Last Updated on Saturday, 21 November 2015, 16:53 by GxMedia Another young woman jumped off the Kaieteur Falls Saturday morning, two months after a woman committed suicde  by the same means, multiple sources confirmed. She has been identified as 21-year old Roshinee Pagwah. It was not immediately confirmed that she died. Pagwah, according to sources, ran and jumped over the ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 21 November 2015, 13:47 by GxMedia The Guyana government has intervened in the ongoing controversy between the overwhelming majority of domestic airlines and the management of the Ogle Airport Inc. While Minister of State, Joseph Harmon has said the dispute is a private matter and that the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) would be concerned only ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 21 November 2015, 13:25 by GxMedia Veteran Guyanese  pilot, Captain Alvin Clarke succumbed early Saturday morning to cancer, plunging the aviation sector into grief at the loss of a man who was well-respected in emergency medical evacuations (medivacs). President of the National Air Transportation Association (NATA), Annette Arjoon-Martins told Demerara Waves Online News that Clarke would ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 21 November 2015, 12:39 by GxMedia Veteran Guyanese journalist, Rashid Osman, died suddenly early Saturday morning. He was 78 years old. Up to the time of his passing, he had been an editor at the state-owned Guyana Chronicle where he had worked for several decades. Osman is also best remembered for his radio programme, Midmorning Classics, ...

Last Updated on Friday, 20 November 2015, 22:33 by GxMedia Guyana is among several Caribbean Community (Caricom) member nations that will benefit from a five-year agreement to fight violence among youths and HIV/AIDS, the American embassy here announced Friday. The agreement covers US$165 million in projects to be delivered. The signing will spearhead USAID’s 2015-2019 Regional Development Cooperation Strategy that covers ...

Last Updated on Friday, 20 November 2015, 22:31 by GxMedia The man, who was caught swallowing cocaine, at an East Coast Demerara hotel was Friday  fined and jailed, but a charge was dropped against his accomplice who was also arrested in the hotel room. City Magistrate, Judy Latchman fined Dwayne Adams of 38 Will Street, Golden Grove GYD$2.8 million and sentenced ...

Last Updated on Friday, 20 November 2015, 22:06 by GxMedia Despite claims to the contrary, Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC)  Retired Major General Norman McLean says that it is time the Guyana Police Force take a more strategic approach to the manner in which crime is handled in Guyana. McLean, a former Chief-of-Staff of the Guyana Defence Force ...

Last Updated on Friday, 20 November 2015, 18:12 by GxMedia After more than a month of being absent from the public eye, Minister of State Joseph Harmon has returned to the public scene and is apologizing for a comment he made regarding the increase of salaries for Government Ministers. Harmon on October 6 had made it pellucid that he had ...

Last Updated on Friday, 20 November 2015, 17:59 by GxMedia Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan has revealed that the APNU+AFC administration has named a date for local government elections. Bulkan at a press conference on Friday, stated that LGE would be held on March 18, 2016. “Local government is about handing decision-making power to the people to enable them to ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 19 November 2015, 20:14 by GxMedia A third person was Thursday arraigned for allegedly ambushing and robbing several money changers on America Street, Georgetown earlier this month. Thirty-four year old Calvin Johnson of 154 East Ruimveldt Housing Scheme, Georgetown was charged with robbing Rayburn Fraser and Osafo Warde at gunpoint on November 3, 2015. Johnson allegedly ...