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A businessman was Friday night robbed of his gun and a quantity of cash shortly after returning home, police said. At about 1950h. yesterday Friday May 29, 2015, a businessman and a female relative had just returned to their residence in Kitty, Georgetown, when they were held at gunpoint by two men.  The perpetrators took away the businessman’s licensed revolver ...

An overseas-based Guyanese was Friday afternoon busted with more than six kilogrammes of cocaine in rum in bogus duty-free bags at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, according to well-placed sources. Twenty-one year old Keon Brewster, who was booked to travel on a Dynamic Airways flight to New York, has since identified two air condition technicians who allegedly gave him the ...

Former President Bharrat Jagdeo wants the High Court to quash a temporary travel ban imposed by the Lower Court on him until the hearing and determination of private criminal charge that he allegedly uttered racially divisive remarks. Through his Attorney-at-Law, Mursalene Bacchus, Jagdeo on Friday petitioned the High Court to remove the travel restriction because of his “international obligations he ...

Despite the refusal by the opposition People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) to accept the results of general elections held earlier this month, the United States (US) is crafting a new project that seeks to mobilize grassroots support for national unity. Charge D’Affaires of the US Embassy in Guyana, Bryan Hunt said his diplomatic mission has already begun gleaning from civil ...

A gold miner was killed Friday when a quantity of loose earth collapsed on him while he was operating mining equipment under water, police said. The dead man has been identified as 64-year old Anton Thomas of Kamarang. The incident occurred at about 11:45 AM on May 29, 2015 at Quimenang River, Upper Mazaruni. The body is at the Kamarang ...

by Zena Henry Even as government sets to consider a massive GUY$16 billion bailout for the financially crippled Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), Agriculture Minister Noel Holder is even more anxious to put together the team of Commissioners to probe the ailing sugar sector before the end of next month.  “The Commission of Inquiry will inquire into what went wrong, any ...

Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman is now tasked with the responsibility of managing the country’s natural resources and is scheduled to meet with all the agencies under his purview in the coming weeks.  The announcement was made on Friday May 29. Trotman who is the Governance Minister within the Ministry of the Presidency took up his appointment earlier in the ...

by Zena HenryCharged with the security concerns of the country, Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramattan says that he is currently trying to settle in to his “complicated” Ministry, but the newly appointed head of National Security is already eyeing several important areas in his ministry where he believes investigations are warranted. Among those are the areas of gun licensing and ...

by Zena Henry With the new cleaning frenzy sweeping across the city, vendors of the Stabroek Market and citizens of South Georgetown are scheduled to commence massive cleanup exercises this Sunday. Already, fire fighters, who are based at the Stabroek, turned out in their numbers on Friday to lend a hand to the clean-up effort around the Caribbean’s largest public ...

by Zena Henry The new Administration has a few more matters to address as they settle in to their new positions of leadership before the reopening of the Parliament, but it is expected that this will be done before June 4 or June 11 to facilitate the seating of the Eleventh Session. The government is hoping for the earliest June ...