Last Updated on Thursday, 30 May 2019, 20:13 by Writer The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has pushed back its house-to-house registration exercise that was scheduled to begin this week, officials said Thursday. A senior official of the electoral management authority told Demerara Waves Online News that the delay was due to the procurement of materials not being finalised. Another source ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 30 May 2019, 15:25 by Writer Senior Counsel Rajendra Nath Poonai has sued the privately-owned Kaieteur News newspaper for GYD$45 million for defaming him in an article that he was convicted of fraud in Canada. Already, the High Court has granted an injunction restraining the National Media and Publishing Company, which publishes the Kaieteur News, its ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 30 May 2019, 5:01 by Writer The incumbent David Granger-led administration appeared increasingly poised to target, again, youths in its bid to be reelected at general elections likely to be held later this year. The campaign by the governing A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) coalition to target youths, Guyana’s single largest voting block, ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 May 2019, 12:31 by Writer One of two Stabroek Market area robbers was early Wednesday morning arrested with a gun in his possession shortly after robbing three vendors of cash and other items outside the downtown business district, the Guyana Police Force said. The law enforcement agency said the man was nabbed by police patrolling ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 May 2019, 11:50 by Writer Ghana’s President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is expected to visit Guyana next month and he and his Guyanese counterpart, David Granger, are due to discuss energy cooperation, among several other areas. Granger announced, in a speech at the accreditation of Ghana’s non-resident High Commissioner, Professor Abena Pokua Adompim Busia, that ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 May 2019, 22:22 by Writer The Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) on Tuesday said an almost-three-hour-blackout in Demerara and Berbice was initially triggered by an “abrupt” loss of a total of 16.5 megawatts (MWs) of generation capacity at the Kingston and Vreed-en-Hoop power plants. “Remedial system restoration commenced within minutes of the shutdown which ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 May 2019, 16:58 by Writer Guyana’s capital, Georgetown, is poised to learn a few strategies from northern Europe, under the auspices of an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)-sponsored seminar, “Urban Workshop: Learning from the Nordic Experience” taking place this week in Copenhagen, Denmark and Malmö, Sweden, City Hall said Tuesday. Deputy Mayor, Alfred Mentore, along with ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 May 2019, 10:47 by Writer The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph’s (GTT) landline service was restored after a more-than-one-hour outage that also affected mobile Internet data system, officials said. The reason for the early Tuesday morning outage was not immediately clear, but technicians and engineers were continuing their probe. The company was expected to provide an ...

Last Updated on Monday, 27 May 2019, 19:49 by Writer Retired Chancellor of the Judiciary, Justice Cecil Kennard is demanding an additional GYD$1.2 million for the extended Commission of Inquiry into the affairs of the Georgetown City administration, but he will have to wait until later this year, Deputy Chairman of the Local Government Commission (LGC), Andrew Garnett said Monday. ...

Last Updated on Monday, 27 May 2019, 18:05 by Writer The Guyana Gold Board (GGB) on Monday confirmed that a gold dealer’s licence was issued to Adolphus Mining Inc. after checks and verification were done on one of the company’s principals in whose possession a large quantity of raw gold had been found. The Board also confirmed that television reporter, ...