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Monthly Archives: August 2017

AK-47 rifle, ammo found in city

Last Updated on Friday, 18 August 2017, 21:10 by Denis Chabrol Police said a haversack containing AK-47 assault rifle and several rounds of a variety of ammunition was found Friday evening in a clump of bushes in north-western Georgetown. The Guyana Police Force said lawmen received information and went to a bushy area in Kingston at about 6:30 PM when ...

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14 persons hurt after minibus slams into tractor trailer – driver was allegedly drunk at the time.

Last Updated on Friday, 18 August 2017, 19:56 by Denis Chabrol Four children are currently hospitalized while several adults are nursing injuries about their body after the minibus they were traveling in slammed into a tractor trailer on the No. 19 Public road, Corentyne late Thursday evening. From information gathered, the persons were reportedly heading back home after taking a ...

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Guillard, a devout Muslim, falsely swore with Bible at Granger assassination plot inquiry- Police Force lawyer

Last Updated on Friday, 18 August 2017, 19:29 by Denis Chabrol The man, who claimed that more than two years ago he was offered GYD$7 million and shown a long black gun with which to kill President David Granger, lied to the Commission of Inquiry because he swore with the Bible instead of the Quran, Attorney-at-Law for the Guyana Police ...

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Granger assassination plot inquiry: Lawyers differ over Police Commissioner Persaud’s involvement while on leave

Last Updated on Friday, 18 August 2017, 13:29 by Denis Chabrol Attorney-at-Law for the Guyana Police Force, Ian Chang on Friday said Mr. Seelall Persaud was still constitutionally Police Commissioner although he was on vacation and in keeping with the law, he called the most senior officer of the station at the the time. However, television journalist Travis Chase’s Attorney-at-Law, ...

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Mining syndicate protests not politically motivated; land allocations being fast-tracked- Raphael Trotman

Last Updated on Thursday, 17 August 2017, 18:35 by Denis Chabrol Even as Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman scoffed at suggestions that recent protests by small miners were orchestrated by A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) to undermine him, he Thursday said the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) has been instructed to grant thousands of acres of land ...

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City Council postpones deciding on parking meters’ future; SCS refused to disclose key financial information

Last Updated on Thursday, 17 August 2017, 17:44 by Denis Chabrol Georgetown’s Mayor and City Council on Thursday agreed to postpone a vote on the fate of the metered parking system until later this month to allow stakeholders and the wider public to read and comment on a report on metered parking that found that Smart City Solutions (SCS) withheld ...

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Constitutionality of Pres. Granger’s directive to the Police Service Commission challenged in Court

Last Updated on Thursday, 17 August 2017, 14:23 by Denis Chabrol   The constititionality of President David Granger’s decision to ask the Police Service Commission (PSC) to delay the promotion of officers is being challenged in the High Court. An applicant named Rajendra R. Jaigobin has filed legal proceedings against to declare that i) the Police Service Commission, a Commission established ...

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AFC’s Ramjattan doubts mining syndicate protests part of campaign to undercut Raphael Trotman

Last Updated on Thursday, 17 August 2017, 14:09 by Denis Chabrol Chairman of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Khemraj Ramjattan on Thursday dismissed suggestions that the People’s National Congress Reform-dominated A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) has been orchestrating protests against his party leader, Raphael Trotman. “I do not at this stage have any evidence that it is something being ...

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Guyana can use decade-old National Development Strategy as “skeleton” for new action plan

Last Updated on Thursday, 17 August 2017, 13:41 by Denis Chabrol Britain has signaled its willingness to help Guyana craft a plan of action to use massive oil revenues that are expected to flow from 2020 and has suggested that the more decade-old National Development Strategy (NDS) be used a skeleton, the top British envoy here said Thursday. British High ...

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Elderly murder accused allegedly stabs prison officer; prohibited items found at Camp Street jail

Last Updated on Wednesday, 16 August 2017, 20:40 by Denis Chabrol Authorities at the Guyana Prison Service were Wednesday night probing the stabbing of a prison officer allegedly by a 73-year old man accused of murder. Prison authorities were also trying to find out who is behind the smuggling of phones, SIM cards and drugs into the brick prison of ...

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