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Opposition coalition Presidential Candidate, David Granger Monday night said if he is elected to office next month soldiers involved in same-sex relations would not face discrimination but they would not be deployed to the same location in order to avoid adverse impact on operations. Addressing a Candidate Issue Session organised by the Guyana Women’s Roundtable and the Guyana National Youth ...

The Carter Centre is preparing to gradually deploy a 40-member mission to observe next month’s general and regional elections, according to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). GECOM said in a statement that this was indicated by a precursor team of medium term observers from the Atlanta, Georgia-headquartered Carter Centre during last Friday’s meeting with GECOM Chairman, Dr. Steve Surujbally, when they ...

The Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) Monday afternoon explained the cause of a major shutdown Sunday night that affected the city and several villages in Demerara and Berbice. The com-pany said that at approximately 8:18 Monday night,  a canter while en route east along the railway embankment crashed and broke a pole at Mon Repos supporting a primary 69 kv ...

The incumbent People’s Progressive Party (PPP)  and the opposition coalition have locked horns over the ruling party including several families on its list of candidates for next month’s general and regional elections. The coaition of a A Partnership for National Unity+ Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) has labeled the PPP-Civic’s list as “nepotistic” in the face of President Donald Ramotar and ...

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) Radha Krishna Sharma is dissapointed by  issued the Public Utility Commission’s (PUC) rejection of the company’s recent request for an increase in domestic rates for the first time in 10 years, saying the country has lost an opportunity for lower international rates and improved quality of service. “We are ...

Two guns and several rounds of ammunition were seized in just over five hours by police at separate locations. In the first instance, at about 8PM Sunday April 12, 2015, while conducting investigations into a report of threats, the police recovered an unlicensed .32 pistol along with 17 rounds at 4 Miles, Arakaka, North West District. A man has been ...

By Janelle Persaud  A trader in Lethem is hospitalised after he was allegedly beaten by a group of persons believed to be members of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) stationed in the border community. The man, identified as Melvin Shewprasad, says he is himself a former member of the defence force. Demwaves understands that the incident stemmed from an argument ...

Suriname has apologized to Guyana for the attempted arrest of an employee of the Guyanese  embassy and the assault of Ambassador Keith George in violation of international law, according to the Foreign Ministry here. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs wishes to inform that the Honourable Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, Minister of Foreign Affairs, has received a formal apology from her Surinamese counterpart, ...

Just hours after Former Chief-of-Staff of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), Retired Rear Admiral Gary Best announced his endorsement of the opposition coalition, the incumbent People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) warned that a plan was afoot to militarize Guyana. Addressing an election campaign rally at Bartica, Public Works Minister Robeson Benn expressed concern about the increasing number of ex military ...

The non-governmental organisation, Blue CAPS, on Saturday called for an end to “cuss out” politics, even as it launched its own manifesto of demands that it intends to press the new government to address. “We decided that we will a proactive step and generate what we believe is an organic list of demands, that we can hold politicians accountable to ...