Last Updated on Wednesday, 7 December 2016, 14:20 by Denis Chabrol Police and a suspected bandit traded gunshots in the yard of the St. Phillips Anglican Church, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown, considered a major hot-spot for robberies. There is no indication that the man was shot, but he police said he dropped a .38 revolver and three rounds before fleeing the scene. ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 7 December 2016, 13:46 by Denis Chabrol Elections for Georgetown’s new Mayor and Deputy Mayor have been announced but Deputy Mayor Sherod Duncan is calling for a debate among the candidates before the December 15 election. “I call on any Councillor(s) contending for the position of Mayor, as I am, to let’s have a public discourse/debate ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 6 December 2016, 16:58 by Denis Chabrol Minister of State Joseph Harmon is convinced that the ‘doom and gloom’ positions take on Budget 2017 is a result of scare tactics used by the Opposition PPP, that is reflective on similar tactics used on the Anti-Money Laundering legislation in the last Parliament. “Complaints by the Opposition that ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 6 December 2016, 17:43 by Denis Chabrol At least 21 Guyanese deportees arrived from the United States (US) Tuesday afternoon, after serving jail terms for various offences. Head of the Guyana Police Force’s (GPF) Criminal Investigations Department, Senior Superintendent Wendell Blanhum said the deportees were convicted for homicide, narcotics, robbery and other offences. Blanhum said the ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 6 December 2016, 16:35 by Denis Chabrol A 29 year old male supervisor was Tuesday afternoon nursing a gunshot wound to his right thigh, having been robbed and shot by one of two bandits in the compound of the Ministry of Finance . The incident occurred at about 12:55 PM.  Investigations revealed that the victim John Bryan ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 6 December 2016, 14:47 by Denis Chabrol Opposition parliamentarian Nigel Dharamlall is convinced government parliamentarians are not as honest about their feelings toward budget 2017 as they are letting out. The MP believes a lie-detector test would help to set the record straight. Dharamlall proposed lie-detector test for the government parliamentarians were among a list of ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 6 December 2016, 13:41 by Denis Chabrol Opposition MP and former Culture, Youth and Sport Minister, Dr Frank Anthony had the National Assembly in an uproar this morning when he rose in the House to declare the new 14% value added taxes for a number of items is a tax on safe-sex, as well as the ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 6 December 2016, 13:26 by Denis Chabrol With 17% of $250B in budget 2017 allocated to the education sector, Education Minister Dr Rupert Roopnaraine announced in the national assembly a new medical school for the University of Guyana as well as ten new counselling rooms in secondary schools. The schools identified include Cummings Lodge, Richard Ishmael, ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 6 December 2016, 18:30 by Denis Chabrol Guyana on Tuesday rubbished claims that there is a massive foreign exchange shortage, but he said that buyers from sister CARICOM countries having been taking out United States (US) dollars from this country. “The issue as it relates to the Trinidad and Barbados currencies flooding our market will be looked ...

Last Updated on Monday, 5 December 2016, 14:40 by Denis Chabrol “Shocking”, “unconscionable”, were the words used by Opposition MP Priya Manickchand to describe Budget 2017. “Brace yourself Guyana, these are the things that are going to come,” Manickchand said in her description of the 2017 budget. The MP Opposition told the National Assembly during her address on the budget ...