Last Updated on Wednesday, 2 December 2020, 16:18 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has recovered a key image of a shipping container suspected to have contained 11.5 tons of cocaine that had been busted in Belgium in early November, multiple sources have confirmed. Officials said the process was painstaking and delicate in order not to damage the ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 2 December 2020, 15:21 by Denis Chabrol Licensed arms and ammunition, Larry Singh, has been sued by the Guyana government for failing to supply more than GYD$369 million in firearms and ammunition to the Guyana Defence Force between 2014 and 2016, according to court papers filed by Attorney General Anil Nandlall. The National Procurement and Tender ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 2 December 2020, 7:37 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT) has added a new automated assistant to allow postpaid customers to easily check their outstanding balances and reduce the number of enquiries to the Call Centre “About 20 per cent of our customers would call agents to find out their balance. With this ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 2 December 2020, 6:52 by Denis Chabrol Two Venezuelans and a Guyanese have been charged with the murder of a Guyanese shopkeeper who last weeks sought to defend his wife from bandits at their shop at Port Kaituma. Police say the Director of Public Prosecutions has advised that Guyanese gold miner 22-year old Nadeem Baksh of ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 1 December 2020, 16:55 by Denis Chabrol A man, who was sentenced to 66 years imprisonment for murdering a woman during a fight over a rooster has received a sentence reduction by the  Guyana Court of Appeal. Mark Assing called ‘Jessie’, now 48 years old, was convicted in 2014 for the June 2012 murder of Mc ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 1 December 2020, 17:39 by Denis Chabrol Sleepin Hotel’s Carnival Casino has received its licence on Monday  after submitting a fresh application to the Gaming Authority, ending a six-year long wait and the initial employment of 150 persons, hotelier Clifton Bacchus said Tuesday. He explained that while the application was submitted recently, he had been engaging ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 1 December 2020, 12:58 by Denis Chabrol The opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) wants the High Court to hear the two election petitions, although Mr. David Granger signed the wrong date on a court document to facilitate the fixing a date to hear arguments. Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire says she will hand ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 1 December 2020, 8:06 by Denis Chabrol A  52-year old man allegedly committed suicide after he chopped a woman because she refused his desire to have a relationship with her 14-year old daughter. Police say after she refused, boat captain Jerry Narine, entered the yard of Michelle Russell with two cutlasses and a knife. Investigators say ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 1 December 2020, 8:02 by Denis Chabrol Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony, on the occasion of World AIDS Day being observed on Tuesday, announced that Guyana is among several Caribbean countries that have inched closer to most people living with HIV knowing their status. “I am happy to announce Guyana was identified among countries in the ...