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The opposition coalition A Partnership for National Unity+ Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC)  and the Guyana Police Force (GPF) have agreed to help beef up security for its Presidential and Prime Ministerial candidates and a number of locations during the campaign, officials said. Police Commissioner, Seelall Persaud did not provide details of the security arrangements but confirmed that the law enforcement ...

Chancellor of the Judiciary, Justice Carl Singh has said that the long-awaited appointment of Senior Counsel now depends on the Office of the President. “The trouble is the Office of the President is yet to say we are ready for your recommendations. They have not given that hint,” he told Demerara Waves Online News in a recent interview. Senior Counsel ...

The two men held in connection with the shooting death of political activist, Courtney Crum-Ewing almost one week ago have so far been cleared of that crime, a senior police officer said Monday night. The police sources said they were now searching for two other men who they believe may be able to provide useful information about the incident that ...

Guyana remains “very confident” that its candidate would be voted in as the next Assistant Secretary General of the Organisation of America States (OAS)  on Wednesday although another Caribbean Community (Caricom) member-state is fielding a candidate. “It looks good so far. Off course, if all the countries that had indicated their commitment to us continue to maintain that commitment then ...

General Secretary (GS) of the Peoples Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C), Clement Rohee, believes the salaries and benefits enjoyed by current government ministers reflects the principles of the “lean” and “clean” government asserted by late President CheddiJagan. A few months after the PPP came to power in the early 1990’s, Jagan, lamented what he perceived to be excessive and wages enjoyed ...

People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary, Clement Rohee on Monday chose to remain mum about counter-claims by Nadira Jagan-Brancier that her father- late President Cheddie Jagan- lived in a simple rather than extravagant lifestyle. “Whenever the General Secretary of this party speaks, it has heavy political weight and therefore I would not wish to make any further statement on that ...

The unions representing workers at the University of Guyana are threatening to call another strike if negotiations with the administration turn out to be a sham and if all salaries for March including the 10 percent interim pay-hike are not paid by Thursday, March 19, 2015. Following is an update dispatched to workers by the President of the University of ...

Police Commissioner, Seelall Persaud said investigations would be conducted to determine whether utterances by Former President, Bharrat Jagdeo and political activist, David Hinds have violated the Racial Hostility Act. Jagdeo, as a former president, enjoys immunity from prosecution. Asked whether there were grounds to enforce that law in light of utterances by Jagdeo and Hinds, the Police Commissioner said “investigations ...

Two teenagers from Diamond, East Bank Demerara were up to Sunday still in police custody in connection with the shooting death of political activist, Courtney Crum-Ewing. Among the theories being explored for the killing is that the perpetrators had considered his use of a loud hailer to urge people to vote a noise nuisance. Crum-Ewing was gunned down at about ...

The opposition coalition’s Prime Ministerial candidate, Moses Nagamootoo Saturday night  heaped criticism on the governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP) for harping back to bad governance by the People’s National Congress (PNC)-led administration. Nagamootoo, a former long-serving member of the PPP up to 2011 when he resigned and joined the Alliance For Change (AFC) as its Vice Chairman, attacked the ruling ...