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by Zena Henry The legal status of the Neighbourhood, Town and City Councils is being called into question, but the minister responsible for local government and the Mayor of Georgetown have shrugged off those concerns, instead saying that the focus is on holding the long-delayed Local Government Elections (LGE). Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan says that government is currently putting ...

Guyanese law enforcement agents, who have violated human rights, would be barred from pursuing certain American-funded training programmes, according to Charge D’Affaires of the United States (US) embassy Bryan Hunt. “The US law stipulates that anyone who is going to be receiving training under this programme has to go through human rights vetting to ensure that they did not commit ...

by Zena Henry The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) continues to take the government to task over the current crime situation and has declared that the Administration’s ‘dog and pony show” proposal will not work. Speaking as former Home Affairs Minister at the PPP’s press conference Monday July 13, Clement Rohee again ridiculed the government for not having a public security ...

Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge says Guyana is no longer interested in the United Nations (UN) Good Officer Process because Venezuela has been using it as a cover to leave the border controversy unresolved, but he declined to say whether his country would approve the appointment of a new mediator. “We have indicated very clearly to the Secretary General of the ...

Fire ripped through a Chinese hardware store at Camp and Robb Streets and shattered the glass of Republic Bank’s branch. The building also housed Manchester Chinese Restaurant and a small take-away snackette. The cause of the fire is unknown. The blaze began at about 2 AM in the wooden building that once housed A.H.& L Kissoon Furniture Store. Fire fighters ...

Police on Saturday announced a nine percent increase in serious crimes for the first six months of 2015 compared to the same period last year. At the end of June 2015 the Guyana Police Force recorded a 9% increase in serious crimes in comparison to the same period in 2014.   Among the serious crimes policed by the Force are ...

The decomposed body of an Amerindian woman and her eight-month old child were discovered in a house on the East Bank Demerara , police confirmed. The names of the deceased were not immediately available. The house in which the bodies were found is located at 408 Section ‘C’, Block Y, Golden Grove. The woman’s husband works in the interior. Well-placed ...

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on Saturday said Caribbean Community (Caricom) leaders appeared to have issued a watered down statement on  Venezuela’s unilateral extension of its maritime boundary because several PetroCaribe beneficiaries might have sold out Guyana. “The Statement was extremely terse, as though the Heads would rather be rid of the problem (which might have been the position of ...

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro sent a letter Friday to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asking the U.N. chief to appoint a new Good Officer to diplomatically address the Venezuela-Guyana territorial dispute, according to TelesurTV. “As it is public knowledge, the new Government of Guyana has ignored, the entry into force of the 1966 Geneva agreement, showing a stubborn and ambivalent attitude ...

BY FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL When Sonny Ramdeo embezzled at least $21.4 million from his employer, he didn’t blow the money on fancy cars and waterfront homes. Instead, federal prosecutors said Ramdeo, 38, envisioned himself as the next Sir Richard Branson — with a bandit twist — and used his ill-gotten gains to set up a charter airline company. Ramdeo was sentenced ...