Last Updated on Monday, 20 February 2017, 19:51 by Derwayne Wills Three GDF officers were today granted $50,000 bail by city Magistrate Leron Daly when they were charged with stealing up to $211,000 in milk and butter from Camp Ayanganna. The court heard that between February 13 and 14, 2017, the trio stole 11 bags of milk totaling 25kg at ...

Last Updated on Monday, 20 February 2017, 18:24 by Derwayne Wills While Attorney General Basil Williams SC is convinced President David Granger is immune from legal action in revoking the Red House lease, former AG Anil Nandlall contends this should not be, since the President has not been named in the matter. Instead, Nandlall told Demerara Waves Online News, the ...

Last Updated on Monday, 20 February 2017, 16:15 by Derwayne Wills Former permanent secretary at the Ministry of the Presidency, Omar Sharif, and his reputed wife, Savitri Hardio, will go on trial on March 6 for failure to provide Court-requested documents to the police. Both Sharif and Hardio were charged separately late January for refusing to provide named documents to ...

Last Updated on Monday, 20 February 2017, 14:14 by Derwayne Wills Legal proceedings brought by New Building Society (NBS) against Communities Minister, Ronald Bulkan, and Georgetown Town Clerk, Royston King, commenced this morning in the courtroom of Justice Brassington Reynolds, where both parties were given until March 6 to file and serve affidavits in response to the order. Neither Bulkan ...

Last Updated on Monday, 20 February 2017, 12:53 by Denis Chabrol The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) on Monday warned of increased tension and unrest by sugar workers if they are sacked due to the closure of more sugar estates, even as that party demanded that a socio-economic impact study be done before government decides on the Guyana Sugar Corporation’s (GuySuco) ...

Last Updated on Monday, 20 February 2017, 10:31 by Denis Chabrol With no major change in the parking meter rates for the vast majority of motorists, the boycott of the meters continued Monday. The resumption of paid parking after one week of consultations saw most designated areas being vacant. Except for a 50 percent reduction for eight hours of parking, ...

Last Updated on Monday, 20 February 2017, 8:42 by Denis Chabrol Even a cursory look at ongoing developments makes it clear that no lessons are learned from prior mistakes, prior times, and prior regimes.  It is not one place or group where this becomes apparent, but in a more than a few sensitive places and involving unreconstructed people positioned to ...

Last Updated on Monday, 20 February 2017, 8:22 by Denis Chabrol Fire late Sunday night destroyed the house which was occupied by popular disc jockey, Delroy  “DJ Magnum” Romeo, at Goed Intent Public Road, West Bank Demerara. Fire Chief Marlon Gentle said investigators suspect that the fire was the work of arsonists. “Based on the evidence and information, it is ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 18 February 2017, 21:39 by Denis Chabrol The Private Sector Commission and the Guyana government on Saturday  continued to be at loggerheads over the business community’s ‘no confidence’ in managing the country’s economy as well as concerns about the constitutionality of a proposed law to recover stolen state assets, and alleged political interference in the judiciary. ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 18 February 2017, 20:43 by Denis Chabrol Lawyers associated with the Movement Against Parking Meters (MAPM) said there are legal and other grounds for the deal to be revoked, and different opinions have emerged over whether reactivation of paid parking on Monday will amount to contempt of court. Speaking at a public consultation at the St. ...