Last Updated on Sunday, 18 July 2021, 8:48 by Denis Chabrol A 23-year old man was Saturday night gunned down and his friend injured on Sunflower Street, Wismar. Linden. The dead man has been identified as Delron McKenzie of Roxanne Burnham Gardens Georgetown. Injured is Calvin Daly. He received two gunshot wounds on the left and right lower arm with ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 18 July 2021, 6:01 by Denis Chabrol The three suspects in the robbery of a 57-yeat old  businesswoman and her grandson at their grocery at Rockstone Junction were hours later arrested and several of the stolen items were recovered, the Guyana Police Force said. They are a 29-year-old man of Georgetown and two 25-year-old men of ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 17 July 2021, 17:53 by Denis Chabrol A lone elected member of the Central Executive Committee of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) and three regional representatives on Saturday dissociated themselves from a statement that castigated their party leader David Granger and General Secretary Amna Ally for not abiding by decisions of their decision-making body. Those ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 17 July 2021, 11:46 by Denis Chabrol A seven-member Law Reform Commission has been appointed to advise on revamping Guyana’s laws as it sees fit under a US$8 million project being funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Attorney General Anil Nandlall announced on Saturday. The Chairman is Retired Justice of Appeal B. S. Roy and ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 17 July 2021, 11:19 by Denis Chabrol Police say they are searching for three men who allegedly robbed a businesswoman at her shop at Rockstone Junction in Region 10 of more than GYD$400,000 worth of jewellery, cellular phones and other items. The robbery occurred at about 10 O’clock last night by the men who were riding ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 17 July 2021, 7:59 by Denis Chabrol The Inter Religious Organisation of Guyana (IROG) on Saturday endorsed the decriminalisation of the possession of small amounts of marijuana for religious use by Rastafari, and at the same time urged authorities to ensure there is no widescale abuse of the plant. “While the IROG is not calling for ...

Last Updated on Friday, 16 July 2021, 22:02 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) plans to invest US$292 million in building a modern transmission and distribution system, and the company is banking on behavioural change to stop losing GYD$4 billion (US$18.6 billion) annually to electricity theft, Chief Executive Officer Bharat Dindyal said Friday. “We have developed a ...

Last Updated on Friday, 16 July 2021, 8:56 by Denis Chabrol The Public Utilities Commission (PUC) will Friday morning focus on the state of Guyana’s electricity and energy sector  in its second webinar. The webinar begins at 9:30 AM and will be carried live on News-Talk Radio Guyana 103.1 FM and Demerara Waves Facebook page on www. facebook.com/demwaves . The ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 15 July 2021, 19:42 by Denis Chabrol The propeller for a single-engine Cessna plane on Thursday disintegrated  on takeoff at the Kamarang Airstrip, sources said. The sources said no one was injured. The aircraft, bearing registration marking 8R-DAC,  is owned by Orlando Charles’ Domestic Airways. It was being piloted by a Nicaraguan man whose only name ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 15 July 2021, 11:16 by Denis Chabrol People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Leader, David Granger on Thursday appeared to have dug his heels in, despite dissent among several of his party’s Central Executive Committee (CEC) members over his alleged failure to properly consult that body about the entry of two unknown parties into A Partnership for ...