Last Updated on Saturday, 5 December 2015, 23:06 by GxMedia The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) Saturday night says its Chairman, Clinton Williams, was not alone in securing interests in mining permits because it was the embattled Commissioner, Rickford Vieria, who had granted approval. According to the statement, Williams is not the only GGMC Board member who has mining ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 5 December 2015, 18:14 by GxMedia Police said that at about 1030h. today Saturday December 05, 2015, police ranks on “Operation Dragnet” stopped a motor vehicle with obscure number plates at Regent Street and Avenue of the Republic, Georgetown. Investigators said a search was conducted during which an unlicensed sawn-off pump action shotgun and an unlicensed ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 5 December 2015, 13:56 by GxMedia A Surinamese woman, who was convicted for drug trafficking, escaped from the New Amsterdam Prison early Saturday morning. A high-ranking olice officer in the Berbice Division said the woman was re-arrested at Springlands before she could have crossed the Corentyne River to her native country. The police officer said the ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 5 December 2015, 5:01 by GxMedia A policeman and another man have confessed to  hijacking a car and robbing the driver late last month. Police said diligent investigations by the police led to the arrest of two suspect Thursday December 03, 2015, in connection with an armed robbery committed on a taxi-driver at Bachelor Adventure, East ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 5 December 2015, 4:46 by GxMedia Three suspected bandits were Friday afternoon nabbed shortly robbing the AH&L Kissoon outlet on Main Street, Georgetown. Police said that at about 2:45 PM Friday December 04, 2015, three men armed with handguns entered the outlet and held up the supervisor, a clerk and a customer and took away an undisclosed sum ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 5 December 2015, 4:43 by GxMedia The fate of  Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) Commissioner, Rickford Vieria and a number of other senior officials of that regulatory agency up to Friday hanged in the balance, as all parties await government’s response to a recommendation by the Board of Directors. The Board has also considered the ...