Last Updated on Sunday, 6 March 2016, 22:59 by Denis Chabrol Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo on Sunday urged supporters of his People’s Progressive Party (PPP) to vote solidy at the upcoming local government elections to act as a buffer against some of central government’s discriminatory policies. At the same time, he called on PPP members, when elected councillors at the ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 6 March 2016, 13:52 by Forty-eight-year-old Deodat Ram of of Helena No.2, Mahaica is now dead after he was struck down by a motorcycle on Saturday evening. Police in a release stated that the fatal accident occurred at approximately 23:40hrs on Saturday evening. Investigators suspect that Ram was struck down by a motor cyclist while he ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 5 March 2016, 18:40 by Denis Chabrol   One of two men died after a route 41 minibus crashed into a car on Aubrey Barker Road South Ruimveldt. The dead man has been identified as William Trim. The survivor is said to be nursing serious wounds about the body. The Guyana Fire Service was summoned to the ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 5 March 2016, 14:25 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has decided to probe the procurement of US$500,000 worth of ballot papers and other sensitive material for the upcoming Local Government Elections (LGE) but the Chairman of that elections management authority, Dr. Steve Surujbally said it is too early to speak about a forensic ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 5 March 2016, 8:18 by Denis Chabrol Guyana Goldfields has drilled GYD$20 million into several major social welfare projects across the country under its Children’s Needs Development Initiative. The presentations by Guyana Goldfields Inc./Aurora Gold Mines Inc’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on Wednesday February 24, 2016 at the Herdmandston Lodge, Peter Rose and Lamaha Streets, Georgetown. Guyana Gold Fields ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 5 March 2016, 7:50 by Denis Chabrol Almost one year after a man stabbed his girlfriend to death at Sophia, Greater Georgetown, he was caught Friday in Linden and has already admitted to killing her. Shivanand Roopnarine  has been already brought to Georgetown for questioning . He is facing  a charge of murder. Police have long identified ...

Last Updated on Friday, 4 March 2016, 23:44 by Denis Chabrol Almost 10 months after being elected to office, Guyana Friday named diplomats to several major countries around the world except the United States (US) and Brazil. Government had previously said that a number of its nominees had been undergoing security screening by the countries to which they are expected ...

Last Updated on Friday, 4 March 2016, 17:38 by Denis Chabrol   Even as police still cordon off the area surrounding the Georgetown, Camp Street prison, the APNU+AFC administration has convened a commission of Inquiry into the circumstances that led to the prison unrest that saw 17 prisoners being Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan on Friday afternoon revealed that the ...

Last Updated on Friday, 4 March 2016, 17:23 by   Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan has revealed that effective immediately, the Deputy Director of Prisons Gladwin Samuels has been asked to proceed on leave following the unrest at the Camp Street prison. Samuels, along with Officer in Charge of the Camp Street Prison Kevin Pilgrim were fingered by prisoners on ...

Last Updated on Friday, 4 March 2016, 17:14 by Denis Chabrol Western diplomats, preparing to observe the upcoming Local Government Elections (LGE), have given the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) high marks for preparations for the polls, but the country’s leading business organisation believes that more voter education could have been done. “We are confident that the preparations that would have ...