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Surviving children of police, who have been killed in the line of duty, are to benefit from a fund that would be established shortly, Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud announced Saturday. Addressing the Passing Out Parade of Recruits, he said a businessman would be spearheading the drive to raise money for the fund which would be supervised by a faith-based committee. ...

In government’s latest explanation, President David Granger has sought to justify the hefty hike in ministerial salaries mere four months after taking office on grounds that he needed to pay more to retain quality professsionals to manage Guyana properly. The Ministry of the Presidency quoted Granger as saying that that in order to attract the best qualified people to serve ...

It’s official! Venezuela has turned to Suriname for its some of its rice supply in exchange for selling oil under the PetroCaribe agreement. Venezuela’s President, Nicolas Maduro and his Surinamese counterpart, Desi Bouterse on Friday reached agreement on the deal in principle. It would be finalized very soon by a Surinamese team. “In the coming weeks a Surinamese commission will ...

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) is being geared up to help combat security threats other than its primary focus of protecting the country from its neighbours that continue to lay territorial claims. Addressing senior GDF officers earlier this week, President David Granger said changes in the international and local environments made some of Guyana’s old approaches to public order and ...

Reproduced from Caribbean Lifeby Bert Wilkinson Until miners from the coast land discovered relatively large amounts of gold in the last three years, life at a northwestern native Amerindian jungle community in Guyana was simple and traditional. Most of the 800 residents in the Carib Community of Baramita District near Venezuela had eked out a living from harvesting timber, subsistence ...

With the expiration of an amnesty for persons in breach of immigration rules on Friday, the St. Kitts and Nevis authorities are about to clamp down on Guyanese and other persons overstaying in that twin-island federation. There is a large community of Guyanese residing there, many putting down roots since they had been hired to work as cane harvesters in ...

Four Guyanese men  on Friday remained in a Grenada jail pending trial for alleged cocaine trafficking after they and two young women were arrested and four kilogrammes of cocaine seized from a house known as “the factory.” The Grenada Informer newspaper names those remanded to prison until October 27 as Colin Hooper 34, Osafi Bobb 21, Mahendranauth Daff 34 and ...

At least 60 persons travelling aboard InselAir have been refused entry to Guyana during the last six months, pointing to the urgent need for clear immigration rules. Chief Executive Officer of Roraima Airways, Gerry Gouveia said there was urgent need for “very clear guidelines.” Company officials said the figure rose to 60 Wednesday night (October 14, 2015) when six passengers were ...

Two taxi drivers have been injured and their cars hijacked. They are 34 year old Rolwyn Crum-Ewing abd 53 year old Colin Ageday. Sources said Crum-Ewing was stabbed after he picked up several persons at Stabroek Market Square at about 4 am Thursday. He was attacked while in the vicinity of Sheriff Street and relieved of his car. That vehicle ...

President David Granger has announced plans to increase the number of regular soldiers, reintroduce the Guyana People’s Militia and beef up the air and marine wings of the Guyana Defence Force as part of a five-year “total defence” strategy. Addressing GDF Officers at the army’s headquarters at Camp Ayanganna, he said the GDF’s five pillars must include recruiting more soldiers ...