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After several weeks of intense grilling, the man police believed shot dead political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing was Friday afternoon charged with murder. He is 37-year old Regan ‘Grey Boy’ Rodrigues of Riverview, Ruimveldt. He is acuused of the murder of Crum-Ewing on March 10,2015 at Diamond , East Bank Demerara. Rodrigues was not required to plea to the indictable charge ...

by Zena Henry The Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) on Friday welcomed government’s announcement that it would be fulfilling its 100 day promise to small miners by waiving duties on fuel, tools and small scale mining equipment. “We are very pleased. We have been asking for these things for a long while but we haven’t seen the list ...

by Zena Henry The Ministry of Finance has put in place new measures to tighten possible squandering and dishonesty in relation to government officials travel allowances and advances effective June 16, 2015. This revelation comes as government defended itself against a newspaper article claiming that the new government was setting to pay themselves big time when going on state business ...

by Zena Henry Guyana’s immigration authority was finally able to have eight Indian nationals, who were denied entry into the country, depart early Friday morning. The men, it was reported were unable to provide adequate information on their place of accommodation and purpose for entering into the country and were thus disallowed. The Cheddi Jagan International Airport has said that ...

Finance Minister Winston Jordan on Friday said government plans to withdraw an estimated GUY$30 billion in deposits being held by semi-autonomous state entities in commercial banks, saying that it would help to narrow the deficit. Jordan, who is a former Budget Director at the Finance Ministry, said he told executives of the Guyana Association of Bankers that the monies to ...

The police are conducting investigations into a robbery/murder that occurred at the Jade Stone Chinese Restaurant, Mandela Avenue, Georgetown. At about 0030h. today Friday August 07, 2015, Fei Su, 32 years, was confronted in her home above the restaurant by a group of men who assaulted her and took away an undisclosed sum of money. On checking later, she found ...

The Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), member of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group, says it has recently approved a grant of US $551,386 for a project with Mobile Money Guyana(MMG), that will create access to formal money transfer and payments for at least 10,000 domestic remittance-sending clients that live in remote, underserved areas in Guyana’s  regions 4, 6, 9, and 10 ...

by Zena Henry With the significant oil find offshore Guyana, many persons have questioned the contract between Guyana and United States-based oil giant Exxon Mobil, hoping that the country will get what it deserves. However, at this point the government seems quite satisfied with the current agreement between the two entities. Minister of State Raphael Trotman told Demerara Waves Wednesday ...

Major unrest ‎ in Linden was Thursday averted after the Chinese-owned bauxite company, BOSAI Minerals, agreed to reduce the number of hours rather than retrench 37 workers, according to Company Secretary Retired Major General Norman Mc Lean.  Mc Lean said National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE) and the management of BOSAI have reached agreement for the workers to stay ...

by Zena Henry Bauxite workers attached to the Chinese-owned bauxite company,  Bosai Minerals, are demanding an explanation from the company about why it pland to fire almost 50 staffers. Scores of workers, mainly from the company’s mining pits, armed themselves with placards this morning protesting the stated retrenchment. According to the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union’s Leslie Gonsalves, workers ...