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As police and prison service personnel try to grapple with an ongoing crisis inside the Georgetown Prison, the United States notes the overcrowded state of that maximum security jail. In its 2015 Human Rights Report, the United States State Department states that a total of 963 prisoners were in Georgetown’s Camp Street Prison, designed to hold 550 inmates. “Overcrowding was in ...

The United States’ 2015 Human Rights Report has cited Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo’s directive to the state-owned Guyana Chronicle newspaper that all headlines must first get his office’s green-light. ‘In August the prime minister issued a directive that all headlines in the state-owned print media be first scrutinized and approved by his office before they are published. The directive was ...

At least nine persons were Monday night searching for a place to rest after fire destroyed  two houses they were living in, according to eyewitnesses. The blaze occurred at Lot 3Edun Street, Tucville, Georgetown at a house where the children of the late Donna Mc Kinnon lived.  Her lifeless body had been found on a vacant lot at Robb and ...

President David Granger was among the first to have samples taken for the conduct of an Ancestry Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid (DNA) test in Guyana. The test is being launched for the first time in this country by Eureka Medical Laboratory and Mr. Shawn Manbodh, Quality Manager and Medical Technologist visited State House to take the President’s sample as part of ...

As the May/June rainy season fast approaches a mild shower in the wee hours of Monday morning saw several parts of the city being subjected to flooding at variant levels. Areas such as North and South Ruimveldt, sections of Regent Street, Water Street and other parts of central Georgetown. While the water level below what is usually expected from similar ...

The Guyana Water Incorporated is not too pleased with a press statement issued by the People’s Progressive Party at the weekend and is refuting its contents in its entirety saying that it was irresponsible and malicious. The statement issued by the Party had alleged that Heads of Government agencies were demanding that contractors donate monies towards projects being undertaken by ...

Two prominent rice farmers in Region Three were Sunday night burnt to death in their house during an attack by bandits. Dead are Munair and Jamila (only names known) , said to be elderly persons. One of the theories is that after the elderly couple realised that bandits had invaded their home at Good Hope, East Bank Essequibo, they locked ...

A house at Enmore, East Coast Demerara was burnt and the remains of a 70-year old woman were retrieved from the debris. Police said the woman’s name is Banmattie Persaud. She lived alone. Investigators were told that at about 2:30 PM, Sunday April 17, 2016, a fire of so far unknown origin completely destroyed the two-storeyed house that was located ...

Two persons were killed and two others injured in an early Sunday morning collision on the Coverden Public Road, East Bank Demerara. Dead are 23-year old Rudolph Bess and 16-year old Hansranie Persaud. Bess worked at ReadyMix Cement Limited, Eccles, East Bank Demerara.  They succumbed on the spot, according to persons who were on the scene. Injured are Yolanda Fisher-Patterson ...

Despite concerns that the incoming Chief Executive Officer of the state-owned National Communications Network (NCN), Lennox Cornette had forged the signature of a top official of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT), the majority of directors have supported his appointment after  background checks were conducted. “I see no legal impediment to the appointment of Mr. Cornette. I support the said ...