Last Updated on Sunday, 27 November 2016, 9:07 by Denis Chabrol An East Ruimveldt resident is presently in a serious condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, after being shot thrice about his body during an exchange of gunfire. Police said the man was shot by a licensed firearm holder about 02:00 hrs Sunday morning at the Wings and Things ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 27 November 2016, 7:10 by Denis Chabrol Demerara Bank Limited’s (DBL) Corporate Headquarters is now fully powered by solar energy at a cost of GYD$27.5 million, an amount the company hopes to recoup in another three years because it no longer has to pay electricity bills totalling about GYD$1.5 million monthly. The bank says it will ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 27 November 2016, 6:39 by Denis Chabrol President David Granger Saturday afternoon joined with the family of the late Claude Alphonso Merriman C.C.H. J.P to unveil a bust at the Merriman’s Mall, Vlissengen Road. Mr. Merriman was born on November 29, 1912 at Werk-en-Rust Georgetown and died in 1995. The bust was sculpted by Mr. Ivor Thom.  The ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 November 2016, 20:30 by Denis Chabrol President David Granger on Saturday rejected claims by a group of United States-based Guyanese that he is elitist and has repeatedly avoided meeting with ordinary Guyanese in New York. “My reaction is that those descriptions are erroneous,” he said when asked by Demerara Waves to respond to claims by several ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 November 2016, 19:48 by Denis Chabrol Several Guyana Defence Force (GDF) soldiers have flown to Barbados to help that sister Caribbean Community (Caricom) member state celebrate its 50th Independence Anniversary, Chief-of-Staff Brigadier George Lewis confirmed Saturday. Lewis said 21 soldiers are there for paratroop and fireworks display, and five more are expected to join their ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 November 2016, 13:12 by Denis Chabrol Guyana’s High Commissioner to India, David Pollard was recently recalled to Georgetown for consultations and he has since returned to Delhi, Foreign Affairs Minister Carl Greenidge said Saturday. “It is not unusual to ask Ambassadors to come and consult…If you call an Ambassador to come and speak to you, ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 November 2016, 12:17 by Denis Chabrol The way is almost clear for Guyana’s Ambassador-designate to Kuwait, Dr. Shamir Ally to present his credentials to authorities there, now that Georgetown has almost finished its probe into his past legal troubles in the United States (US). Foreign Affairs Minister, Carl Greenidge said Saturday that the probe into ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 November 2016, 11:53 by Denis Chabrol Chief-of-Staff of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), Brigadier George Lewis and President David Granger on Sunday said further measures are being taken to crackdown on criminal activities across the country with increased aerial surveillance and ground operations. Addressing troops at D’urban Park at the end of a rout march ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 November 2016, 10:58 by Denis Chabrol President David Granger and Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo on Saturday joined world leaders in mourning the passing of Cuba’s former President, Fidel Castro. “We are deeply saddened by the passing of President Castro. His life was of significance not only to Guyana and the friendship that he had with ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 November 2016, 5:02 by Denis Chabrol REUTERS: Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and for five decades defied U.S. efforts to topple him, died on Friday, his younger brother announced to the nation. He was 90. (Guyana and Cuba established diplomatic relations in 1972. ...