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Guyana’s opposition coalition intends to change the constitution to allow for parties to team up after a general election to prevent the one with the plurality from forming the government, a top official of the Alliance For Change (AFC) said Saturday. AFC Chairman, Nigel Hughes signaled the coalition’s intention to do so at a rally at Anna Regina where the ...

The opposition coalition Saturday night promised the largely rice-dependent Essequibo Coast that it would examine ways of ensuring that lowly-paid farmers receive higher prices for their paddy and that they get a fair share from sales to Venezuela. Prime Ministerial candidate Moses Nagamootoo appealed to the rice farmers to vote in favour of a government that would bring an end ...

Surinamese police allegedly assaulted the Guyana Ambassador to that neighbouring country, Keith George while he was blocking the arrest of his chauffeur inside the embassy in clear violation of international law. Guyana’s Foreign Ministry said George insisted that no arrest could take place on the premises because that would be a breach of the Vienna Convention, but the police said ...

Three men have been arrested in connection with a spate of robberies in East Berbice during Thursday night, police said. Following is the full text of a statement issued by the Guyana Police Force. At about 2030h. last night Thursday April 02, 2015, three men, one of whom was armed with a firearm and the others with cutlasses, entered the ...

A 58-year-old businessman was on Friday, April 2 refused bail at the Georgetown Magistrates Court on a drug trafficking charge. Colin Clyde Prescott of Linden, pleaded not guilty to the charge, when it was read to him by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.  Particulars of which said on March 30 at Silver Hill, Linden Soesdyke Highway, he was busted with 178 ...

A Jamaican man, who attempted to smuggle more than one kilogramme of cocaine in lotion, was Thursday jailed for five years and fined GUY$3.4 million. Richard Daniels, 20, wad found guilty for being possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking. He was busted with 1.236 kilograms of cocaine concealed in two bottles of lotion and two and a half ...

The incumbent People’s Progressive Party Civic’s (PPPC) Prime Ministerial candidate, Ambassador Elisabeth Harper on Thursday brushed off suggestions that she was campaigning alongside Former President, Bharrat Jagdeo against whom domestic violence accusations have been leveled. “I am not interested in commenting. I don’t have time to comment on those criticisms. I have bigger issues to deal with which is to ...

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) in February  commenced the country wide roll-out of upgraded internet speeds delivering new plans with speeds up to 10Mbps, the fastest ever in Guyana, the company said in a statement. As promised by CEO RK Sharma at a media dinner back in January, GT&T is delivering faster internet speeds throughout Guyana, which started with ...

Even as the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) increased its Internet speed in several areas of the country, the telecommunications provider on Wednesday appeared increasingly impatient with being unable to offer higher data speeds on mobile devices. “We are a company that is a regulated company and obviously this can’t be an indefinite wait but we are hoping the ...

GEORGETOWN – Kaieteur News admitted this morning that an article titled “US revokes four Gov’t officials’ visas” that was published today was purely a work of fiction. To be clear, the US Embassy has not cancelled any visas of high-ranking Government officials nor is the US Federal Bureau of Investigation in country questioning individuals as the article states. Kaieteur News ...