a ruling of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). The agreement includes the repayment of a reduced sum. Harmon refused to disclose ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 22 July 2015, 0:54 by GxMedia A former policeman has admitted that he was a member of a death squad that was responsible for bringing down several heavily armed criminals who had escaped from the Georgetown Prison in February 2002. “I was in a death squad,” said Shawn Hinds who is a former bodyguard for now ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 July 2015, 21:28 by GxMedia by Zena Henry Minister of State Joseph Harmon said that Guyanese can look forward to working indirectly in the country’s rising oil and gas sector as early as next month. He made the announcement last Sunday during an interview with Nice FM Radio in Antigua. The minister answered questions by the ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 July 2015, 21:18 by GxMedia Reroduced from the Fiji Times Online TWO Guyana nationals from South America were admitted to the bar at the High Court in Suva after midday today. The admission ceremony was presided over by Chief Justice Anthony Gates. Andrew Liverpool, 25, and Shinella Andrea Ghent, 27, both graduated with a law ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 July 2015, 17:06 by GxMedia by Zena Henry The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has upheld a ruling prohibiting the Guyana Telephone and Telegram Company (GTT) from denying internet access to one of its customers who made and received international calls using Voice over Internet Protocol (“VoIP”); technology provided by US Company Vonage. The ruling ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 July 2015, 15:25 by GxMedia The Commission of Inquiry asked by the Government of Guyana to investigate the operations of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has continued its work and will complete the first round of factory visits Tuesday with a five-member team visiting the Uitvlugt factory. Visits were conducted at all the other estates ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 July 2015, 15:08 by GxMedia Leading activists of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) and the lawyer for the Presidential Commission of Inquiry are upset that the probe into the bomb-blast death of Dr. Walter Rodney 35 years ago will be wrapped up without the testimony of key witnesses. At the same time, they said sufficient evidence has ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 July 2015, 0:30 by GxMedia Attorney General (AG) and Legal Affairs Minister, Basil Williams, says the money owed by the Government of Guyana (GoG) to Surinamese beverage company, Rudisa Beverages and Juices, has increased to $1.6 billion due to government’s failure to pay the initial amount of $1.2 billion in a timely manner. The AG ...