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The son of a government official  was Wednesday granted GUY$400,000 bail on a charge of allegedly raping a 14-year old school girl. Vishnu Singh was granted pre-trial liberty when he appeared at the Sparendaam Magistrates’ Court, East Coast Demerara. Singh, 24 years, lives at Better Hope, East Coast Demerara. The incident allegedly occurred on the East Coast of Demerara.

Even as a sit-in strike at the University of Guyana continues into its 10th day, unions and the institution’s administration are Wednesday expected to resume negotiations, President of the University of Guyana Senior Staff Association (UGSSA) Melissa Ifill said. At the same time staff and students are expected to picket outside Office of the President during midday while President Donald ...

Under tight security, at least 28 Guyanese d‎eportees were Tuesday afternoon escorted to police headquarters shortly after coming off a US government chartered flight.  The MD-82 jet touched down at the Cheddi Jagan Internationa Airport at exactly 2:39 PM, as a small number of relatives and friends mingled in the viewing gallery. Prior to being granted permission to leave the ...

Attorney-at-Law, Sase Gunraj was Tuesday morning sworn in as an Elections Commissioner before President Donald Ramotar, having been nominated by the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC). He replaces long-serving Commissioner Dr. Keshav ‘Bud’ Mangal who resigned from the post last month due to health reasons. Gunraj was selected by the governing party, ending much speculation that  the replacement would have ...

University of Guyana Vice Chancellor Professor Jacob Opadeyi  Tuesday morning joined the picketing demonstration, appealing to lecturers to return to work and promising them that salaries would be increased. He declined to comment beyond the statements on the placards. The academic and non-academic staff have been on a now almost two-week old sit-in strike to demand a 60 percent increase ...

University of Guyana students Tuesday morning blocked the gate to the Turkeyen Campus  to shut down operations there as part of efforts to press demands for improved teaching-learning conditions. Security guards chained the gate to posts to prevent the students from locking them. A Deputy Vice Chancellor entered the compound, escorted by a man brandishing a firearm although there is ...

The East Bank Essequibo village of Vergenoegen was Tuesday still in a state of mourning for four persons, including three children, who drowned while returning from a ritual at the foreshore, police said. Those, who perished on February 1, 2015, are 53-year old Radika “Nadira” Persaud of 13 Vergenoegen Public Road, 14-year old Rovin Persaud, nine-year old Annatina Persaud and ...

The United States (US) will Tuesday afternoon deliver 28 Guyanese deportees- the single largest number in years- to the land of their birth aboard a charter flight, Police Commissioner Seelall confirmed. “It might be the biggest  from the US in the last many years,” he said, adding that he could not recall any being sent from as far back as ...

A High Court writ was Monday filed challenging the constitutionality of Guyana’s two-term presidential term limit that prevents Former President, Bharrat Jagdeo from running again. Filed by Cedric Richardson of 4 West Ruimveldt against the Attorney General, Anil Nandlall and the Speaker of the National Assembly, Raphael Trotman the motion seeks to scrap the term limit clause in the Constitution. ...

Staff and students of the University of Guyana (UG) on Monday agreed to shut down the Turkeyen Campus on Tuesday to pressure authorities into increasing salaries and improving the teaching-learning environment. “The students have advised me that they are planning to shut the campus down so they might actually preempt us so I suggest based on the response that we ...