Two children were burnt to death in their house at Belmont, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara after their mother left them at home unattended, officials said. They are Anamika Hardat,9, and 3-year old Shameena Hardat. Their mother has been identified as Bibi Shabicka. A usually reliable source said neighbours tried to enter the house but the padlocked premises prevented them from ...

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on Tuesday denied preventing police, soldiers and prison guards from voting ahead of the rest of the population in Local Government Elections. “Against this backdrop, for anyone to accuse GECOM of willfully disenfranchising members of the Disciplined Forces is malicious and intended to discredit a transparent and efficient process that was evidently successful,” GECOM said. ...

President Irfaan Ali  and the parliamentary opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) welcomed Guyana’s election to a non-permanent seat of the United Nations Security Council. Under the UN Charter, the Council is tasked with promoting international peace and security, a task the Guyanese leader promised that the South American nation would execute under the theme of ‘Partnering ...

Two men were Tuesday hospitalised under police guard in connection with the stabbing death of a 31-year old man from Independence Boulevard ‘Punt Trench Dam’, Georgetown, police said on Tuesday. The first suspect received injuries to his upper chest, left and right index finger and right arm, while the second suspect received injuries to his right knuckles.=,” the Guyana Police ...

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) said it would not win a majority of the Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs) in the June 12 Local Government Elections (LGE) because several constituency boundaries have been merged to its disadvantage. “We will not a get an overall victory in terms of the number of NDCs but we ...

The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) has said that it would be meeting with teachers over the next weeks to consider a number of proposals by the Ministry of Education including salaries, licensing of teachers and a housing revolving fund. “Given the areas mention, the Union will within the next two weeks engage you our members with a view to have ...

President Irfaan Ali on Saturday night indicated that his People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) was depending on the now GY$40,000 cash-grant per child to take away control of the Linden Town Council from the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) for the first time at the June 12 Local Government Elections. “If those parents whose children benefit from this policy of ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has dismissed Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton’s call for each Guyanese household to be provided US$5,000 every year from the oil revenues. By Mr Jagdeo’s estimates, that would cost US$1.7 billion. “Now, since we started producing oil, we have not received $1.7 billion as yet but he wants to give out $1.7 billion a year. That is ...

Digicel Guyana on Saturday announced Deonarine Gopaul as its new Chief Executive Officer, and his predecessor Gregory Dean would remain as an advisor.  Gopaul, brings extensive experience in the telecom industry, most recently serving as CEO of Digicel Suriname which he will continue to serve. Gopaul, who is Guyanese, made his initial entry into Telecoms with Celstar and the early ...

Guyana’s High Court on Friday ruled that the once well-known ‘C Island Hotel’ was legally sold for GY$50 million after a majority of fingerprint experts testified that the then owner’s signature on the sufficiently crafted agreement of sale was not forged, paving the way for the transport to be passed to the new owner. The court found that ‘C Island ...