Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 February 2017, 23:40 by Denis Chabrol Four Guyanese, who were caught aboard a St. Vincent-registered fishing vessel with more than US$70 million worth of cocaine, are due to return to a United States Virgin Islands court on Wednesday for a detention hearing. Mohamed Nazim Hoseain,64,  Richard La Cruz,49,  Neville Jeffrey,68, and 30-year old Mark Anthony ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 February 2017, 20:52 by Denis Chabrol Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo has  told President David Granger that he would be submitting another list of six names from which he is expected to pick one as the next Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) said in a statement. “In the interest of moving ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 February 2017, 21:17 by Denis Chabrol Businessman Roshan Khan, on Tuesday (February 28) spearheaded a picketing exercise, in protest of the new Value Added Tax (VAT) regime imposed recently, by the coalition A Partnership for National Unity, Alliance for Change (APNU-AFC) Government, outside of the Guyana Revenue Authority’s (GRA) Camp Street Headquarters and called on ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 February 2017, 15:20 by Derwayne Wills An East Canje woman, who was arrested with her daughter recently for 6 kilogrammes and 216 grammes of cannabis for the trafficking, was today charged and remanded by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan until March 8. Suzette Samantha LaFleur, represented by attorney Paul Fung-A-Fat, pleaded not guilty to the charge ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 February 2017, 15:02 by Derwayne Wills A Port Kaituma man was today charged and remanded until May 9 by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan for illegal firearm and ammo possession. The charge against 25-year-old Carryl Price read that on February 23, at Port Kaituma, he had the weapon with matching ammo in his possession, without being ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 February 2017, 13:19 by Denis Chabrol Guyana’s two major parties are seeking to install someone of their choice Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) ahead of “historic” general elections in 2020, outgoing Chairman of the country’s elections management authority, Dr. Steve Surujbally said Tuesday. Surujbally, who had since August 2016 told President David Granger and ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 February 2017, 12:31 by Denis Chabrol Outgoing Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission, Dr. Steve Surujbally on Tuesday believed that future Chairpersons should be a judge or eligible to be judge because the Constitution appears to be prefer such a legal luminary. “The issue for me, the crucial words for me would be fit and ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 February 2017, 11:27 by Derwayne Wills Justice Brassington Reynolds will, on Thursday, rule whether the Court has the jurisdiction to hear the legal challenge against the parking meter regime. Georgetown Town Clerk Royston King made an application, late February, questioning the jurisdiction of the High Court, under the new Civil Procedures rules, to deal with ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 February 2017, 14:11 by Denis Chabrol (The Daily Mail).-The U.S. Coast Guard seized 4.2 tons of cocaine in the largest maritime bust of the drug in the Atlantic for nearly 20 years. Four unnamed Guyanese were arrested aboard the fishing vessel, Lady Michelle, and taken to the United States Virgin Islands. Authorities seized the drugs ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 February 2017, 5:26 by Denis Chabrol UNITED NATIONS — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday appointed a Norwegian diplomat who dealt with the Colombian peace process to try to settle the longstanding border controversy between Venezuela and Guyana by the end of the year, the Associated Press reported. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric announced the appointment of ...