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The usually quiet Essequibo island of Wakenaam was Saturday plunged into mourning with two suicides- one by a sick and elderly man and the other by a young man with domestic problems. Dead are 80-year old Sydney “Badri” Ramphal and Soma Bhryo, said to be in his 40s. They resided at Belle Plaine village on that agriculture-dependent island of about ...

President David Granger has announced the pardon of several women convicted for non-violent offences and that they are expected to be released from prison on Monday. Speaking on his weekly television programme, Public Interest, the Guyanese leader said he exercised his compassion in pardoning 11 women who were convicted and imprisoned for non-violent, narcotics and trafficking in persons. “My emphasis ...

A popular Guyanese minibus driver, Phillip “Stoutie” Amsterdam, has been shot dead in the United States  , according to well-placed sources. Prior to migrating to the United States (US) several years ago, he lived on Public Road Kitty and South Ruimveldt. Back in the 1990s, he had driven buses such as “Drayman” and “Deportee.” NJ.com reported that authorities are investigating ...

Efforts are being made to update and expand the operations of the Central Recruitment and Manpower Agency (CRMA), so that it can better serve the public. This will contribute to the Administration’s effortto minimise unemployment in Guyana, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported Friday. The unit intends to expand its services to Regions 1, 3, 7, 8, 9 and 10 ...

President David Granger Friday thanked the members of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) for their service to a grateful nation, on behalf of all Guyanese.  The President, was at the time, speaking at the GDF Headquarters, Base Camp Ayangana, where officers and ranks were gathered for their Christmas lunch. Referencing the role Venezuela played in the Rupununi Rebellion and the ...

Internationally renowned Caribbean security expert, Guyanese Professor, Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith is one of two recipients of the 9th annual William J. Perry Awards for Excellence in Security and Defense Education. The United States’ Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies (CHDS) also named dmiral Vidal Francisco Soberón Sanz, Secretary of the Navy of Mexico as the other awardee. At a ceremony in Lincoln Hall ...

The Guyana National Computer Incident Response Team (GNCIRT) wishes to alert the general public of the sudden surge in ransomware attacks being experienced globally.  Security researchers are reporting that ransomware attacks have increased nine-fold in a two-week period. Regionally, Paraguay has recently experienced a ransomware campaign against its citizens.  GNCIRT has had one recent report of  ransomware that infected several ...

President of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), Komal Chand says his union is willing to settle for a six-month retroactive increase in wages for sugar workers. Debating a motion by his People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) to scrap an increase in ministerial salaries, the union boss begged that the pay-hike be included in the 2016 National Budget ...

Finance Minister Winston Jordan says that the government will not be able to pay sugar workers a GYD$50,000 bonus as requested by the Guyana Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU). GAWU in a release Thursday had stated that the Finance Minister had been written requesting that the same bonus given to public servants be given to sugar workers. “Bearing in mind that ...

A Canada-based Guyanese man and a tattoo artist were Tuesday afternoon burnt to death when the car they were travelling in exploded during a collision at Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice. Dead are 48-year old Shiv Hanoman and 22-year old Nehru Bankay of Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice. Four other persons who were in the other car that was involved ...