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Guyanese anti-drug agents have discovered a quantity of cocaine stashed in a wood charcoal that was bound for the United States (US), a senior official said. “During the examination, Officers observed four strange objects in one of the bags which did not confirm with the description of the charcoals that were declared for export. As the objects were probed, a white powdery ...

Opposition coalition Prime Ministerial candidate, Moses Nagamootoo is not daunted by the failure to attract a large number of Indo-Guyanese at its rally in his home-village of Whim, Corentyne earlier this week. Among the estimated 5,000 mostly Afro-Guyanese attendees were very few Indian Guyanese, a feature that Alliance For Change (AFC) Leader, Khemraj Ramjattan is challenging. “There were massive amounts ...

Bharrat Jagdeo is still the President of Guyana and Donald Ramotar is merely a politician but they both live at State House, if we are to go by the latest version of Guyana’s voters list. The Revised List of Electors (2015) published on the Guyana Elections Commission’s website also states that Ooma Jagdeo is listed as a resident of State ...

Two bogus cops- arrested at house allegedly with drugs, a gun and ammunition- were Monday charged with several robbery offences. One of them, who is a former soldier, had escaped from police custody while under guard and receiving treatment at the Georgetown Hospital for a gunshot wound he sustained during a recent robbery at PopEye’s, Vlissengen Road, Georgetown. They were ...

Three persons were killed and several others injured early Monday morning when the vehicle they were in was involved in an accident on the West Coast Berbice, police sources said. They are 22-years old Tommy Thomas of John Street, New Amsterdam and 19-year old Jevon Gregory of Stanleytown, New Amsterdam. One of the dead persons has not yet been identified. ...

Former president Bharat Jagdeo told a rally in Kitty on Sunday that the opposition parties, if elected into power, will create adverse conditions which will force Guyanese to apply for visas in increasing numbers, thereby forcing the United States (U.S.) Embassy in Guyana to clamp down on visa distribution here. Sunday’s rally marks the official commencement of the party’s election ...

Former A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Member of Parliament (MP) Africo Selman has formally joined up with the Peoples Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) and came out swinging against her old party during the party’s Kitty rally on Sunday. Selman, whose resignation from APNU took effect on February 26th, expressed her “sincere gratitude” to the leaders and members of the ...

The opposition coalition of A Partnership for a National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) Sunday night promised an increase in Old Age Pensions, an end to piracy of fishermen in Berbice and ensure that the sugar industry remains open. Addressing about 5,000 persons at his home-village of Whim, Corentyne Prime Ministerial Candidate Moses Nagamootoo said in the first 100 ...

The two men who were arrested by the police on Friday March 27, 2015, in a house at Diamond, East Bank Demerara. A firearm and ammunition and narcotics were found. The men have been identified as being two of the men who posed as police and conducted an illegal roadblock at Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara, on March 18, 2015, and ...

Former Finance Minister in the People’s National Congress (PNC)-led administration, Carl Greenidge has defended his purchase of a house from a state-owned corporation in the 1990s, saying that it was above-board. That’s quite in contrast to Former President Bharrat Jagdeo’s suggestion that Greenidge acquired the property at Bel Air Gardens in 1993, four months after leaving office when the PNC ...