Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 April 2016, 16:16 by Denis Chabrol Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman on Wednesday acknowledged that the provision of an aircraft to Minister of State Joseph Harmon by existing and prospective Chinese investors in Guyana’s forestry sector for domestic travels to their locations in China could conflict with the proposed ministerial code of conduct and was sure ...
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Gov’t may pay US$1.5M to host CPL finals, five other games
Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 April 2016, 15:47 by The Government of Guyana may only end up paying the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) principals close to US$1.5M for the hosting of several games during this year’s tournament. Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman, on Wednesday confirmed that the Government has seized the opportunity to host six of the games for the ...
Read More »“You give me a break” – Bar association President storms out of COI
Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 April 2016, 13:32 by President of the Guyana Bar Association (GBA) Christopher Ram on Tuesday pulled the plug on the groups participation in the Camp Street Commission of Inquiry (CoI) after growing wary of the ‘unfair’ treatment being meted out to him by the Commission. The GBA had applied and was granted full participatory rights ...
Read More »Contraband is a multi-million jail enterprise – Deputy Director of Prisons
Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 April 2016, 13:29 by Deputy Director of Guyana’s Prisons Gladwin Samuels has stated that the distribution and sale of contraband in Guyana’s prison system is a multi-million dollar industry and his stern footing against it may have led to him being disliked by the inmates at the Camp Street Prison. Samuels made the statement ...
Read More »New NCN CEO suggests controversy over appointment orchestrated to pick someone else
Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 April 2016, 7:34 by Denis Chabrol Incoming Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Communications Network (NCN), Lennox Cornette says the questioning of his integrity and competence clearly indicates that someone else was hand-picked for the job. “From the leaked emails from the NCN Board discussion to what is being said in media reports, it ...
Read More »Deputy Director of Prisons denies instructing that prisoners be left to burn to death
Last Updated on Tuesday, 19 April 2016, 21:49 by Denis Chabrol Deputy Director of the Guyana Prison Service, Gladwin Samuels on Tuesday bluntly denied claims by several prisoners that he had instructed that a door at the Georgetown Prison be locked and allowed a number of inmates to burn. “I would not have, Sir, more so in a prison environment” he ...
Read More »Mother dead, father injured in accident during search for son
Last Updated on Tuesday, 19 April 2016, 20:45 by Denis Chabrol A woman was Tuesday night killed in a road accident and her common-law husband seriously injured after they left hurriedly on a CBR motorbike in search of their son. Dead is Shauna Rice and injured is Steve Fiedtkou. Eyewitnesses said a car slammed into the couple on Mandela Avenue, ...
Read More »Woman rescued after jumping from Harbour Bridge
Last Updated on Tuesday, 19 April 2016, 14:51 by A woman was on Tuesday recused from the clutches of death in the Demerara River after she plunged in an apparent suicide attempt. Information reaching Demerara Waves indicates that the woman plunged from the Demerara Harbour Bridge shortly before noon on Tuesday. Death would not be her fate as two men ...
Read More »Wakenaam businessman gunned down in botched Bourda robbery
Last Updated on Tuesday, 19 April 2016, 12:52 by Police are on the hunt for a man who shot and killed a 26-year-old businessman on Tuesday at Robb and Alexander Streets Bourda. Demerara Wave understand that 26-year-old Mahendra Persaud of Wakenaam had travelled to the City to buy goods for his family’s business when the incident occurred. Persaud reportedly came ...
Read More »Body of missing woman found in canal
Last Updated on Tuesday, 19 April 2016, 10:36 by Denis Chabrol The body of a woman, who was last seen leaving her home to uplift a package, was Tuesday morning discovered in a canal at Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara. Investigators believe that the body is that of Simone Hackett who went missing days ago. The 25-year old Hackett left ...
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