Last Updated on Friday, 29 April 2016, 12:52 by President David Granger has made it clear that his administration is not in the business of politically interfering with the day to day operations of Guyana’s state media entities. The President made the statement on the heels of accusations of political interference being leveled against the Office of the Prime Minister. ...

Last Updated on Friday, 29 April 2016, 11:37 by By Jomo Brusheildon Paul Members of the local media fraternity have been urged to keep gory details and photographs of accidents and similar scenes off the front pages and away from featured images. The nudge came at a workshop organised by the Guyana Press Association (GPA) and the Pan American Health ...

Last Updated on Friday, 29 April 2016, 10:13 by Denis Chabrol Five persons including one police officer are now nursing gunshot wounds after armed men stormed the Hotel Ramada Casino at Providence, East Bank Demerara (EBD). Police officials have confirmed that just after 3:30 on Friday morning , the four men stormed the building brandishing weapons and demanding cash. It ...

Last Updated on Friday, 29 April 2016, 7:23 by Forty-year-old Nerissa Spencer of Buxton East Coast Demerara was struck down on Lamaha Street on Thursday evening while making her way to teach an aerobics class. Reports indicate that just after 19:00 hrs, a car being driven by a teenager was proceeding along Lamaha Street when the driver apparently lost control ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 28 April 2016, 21:03 by Social Cohesion Minister Amna Ally says that since the APNU+AFC administration took office and established a Ministry of Social Cohesion, notable progress has been made in society with more people lending a hand for the cause. During an interview with Demerara Waves on Thursday, Ally made the disclosure asserting that the ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 28 April 2016, 21:24 by Police say that prisoners being held at the Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara Police Station managed to set fire to the station lockups after being denied cigarettes. According to a statement from the police at about 06:30 hrs on Thursday prisoners in the lockups were taken out of their cells by ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 28 April 2016, 13:27 by Hundreds of persons plying their trade in the environs of Stabroek Market were on Thursday summoned to a meeting at the Georgetown City Council where they were informed of a definite plan to relocate them “temporarily.’ The vendors sat under a tent in the compound as Town Clerk Royston King made ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 28 April 2016, 11:38 by Denis Chabrol About 2245h. last night Wednesday April 27, 2016, security guard Sattaur Kadeer, 53 years, of Foulis, ECD, was on duty at the Best Buy Hardware Store at Bladen Hall, ECD, when he challenged two men who had entered the compound from the back, police said.   During this, he ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 28 April 2016, 11:35 by Denis Chabrol   Police say investigations are being conducted into a fatal accident that occurred about 1700h. yesterday Wednesday April 27, 2016, at Belmont, Mahaica, ECD, and which resulted in the death of five-month-old Randy Williams of Belmont.   Initial investigations have revealed that the driver of a motor lorry was ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 April 2016, 14:50 by Denis Chabrol Despite a lack of support by the Guyana government, a team of Guyanese athletes on Wednesday journeyed to the United States (US) to participate in the Penn Relay after Fly Jamaica Airlines and a Jamaican organisation bailed them out of their woes. The Penn Relay festival , which is ...