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 reporters shortly after casting his ballot in the Local Government Elections ...
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GDF solider shot dead at Camp Stephenson, prime suspect arrested
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 Camp Stephenson in Timehri. According to the defence force, the prime ...
Read More »APNU did not contest in all Local Authority areas because of limited resources; confident of Georgetown victory- Norton
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, our strategy was to take our resources and focus it in ...
Read More »Taxi driver detained for leaving child in locked car
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. The child was transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he ...
Read More »PPP targets votes in PNCR-APNU heartland with promises, evidence
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 frontal appeal to the mainly Afro-Guyanese attendees, he said the evidence ...
Read More »Local gov’t elections are also about national issues- APNU
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 Party) that life is hard in Guyana. Use our votes ...
Read More »BREAKING: Appeal Court stays suspension of ExxonMobil’s Liza 1 operations, orders US$2 billion clean-up deposit
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 success of an appeal, Justice of Appeal Rishi Persaud also ordered ...
Read More »New Christ Church school to include fire prevention system
The new Christ Church Secondary School, which is expected to be completed by next January, would include a fire prevention system, the Ministry of Education announced. The seven contracts includes one awarded toA. Ograsein & Sons General Contracting for the installation of fire prrevention units at a value of GY$6,759,000.00. The Special Projects Officer in the Ministry, Mr. Ron Eastman ...
Read More »OPINION: Exxon has Guyana on ropes, almost down and definitely out
By GHK Lall Everywhere that Guyanese turn, there is some level of thick darkness. No, it is not the circle of the clock, but of impenetrable manmade secrecies. Some are of foreign origins, some are local, and some from both sources contribute to the consequences that result from such industrial-political collaborations. I gaze at this figure for depreciation and amortization ...
Read More »Guards tied up, safe carted off from Eureka Medical Laboratories- police
Two security guards have alleged that they were attacked by gunmen, ordered to open Eureka Medical Laboratories door and escorted to the “boss'” office from where they stole a safe containing an undisclosed amount of cash, police said on Wednesday. Investigators said the perpetrators escaped in a white Toyota Itz motorcar, bearing licence number PPP 4592, which was parked on ...
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