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Hundreds of sugar workers across Guyana's sugar belt on Thursday down tools to show support for workers affected by the impending close of the Wales sugar factory. According to a release from the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), the solidarity strike proceeded during the day with picketing exercises  at the various Estates Administrative offices with placards reading “No ...

Team Legacy contesting Local Government Elections in six constituencies says it is not imtimidated by the presence of larger players but insists that LGE should not include the major political parties. At an official campaign launch on Thursday members of the team were confident that they would fare well in their respective areas. Michael Leonard a Team Member contesting in ...

A Police Constable attached to rhe Whim Police station died early Thursday morning after his jump from a moving vehicle did not go as planned. According to a police statement. Constable Ray Simon was hitching a ride on a vehicle on his way to the Police station. However, after the vehicle failed to stop at the station to let him ...

A 31 year old woman,  believed to be mentally ill, was Thursday removed from a muck-laden room where she was locked away and made to eat and sleep among her waste. Her removal stemmed from Monica Edwards raising concerns about the woman's welfare directly with Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo during a public day with residents ar Perth Park, Essequibo Coast. ...

A 33-year-old Annandale resident is now dead after he was stabbed several times following an argument with another man. According to a police statement, Ramkarran Mohanlall, of Annandale South was killed at approximately 23:00hrs on Wednesday.   Police investigations have revealed that Ramkarran Mohanlall was involved in an argument with another man during which he was stabbed about his body. ...

Amid a scorching drought, combined with salt water intrusion, that is biting rice and 'cash crop' farmers on the Essequibo Coast, a top government official says drainage and irrigation workers there maybe engaging in political sabotage. The Prime Minister's Special Representative in Region Two, Karan Chand told reporters that he believes that a number of the rangers might be sabotaging ...

Two security guards at the construction site of Movie Town at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara were shot and injured early Thursday morning, police said.  ‎ Investigations so far revealed that at about 4 AM, two men turned up at the guard hut on the northern side and one of them discharged several rounds from a handgun.  The guards, who are ...

Reproduced from New York Daily News Jermain Simon died Tuesday after an arsonist set fire to a two-family home on E. 26th St. near Clarendon Road in East Flatbush in December. A Brooklyn father injured in an arson attack has died after lingering in a coma for nearly two months, his family told the Daily News Wednesday. Jermain Simon, 38, ...

The Guyana Revenue Authority Wednesday said it seized almost GYD$20 million worth of smuggled goods and detained a number of vehicles that were used to transport the items  in January. The seizure of the un-customed goods by the GRA’s Law Enforcement and Investigation Division (LEID) has been is part of what the agency calls its “relentless”  pursuit of smugglers “The countrywide ...

Rationing of water being supplied to residents of Georgetown from the Shelter Belt Water Treatment Facility begins Wednesday night (3rd February, 2016) from 10 O’clock due to the current drought. The Guyana Water Inc. explains that this is as a result of another decrease in the level of the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) due to the prolonged dry season. ...