The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) on Monday frowned on the Alliance For Change’s (AFC) Nagamootoo-Hughes ticket for general and regional elections, promising to uncover a bag of skeletons about that opposition party’s presidential candidate. AFC Leader, Khemraj Ramjattan has told Demerara Waves Online News that Moses Nagamootoo and Nigel Hughes were his presidential and prime ministerial candidates that would have ...

The two unions representing employees of the state-owned Guyana Power and Light (GPL) on Monday threatened to complain to the Labour Ministry about management’s refusal to negotiate jointly with them. The National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE) and the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) accused the power company’s management of leveraging its position during separate talks. “We ...

Two weeks after a waitress was gunned down at a city restaurant, police on Saturday released images of the shooter, hoping that the public could help identify and locate the killer. The Guyana Police Force asked anyone with “information that may lead to his identification and possible location is asked to contact the police” on telephone numbers 225-6411, 225-2227, 227-1149, ...

Head of Intelligence at the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), Lt.Col. Sydney James- the man who revealed that several army guns given to People’s National Congress (PNC) functionaries three decades ago have not been returned- is to head a unit aimed at fighting money laundering. Police Commissioner, Seelall Persaud confirmed that James has been appointed Assistant Commissioner of Police to head ...

Reproduced from Business News Americas (http://www.bnamericas.com ) The PetroCaribe energy accord of 2005 stands at a point of significant uncertainty, according to a report from Scotiabank, posing substantial risks to Central American and Caribbean member states. While the collapse of the agreement is not a certainty, the fiscal dependence on Venezuela created by the agreement, which provides subsidized Venezuelan gasoline, is ...

The Guyana Foundation has announced the findings of a research study into the underlying economic and social factors driving the high prevalence of suicide and suicidal behavior in Guyana. This qualitative study was conducted by Ms. Serena Coultress, a researcher in the Global Health program at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, who was hosted by the Guyana Foundation earlier this ...

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) appears to be on an aggressive campaign to ensure its supporters are registered and turn out to vote in widely expected early general and regional elections. Addressing a public meeting at the Stabroek Market Square, APNU parliamentarian Christopher Jones suggested that his political leader, David Granger could have won the presidency in 2011 if ...

Three men, arraigned on Friday for allegedly robbing  a man of several items totaling GUY$5.4 million, were each granted GUY$100,000 bail. Appearing before City Magistrate, Judy Latchman, the men were not required to plea to the charge of robbery with aggravation. Police alleged that Adrian Bishop,28, a mechanic of 66 Garnett Street, Newtown-Kitty; Devon Forde,27, a goldsmith of 54 Duncan ...

Guyanese and American Special Forces have just wrapped up a month-long rigorous training exercise at two bases of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), the US embassy here said in a statement. A graduation ceremony was held on Friday, August 29 at the end of the Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET) for the GDF’s 3-1 Special Forces Squadron and members of ...

The opposition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) on Friday accused the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) of trumping up concerns about the integrity of the preliminary voters list to find excuses for its imminent defeat at general and regional elections expected later this year or by next January. The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has already discarded the PPP’s claims that ...