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The Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into the Camp Street Prison riot, James Patterson and the Joint Services Attorney Selwyn Pieters were engaged in a heated exchange on Tuesday morning as the Commission met for a sitting. Patterson raised some concerns about the manner in which video evidence was released to the public and that evidence was not available ...

  President David Granger, along with several other senior members of Government and other political zealots paid their final respects to the late William Haslyn Parris, the former Deputy Prime Minister of Guyana, at a  funeral service held at the St. Anthony’s of Padua Parish in Buxton. The other dignitaries included Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, Minister of Education, Rupert ...

Prominent businessman, Brian “BK” Tiwari appears to have separated his now rescinded appointment from the rest of the government, saying that he was merely an advisor only to Minister of State, Joseph Harmon and not the coalition-led administration. By the Head of BK International’s account, it calls into question what was Tiwari’s appointment that President David Granger said he revoked. ...

Another inmate testifying at the Commission of Inquiry into the Camp Street Riot in early March has claimed that Deputy Director of Prisons Gladwin Samuels told prison wardens to lock the door to the dormitory and let the prisoners’ burn. 17 inmates that in a fire that ensued after a riot in the prison on March 3, 2015 while several ...

Police on Monday issued a wanted bulletin for a man in connection with the stabbing death of a man under conflicting circumstances. Investigators say they want Hemraj  “Rickey Scrawley” Bramdeo for questioning in relation to the murder of r of Dellon “Chicken” Bradford which occurred on March 23, 2016 at Skull City, Patentia, West Bank Demerara. Assuring that “all information ...

In what is described as a partnership to decrease risk, local oil exploration company Mid Atlantic Oil and Gas Inc. has teamed up with oil giant ExxonMobil in an agreement that will see the company exploring for oil on behalf of Mid Atlantic. The local company has petroleum concessions in the offshore Guyana Basin in the general location of Exxon’s ...

A Brazilian and a Barbadian company are among  five entities that are in the race to rehabilitate and operate the Moco-Moco Hydropower Plant in Lethem, the Ministry of Public Infrastructure said Monday. Under a Build, Own, Operate, Transfer (BOOT) structure, power will be supplied to the Lethem Power Company grid under a negotiated and agreed Power Purchase Agreement, government said. ...

Nineteen Community Development Councils (CDCs) in Mahaica-Berbice and East Berbice-Corentyne on Sunday (April 3, 2016), received letters of approval for small grants under the Government of Guyana’s community development project, which is being implemented through the Ministry of Communities. First Lady Mrs. Sandra Granger was on hand to present the letters of approval to the successful groups. “This is part ...

President David Granger on Sunday congratulated the West Indies male and female teams on their emphatic victories earlier in the day in the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) World Twenty20 and Women’s World Twenty20 championships. The President said that these victories provide us with an opportunity to celebrate and be proud of our collective achievement as a region. The teams’ thrilling victories ...

Prime Minister of Grenada and Chairman of the CARICOM Subcommittee on Cricket Governance, Dr. the Right Hon. Keith Mitchell, has congratulated the West Indies Men’s and Women’s teams on their heartwarming victories in the World T20 competitions earlier today. The Men’s team defeated England in the Finals by four wickets, with two balls remaining; scoring four consecutive sixes in the ...