Last Updated on Friday, 3 June 2016, 21:09 by Denis Chabrol The then People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC)-led administration paid out  GYD$28 million to 35 persons over a four-year period from the National Communications Network (NCN) to perform duties on instructions from the Office of the President. The auditor, Parmessar Chartered Accountants, recommended that action be taken to recover the ...

Last Updated on Friday, 3 June 2016, 19:09 by Denis Chabrol The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) was not invoiced for more than GYD$22 million in political advertisements for the 2011 and 2015 general elections on the state-owned National Communications Network (NCN), according to a forensic audit report released Friday by the Finance Ministry. That figure includes almost $13 million in ...

Last Updated on Friday, 3 June 2016, 12:45 by Denis Chabrol Five men, who attacked several fishermen aboard a vessel in Nickerie, Suriname, were Friday charged with the murder of one of the victims. The Guyana Police Force said the Director of Public Prosecutions, Shalimar Ali-Hack advised that the men be charged for the offence. “The act was allegedly committed ...

Last Updated on Friday, 3 June 2016, 12:29 by Denis Chabrol MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Russian state arms exporter Rosoboronexport has held talks on supplying Russian defense systems to the Co-operative Republic of Guyana with the country’s leadership, the corporation said Friday. Talks between the Rosoboronexport delegation, headed by deputy chief executive Sergei Goreslavsky, and the political and military leadership of the Co-operative ...

Last Updated on Friday, 3 June 2016, 12:12 by Denis Chabrol Two men long suspected of hiring cocaine mules to export the illicit drug out of Guyana were Friday slapped with charges of procuring at least three persons. They are Rolston Bacchus and Troy Sauers also known as Randy, Muslim and Biggs. They appeared before Chief Magistrate, Mc Lennan to ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 2 June 2016, 22:51 by Denis Chabrol Former Public Works Minister, Jules “Dickie” Kranenburg has died and would be cremated later this month. He was 83 years old. Relatives said he died on May 30, 2016 after a “short illness.” Kranenburg, who served as Minister of Public Works from 1986 to 1992,  is scheduled to be cremated ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 2 June 2016, 22:25 by Denis Chabrol Reproduced from New York Daily News The dangerous fugitive wanted for killing a teenage Brooklyn baby-sitter turned himself in Thursday. Taariq Stephens, a 24-year-old man with a half-dozen prior arrests and a .40-caliber submachine gun, was identified two days after the cold-blooded shooting of 16-year-old Shemel Mercurius as her ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 2 June 2016, 15:59 by Denis Chabrol The man, who allegedly snatched jewellery from a former British soldier who is visiting  Guyana for its 50th Independence Anniversary, on Thursday pleaded not guilty to the charge. He is Jose Barker, 35, of Howes Street, Charlestown, Georgetown who was positively identified by the ex-serviceman, Edward John Constant.  Barker ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 2 June 2016, 11:27 by Denis Chabrol A security guard was Tuesday night hacked to death by her husband while she was on duty an East Coast Demerara secondary school and later surrendered to police. One of the dead woman’s colleagues, who tried to prevent the man from entering the  Bygeval Secondary School Compound, was also ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 2 June 2016, 11:06 by Denis Chabrol Robbers early Wednesday morning tied up the guards at the Region Four Office at Triumph before breaking into the building and carting off an undisclosed sum of cash, police said. Investigators said that at about 2 AM on June 2, 2016 four men armed with handguns stormed the Regional ...