Last Updated on Monday, 12 June 2023, 19:45 by Denis Chabrol A former Branch Manger of North American Fire Insurance Company (NAFICO) has been charged with 16 counts of Ponzi scheme related fraud fraud and converting GY$5.8 million belonging to the New Light Assembly of God Church’s to her own use, the Guyana Police Force’s Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) ...

Last Updated on Monday, 12 June 2023, 19:26 by Denis Chabrol The Private Sector Commission (PSC), which observed Monday’s Local Government Elections (LGE), said polling was free and fair, even as the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) said results could start coming in from about 10 O’clock Monday night. “Although voter turnout has been low, the PSC Observers, along with the ...

Last Updated on Monday, 12 June 2023, 12:44 by Denis Chabrol Two men are wanted in connection with the shooting death of Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Coast Guardsman, Lieutenant Rondel Douglas who was at the time driving his privately-owned car as a taxi. Those wanted are 25-year old Jamie Ghanie of 59 Pattensen-Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown and 25-year old Harold known ...

Last Updated on Monday, 12 June 2023, 12:00 by Denis Chabrol General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo on Monday denied telling business owners not to provide financial support to the opposition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and buying out opposition supporters. “The PPP is not telling people not to make contributions to APNU,” he told ...

Last Updated on Monday, 12 June 2023, 11:20 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) is Monday mourning the loss of soldier , who tragically lost his life in a shooting incident. The GDF has expressed heartfelt condolences to the family of Private Tevon Daymon. The defence force said the incident took place at approximately 4:51 hours at Base ...

Last Updated on Monday, 12 June 2023, 7:42 by Denis Chabrol Polls opened in Guyana’s Local Government Elections (LGE) on Monday, with Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton saying his People’s National Congress Reform-led A Partnership for  National Unity (APNU) did not contest in all Local Authority Areas but opted to dedicate its limited resources in its strongholds. “In terms of strategy, ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 10 June 2023, 21:14 by Denis Chabrol A taxi driver has been arrested after leaving a three-year old child in his locked car, police said. Investigators said the driver returned 30 minutes later from his home and rushed the tearful child to the Mahaicony Cottage Hospital where doctors said the child was dehydrated and needed oxygen. ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 10 June 2023, 21:01 by Denis Chabrol The central  government incumbent People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC), in an all-out push to snatch decades-long control of the Georgetown City Council from the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), is banking on its kept promises to win votes from Afro-Guyanese communities. In a ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 10 June 2023, 20:40 by Writer The opposition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) on Saturday encouraged Guyanese to vote solidly against the People’s Progressive Party in Monday’s Local Government Elections (LGE) to signal their disgust with a range of national issues. “Let us use our votes to send a message to the PPP (People’s Progressive ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 8 June 2023, 11:52 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Court of Appeal on Thursday ordered a stay of a High Court suspension order of the Liza 1 operations if ExxonMobil does not provide an unlimited financial guarantee for any clean-up that may be caused by an oil spill. Noting that there was a reasonable prospect for ...