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A  fisherman and a gold miner  were shot dead in two separate incidents in the North West District (NWD) and at Mc Doom, East Bank Demerara. Dead are gold miner, 37-year old Devon Moore  of Stewartville, West Coast Demerara and fisherman 45-years old Elvin Pollard of Crane, West Coast Demerara. In the latest incident, Pollard was in a boat under ...

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee on Thursday said he used his ministerial office to ascertain who had been conducting intelligence surveillance around the headquarters and members of his governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP). Appearing before a Commission of Inquiry into the bomb-blast death of Walter Rodney in 1980, Rohee detailed that persons dressed in shirt-jacs and trousers had routinely monitored ...

An Air Services Limited (ASL) aircraft Thursday morning ran off the airstrip at Kurupung, resulting in damage to the aircraft, according to sources. No one was reported injured in the incident that occurred about 9:40 AM. The sources said that Captain Michael Halim related that the brakes for the Britten Norman Islander, bearing registration number 8R-GAR, failed on landing.   ...

Eighteen soldiers were Thursday morning injured in an collision between a truck and a bus on the Garden of Eden Public Road, East Bank Demerara, a high-ranking officer of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) said. Three of them sustained broken bones and were rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).  Hospital sources said 27-year old John Flores sustained a ...

Cabinet Secretary Roger Luncheon says government is satisfied that the Police Service Commission (PSC) satisfied itself that there was no reason barring the promotions of former torture-accused police officers officers Mohanran Dolai and Narine Lall. Dolai, who was recently promoted to Corporal, and Lall, who was recently promoted to Inspector, were both charged with with intent to maim, disfigure, disable ...

The smaller union representing workers at the Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) on Wednesday backed calls by the larger Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) for an inquiry into the operations of the sugar industry after the second lowest production in 24 years. The union noted that the annual national budgetary subventions are not stopping the hemorrhaging at Guysuco. “The ...

Government on Wednesday said that the state-run Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Inc. is considering reducing electricity tariffs in light of lower globalfuel prices. This message, delivered during Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon’s Post-Cabinet press brief , is likely to be welcomed by private and commercial customers across the country who continue to decry high electricity prices. Manufacturers will find ...

University of Guyana (UG) academic and non-academic staff on Wednesday marched on the Turkeyen Campus, protesting the sloth with which the administration was treating its demand for higher salaries. The University of Guyana Senior Staff Association (UGSSA) and University of Guyana Workers Union (UGWU) want the 26-member Council, the highest decision-making body, to meet and give their stamp approval for ...

The deplorable condition of roads in Guyana’s North West District (NWD) on Wednesday sparked off a picketing demonstration by the Alliance For Change (AFC) outside the Local Government Ministry. A number of party executives and other activists held placards with strongly worded slogans to hammer home their concerns about the earthen roads in the Port Kaituma, Matthew’s Ridge, Arakaka area. ...

Armed bandits early Wednesday morning struck Survival Supermarket on Sheriff Street, Campbelville, carting off a large undisclosed sum of cash, police said. As two of the robbers fled with the cash, they opened fire in the direction of the owner, Parshuram Arjune, who rushed to the scene after he was alerted by guards. A third robber was caught by security ...