Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 April 2017, 20:58 by Denis Chabrol United States-based Guyanese could soon be asked to pay more to send their relatives and friends a ‘small piece’ or a ‘frek’ if a Bill is passed to impose a two percent tax on all remittances sent to Guyana and several other countries to help fund the construction of a US-Mexico ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 April 2017, 19:34 by Denis Chabrol The High Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) to hold its elections, despite efforts by a group of union members to stop the polls on the grounds that the accounts had not been audited for several years. The Union said the elections ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 April 2017, 18:52 by Denis Chabrol The High Court on Tuesday blocked Guyanese police from seizing several lawbooks from former Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall after he moved to the courts to prove that the reading material is his personal property. He said in court documents that he opted for legal ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 April 2017, 17:34 by Denis Chabrol A young woman was Tuesday handed down an eight-year jail sentence for killing her best friend in 2015. Justice Navindra Singh deducted two years for time already served during her incarceration. In 2015, Lloyda Renita Thomas met her demise after her former best friend Angelique Williams also known as ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 April 2017, 14:45 by Denis Chabrol The Ministry of the Presidency said Mr Basil Blackman is not an official of that top government ministry, almost one year he was named by Minister of State, Joseph Harmon as an honorary adviser. “The Ministry of the Presidency wishes to inform all and sundry that Mr. Basil Blackman ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 April 2017, 14:11 by Denis Chabrol The two persons, who are implicated in an alleged plot to commit treason, on Tuesday confronted each other in the presence of police investigators at the headquarters of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID). CID Head, Superintendent Wendell Blanhum said the man, who reported the alleged plot to commit treason, ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 April 2017, 14:46 by Denis Chabrol Government’s Honorary Adviser, Basil Blackman on Tuesday denied that a man named in an alleged plot to assassinate President David Granger was at his recently held birthday party. Blackman at first told Demerara Waves Online News that several persons were in attendance and he did not know everyone who ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 April 2017, 12:50 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) on Tuesday appealed to customers to be patient with Internet “outages” they may experience as the company takes high-tech steps to ensure a faster and reliable service by the third quarter of this year. The telecoms provider said the upgrade, being undertaken ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 April 2017, 11:40 by Denis Chabrol A 57- year old Financial Consultant was Tuesday morning remanded after three fraud charges were laid against him. Clayton Alleyne of 179 South Bel Air stood before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan and pleaded not guilty to the charges which alleged that between November 3 2016 and February 8 2017 he obtained ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 April 2017, 11:00 by Denis Chabrol Hundreds of Cuban passengers, who were stranded in Guyana for several days now, on Tuesday began leaving the country after the Honduras-based Easy Sky airline was granted temporary permission to fly here, Director General of the Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), Retired Col. Egbert Field said. “They began to correct ...