Last Updated on Sunday, 11 December 2022, 17:52 by Denis Chabrol Police are investigating the brutal beating of a Christ Church Secondary School student by his schoolmates, even as he remained hospitalised recovering from severe head and facial injuries, police said. Head of the Guyana Police Force’s Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Deputy Commissioner Wendell Blanhum told Demerara Waves Online News ...

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Last Updated on Saturday, 10 December 2022, 9:23 by Denis Chabrol High Court Judge, Navendra Singh on Friday ruled that defamation cases by former Deputy Chief Elections Officer of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) against Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo and others should go ahead rather than await the outcome of criminal cases against her in the Magistrates Court. The defendants ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 10 December 2022, 7:51 by Denis Chabrol Agents of the Guyana Police Force’s Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) are allegedly avoiding service of  private criminal charges instituted by a lawyer who was prevented from leaving the offices because she informed her client to remain silent, her lawyer Nigel Hughes said. With the Director of Public Prosecutions, ...

Last Updated on Friday, 9 December 2022, 18:32 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana government would soon be producing high-tech digital national identification cards with assistance from a Dubai company, G-42, in association with a German government counterpart, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said on Friday. The project is expected to begin in the coming months and, according t0 Mr Jagdeo, the ...

Last Updated on Friday, 9 December 2022, 16:28 by Denis Chabrol Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Retired Justice Claudette Singh on Friday ruled out the use of electronic fingerprinting at polling stations, saying it risked disenfranchising electors and would amount to a violation of the country’s Constitution. “With specific reference to the call for the introduction of a ...

Last Updated on Friday, 9 December 2022, 15:59 by Denis Chabrol Guyana on Friday announced that after negotiations with the American-owned CH4/ LINDSAYCA, that company has been confirmed to build the natural gas-fired electricity plant and natural gas liquids plant at a reduced cost of US$759 million. The first payment would come from GY$20 billion in the 2022 National Budget ...

Last Updated on Friday, 9 December 2022, 11:32 by Denis Chabrol Opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) Chief Scrutineer , Carol Smith-Joseph was read 14 fraud charges connected to when she had served as a Director of the Mahaica Abary Rice Development Scheme (MARDS) back in 2016, Attorney-at-Law Roysdale Forde said. “There is no clear explanation from ...

Last Updated on Friday, 9 December 2022, 7:56 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali announced the launch of Guyana’s competitive bid round for 14 offshore oil blocks fr0m Friday, December 9. He said the process is expected to close with the submission of bids on April 14, 2023. and contracts awarded by May 31, 2023. “This, of course, will follow ...