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A young American citizen and an elderly Guyanese man on Thursday appeared in court on separate charges of cocaine possession for the purpose of trafficking to the United States. Twenty-seven year old US Citizen Reuben Lang was sentenced to three years imprisonment and fined GUY$1.5 million for being in possession of 6.92 kilogrammes of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking. ...

GEORGETOWN, GUYANA  — The Carter Center has launched an international election observation mission for Guyana’s May 11elections at the invitation of the government of Guyana, the organisation said in a statement. The core team of experts will be joined this week by six medium-term observers, together representing nine countries. The Center’s observers will meet regularly with representatives of the Guyana Elections Commission, political party candidates, ...

The owner of Hamson’s General Store on Regent Street, Georgetown was stabbed to death, but the motive appeared not to have been robbery, a top police officer said. The body of 56-year old Farouk Ghanie was found in the yard of his residence at Collingwood Avenue, Nandy Park, East Bank Demerara. Head of the Criminal Investigations Department, Assistant Commissioner Leslie ...

Anti-government leaders and activists Thursday morning jostled with police to protest outside the Marriott  Georgetown Guyana where the ribbon-cutting exercise was about to begin to mark the opening of the almost US$60 million hotel. Holding placards, the small group rushed past police barriers to find their way in front of the hotel moments before President Donald Ramotar arrived. Already inside ...

Guyana is expected to deliver training to persons in the medical field from around the region in the area of rehabilitative medicine, according to the Government Information Agency (GINA). During a technical meeting today at the Ministry of Health, Minister Bheri Ramsaran stated that this would be done under the Cooperation and Technical Assistance Agreement among the CARICOM Secretariat, Ministry ...

Parts of Guyana were rattled by a slight tremor Wednesday night, several residents across the country confirmed. An earthquake tracking website stated that about 10:24 PM (Guyana Time) there was a 5.2  magnitude earthquake 89 kilometers from Carupano, Sucre in neighbouring Venezuela. The tremor was felt in Guyana around the same time. No one reported any damage in Guyana. Confirmation ...

GECOM, Georgetown, April 15, 2015 –An agreement was signed Wednesday by the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on the Electoral Observation Process of the 2015 General and Regional Elections. This agreement was compiled by the OAS. The signing took place when the OAS Chief of Mission, Ms. Lisa Shoman visited GECOM. The agreement, clearly ...

Rehabilitation of Guyana’s state-owned fibre-optic cable, which was first laid improperly,  has begun and should be completed before year-end, according to a senior official of the company that has been contracted to do the job. The official of Dax Engineering told Demerara Waves Online News that work began two weeks ago. Government intends to use the Internet service for its ...

The Guyana government on Thursday skirted questions about why public funds amounting to US$13,100 (GY$2.7 million) were used to finance an overseas trip under the guise of a Diaspora Outreach that apparently turned out to be an electioneering mission. Asked why Cabinet had granted approval for the trip to Canada and the United States by several persons, Head of the ...

The Guyana government on Thursday scoffed at reports that outgoing Human Services Minister, Jennifer Webster resigned because she was linked to the discovery of a large amount of cash aboard an executive jet in Puerto Rico. “Neither am I nor cabinet nor the government aware that a minister of the government of Guyana been associated with Mr. (Khamraj) Lall, the ...