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President David Granger on Tuesday said Venezuela was building up troops near the border with Guyana. “We have recently received reports that Venezuela has been making extraordinary military deployments in eastern Venezuela, that is western Guyana,  which seem to be impacting on Guyana’s territorial defence,” he told reporters. He said he and top security chiefs were meeting Tuesday to craft ...

Former West Indies and Guyana star batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul gave immigration officers a non-existent address on arrival in his native country, police said in a statement. “The Guyana Police Force states that in relation to the incident referred to Mr. Shivnarine Chanderpaul had stated an intended address that does not exist in Guyana on his embarkation card which was submitted ...

Police on Monday said they were probing the circumstances surrounding the death of two Brazilians whose decomposed bodies were found in a swamp in the Cuyuni River area. At about 1430h. yesterday Sunday September 20, 2015, the decomposed bodies of Brazilian nationals Jose Carlos Barbosa Araujo, 45 years, and Adonias Ferreira, 37 years, were found in a swamp at Aramau ...

A retired pest controller at the Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco), who was allegedly caught with drugs, a gun and ammunition, was Monday refused bail and remanded to prison. Seekumar Rambarran of 805 Crabwood Creek, Corentyne, Berbice  was remanded to prison until October 5, 2015 when he would appear at the Springlands Magistrates Court. Police said he could soon be charged ...

In the wake of two separate alleged home invasions and killings, a psychologist wants Guyanese police to examine their records to see if there has been a pattern of such incidents which might be due to sociopathic behaviour. “Sociopathic behaviour is when people behave as if they have no moral conscience so that a person can look at somebody and ...

The South Central People’s Development Association of Rupununi, has become one of 20 organisations to capture the United Nations Development Fund’s  Equator Prize for the year 2015, according to the Ministry of the Presidency. This is the first time Guyana has managed to capture that prize. The South Central People’s Development Association is a local non-governmental organisation that aims to ...

by Tamara Rodney Raj (not his real name) smokes one and a half packs of cigarettes each day. At 37, this goldsmith  is among the large number of smokers in Guyana who started this habit in their early teens. “I start to smoke when I was about 14. Me father show me how to do it and I never stopped ...

Government plans to revive an agricultural and development bank, a financial institution the Private Sector Commission (PSC) welcomes but emphasises must be properly managed.  Prime Minister Moses Nagamoootoo at the weekend announced at the Berbice Expo that government has decided to re-establish the bank more than 10 years after it was wound up. “To provide seed capital to investors and ...

The Integrity Commission could soon be given stronger legal teeth to go after public officials who fail to declare their assets, government said at the weekend. “I can tell you that it is something that we are very concerned about…it will be law that by a certain time of the year, you declare your assets, and if you don’t, the ...

Minister of Finance Winston Jordan has reiterated that all monies owed to millers for rice shipped to Venezuela have already been paid by government. The minister, speaking exclusively to GINA, made it clear that the new administration was aware of the plight of some 7,000 farmers after it was discovered that the Petro Caribe Fund was left depleted by the ...