Last Updated on Sunday, 19 July 2015, 22:13 by GxMedia Guyana on Sunday warned it would “stoutly resist” plans by Venezuela to register residents in Essequibo and issue them identification cards for the neighbouring Spanish-speaking nation, even as a United States-based Political Scientist has urged government to aggressively educate Guyanese about Venezuela’s territorial claim to the Essequibo Region. “We will ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 19 July 2015, 19:34 by GxMedia A United States (US)-based Guyanese Political Scientist and security expert has urged the ruling coalition to engage in all-out efforts be made by the ruling coalition, several top officials are ex senior members of the security forces, to keep its electoral promise to reduce the high incidence of crime. “Part ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 19 July 2015, 14:33 by GxMedia by Zena Henry Minister of Public Health Dr. George Norton has opted to hire a Deputy Director of the Vector Control Department to temper a bitter row between the head of that department and staffers. A letter of complaint dated June17, by Keith Moore, Senior Training officer, Global Fund-Malaria, was ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 19 July 2015, 14:15 by GxMedia Guyanese police on Sunday said the man arrested in connection with the shooting death of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing could be charged shortly. Head of the Criminal Investigations Department, Senior Superintendent Wendell Blanhum told Demerara Waves Online News that the arrest, which marks a “significant development” in the probe, was ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 18 July 2015, 20:49 by GxMedia An employee of the Department of Culture, Youth and Sport was among several persons arrested in connection with the death of a middle-age man Saturday afternoon as a result of a road accident on the Essequibo Coast. Dead is Derek “Pudding” Glasgow of Queenstown, Essequibo Coast. He was a labourer. ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 18 July 2015, 15:58 by GxMedia A man has been arrested by police in connection with the beating and stabbing to death of another man who allegedly hacked a woman to death and chopped her husband, Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud said Saturday. He said the detainee allegedly identified the suspected killer at the Stabroek Market area ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 18 July 2015, 15:33 by GxMedia Buoyed by a 15 percent reduction in serious crimes last year due attributed to a Social Crime Prevention Programme, the Guyana Police Force on Saturday widened the involvement of the religious community in helping to building trust between police and the public. Police Commissioner said since the engagement of a ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 18 July 2015, 10:19 by GxMedia Presidential Advisor on National Security, Brigadier Edward Collins on Friday kicked off a four-day outreach to law enforcement agencies in Berbice, the Ministry of the Presidency said in a statement. This is the first of a series of such outreaches to be carried out across the country with the aim ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 18 July 2015, 10:02 by GxMedia Reproduced from El Universal In the Summit of the Common Market of the South (Mercosur) on Friday, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced that a special meeting will be held within the framework of the regional body to address a border dispute between Guyana and Venezuela. “I would like to thank ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 18 July 2015, 1:36 by GxMedia Trans Guyana Airways (TGA) on Friday highlighted that it was not responsible for the crash of a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan that killed a Canadian pilot and a Guyanese cargo loader, but announced that steps in line with several other findings have been put in place to cushion the impact ...