Last Updated on Wednesday, 21 October 2015, 15:13 by GxMedia MAGISTRATE Sueanna Lovell  Wednesday disregarded pleas from Lawyer Satesh Kissoon for bail to be granted to cutlass wielding former policeman Shawn Maltus Fordyce, who went berserk back in 2013 and alleged chopped several members of his family. Fordyce, 42, of Lot 132 ‘D’ Field, Sophia, Greater Georgetown, was not required ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 21 October 2015, 14:33 by GxMedia The Commission of Inquiry into the cash-strapped Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) has not recommended the closure of any of the sugar estates, but wants studies to be conducted on those at West Demerara where the production costs are high, according to well-placed sources. “There is no plan to close any ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 21 October 2015, 11:05 by GxMedia (NEW YORK’S newsday.com) A New York Police Department (NYPD) plainclothes officer died late Tuesday night at a Harlem hospital after a suspect shot him in the head during a foot pursuit in East Harlem, Police Commissioner William Bratton said at a news conference at the hospital. Bratton identified the slain officer ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 October 2015, 18:47 by GxMedia An Aviation Security agent attached to a private company contracted by an airline was fired for stealing US currency from an outgoing passenger at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), the airport said in a statement. The passenger was about to board a Caribbean Airlines flight to New York when ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 October 2015, 17:42 by GxMedia While a United States-headquartered airline company is looking to expand its reaches and invest in the local agricultural sector, it may have some tussles to overcome before it can do such. Dynamic Airways on Tuesday announced that it would be looking to fill a ten-tonne space on its daily flights ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 October 2015, 16:01 by GxMedia At 0820h. today Tuesday October 20, 2015, Marc Angoy of Buzz Bee Dam, Craig, EBD, turned himself in to the police at Grove Police Station. He was wanted by the police in relation to the murder of thirteen-month-old Arianne Gill who was shot and killed on October 18, 2015, in ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 October 2015, 15:38 by GxMedia A long-standing member of Guyana’s private sector corps has given his no objection to the recent move by the APNU+AFC administration to increase the salaries of Government Ministers by 50%. The move, which has attracted criticism and condemnation from others, Former Private Sector Commission (PSC) Chairman Gerry Gouveia says that ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 October 2015, 3:34 by GxMedia (TIMES UNION).- A citizen of Guyana admitted trafficking more than $400,000 worth of fake credit cards in grocery stores across New York and New England after an investigation by the Secret Service. Georgette Jackman, 37, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court Oct. 16 in Albany to conspiracy to commit access device fraud, ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 October 2015, 1:14 by GxMedia Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo Monday night vowed to reverse the hefty salary increases to ministers if his People’s Progressive Party (PPP) wins the next general elections. ‎”When we win the elections we may very well do that…If we are opposed to it now, we will reverse it,” he told Demerara ...

Last Updated on Monday, 19 October 2015, 22:17 by GxMedia The National Industrial Commercial and Investments Limited (NICIL) on Monday denied that anyone has been creamed off funds from that holding company for government’s assets and rejected claims by a Forensic Auditor that its monies should have at all times been deposited into the Consolidated Fund. “The facts contained in ...