Last Updated on Monday, 14 August 2017, 14:32 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Police Force on Monday said a foreign aircraft has been discovered on an illegal aircraft in North Rupununi. The foreign aircraft’s discovery followed the location of an illegal airstrip by Guyana Defence Force soldiers in the same area. Following is the full text of the Guyana Police ...

Last Updated on Monday, 14 August 2017, 12:42 by Denis Chabrol Three major utility companies have for the year so far racked up almost 400 customer complaints and has had to refund a total of GYD$30 million to customers, according to the Public Utilities Commission (PUC). PUC Complaints Manager, Destra Bourne said Guyana Telephone and Telegraph has has had to ...

Last Updated on Monday, 14 August 2017, 10:41 by Denis Chabrol The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) has begun legal action against owners of large swathes of land that have done nothing with those properties, Chief Executive Officer of the authority, Lelon Saul said Monday. “The terms and conditions of the agreement of sale- the company that was involved ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 12 August 2017, 9:44 by Denis Chabrol Family members as well as the Berbice populace were shocked when news of the Canje murder/ suicide spread throughout the town of New Amsterdam. No one expected that on a quiet Friday morning, businessman and owner of the Stretch D’ Dollar chain store,  46-year-old Rudy Blair would take his ...

Last Updated on Friday, 11 August 2017, 21:14 by Denis Chabrol Five men men were this week arraigned for allegedly raping two children under 16 years old and they were granted bail totalling GYD$800,000. Police said Romario Smartt, Ryan Boodhoo, Dale Edwards and Cadacy De Gees committed between January 1 and January 31, 2017 at 9th Avenue, Bartica. Police said the ...

Last Updated on Friday, 11 August 2017, 20:48 by Denis Chabrol The newly-established town of Lethem in southern Guyana has no gasoline because fuel tankers cannot pass the deplorable road which has been deteriorating for several weeks now, prompting concerns by Regional Chairman Bryan Allicock. “We have a shortage of fuel; just gasoline. We have diesel,” he told Demerara Waves ...

Last Updated on Friday, 11 August 2017, 16:15 by Denis Chabrol Acting Police Commissioner, David Ramnarine on Friday denied that he misled President David Granger about the status of a probe into an alleged assassination plot, and said he had been told that of only one statement just before briefing the Guyanese leader. “I did not mislead the President,” Ramnarine told ...

Last Updated on Friday, 11 August 2017, 9:22 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Police Force is Friday morning probing what now appears to be a murder-suicide involving a popular Berbice businessman and his wife. Berbice Divisional Commander, Assistant Commissioner Paul Williams confirmed that Rhonda Jackman-Blair and her estranged husband, Rudolph Blair died. Responding to a missing person report by her ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 10 August 2017, 19:47 by Denis Chabrol Guyana has asked the Guyana REDD‐plus Investment Fund (GRIF) for US$17 million to fund a project to increase internet connectivity in hinterland communities, Minister of Public Telecommunications, Cathy Hughes has said. She is quoted by government’s Department of Public Information (DPI) as saying that the project-ICT Access and eServices for ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 10 August 2017, 19:29 by Denis Chabrol Three staff members of the Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development have been awarded scholarships to study in Fiji, the centre announced Thursday to coincide with an informal visit by Secretary General of the African Caribbean Pacific Group of States (ACP), Dr. Patrick Gomes. “Dr Gomes ...