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A man from Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo was ambushed, shot and robbed of more than GUY$1.6 million on the Eccles Old Road, East Bank Demerara on Friday afternoon. Police said that about 2:30 PM, Persaud,34, of 139 Tuschen,East Bank Demerara was in a motor vehicle along with a friend when they were attacked by two men on a motor cycle armed ...

Automatic Voter Machines (AVMs) are to be used here for the first time at the University of Guyana’s Students’ Society (UGSS) elections as a pilot project to ascertain whether they could be used in a general or local government election. “Of particular interest to the University of Guyana and by extension the country in general, is the secured transmission of ...

The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Friday accused Attorney General Anil Nandlall of helping to hatch a plot of alleged sexual abuse of a minor against House Speaker Raphael Trotman, but Nandlall has rebuffed those charges. “The AFC has received information that apart from the involvement of the staff, the Senior Government official was himself directly involved in the falsification ...

A Brazilian woman was killed in a boat collision and fire on the Mazaruni area Friday afternoon, according to well-placed sources. Police later issued a statement, saying that investigations have so far revealed that the boats, captained by Eugene Charles, 58 years, of Parika, East Bank Essequibo and Clifton Melville, 19 years, of  Fifth Avenue, Bartica, were proceeding along the Mazaruni ...

Gunmen Friday afternoon beat and robbed a gold smith and pawnbroker at Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara of millions of dollars in cash and jewellery before firing several shots in the air during their escape, police sources said, Sixty-three year old Gopaul Brijmohan of Lot 5 Dundee, Mahaicony was beaten about his head after he refused to hand over the valuables ...

Embattled House Speaker, Raphael Trotman signalled strongly on Friday that he would not resign from that Constitutional Office unless he is charged, even as he maintained his innocence of any sexual offence. Asked specifically whether he would resign if charges were insitituted against him, Trotman said he would address that next Tuesday. He, however, suggested that he would not inhibit ...

The credibility of the man, who has accused House Speaker Raphael Trotman of sexually assaulting him when he was teenager, has been already called into question, even as the sister of a government minister called on her fellow lawyer to defend himself. Attorney-at-Law, Jaya Manickchand – a sister of Education Minister Priya Manickchand- is at the centre of the controversy ...

TravelSpan, a travel agency, on Wednesday announced that it was preparing to refund passengers or place them on another carrier, after an arrangement with the airline that provided the planes collapsed. The travel agency said it was no longer a General Sales Agent for Vision Airlines that saw that carrier providing scheduled charter services on the Guyana-New York route. TravelSpan ...

Field and factory workers in the Berbice sugar-belt on Wednesday agreed to return to work on Thursday, after the state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) agreed to reinstate a man who was fired for allegedly slapping the Skeldon Estate Manager who allegedly used racial slurs at him. The decision to reinstate Stephen Daniels formed part of the Terms of Resumption at ...

A Guyana Defence Force plane crashed on Wednesday at Camp Jaguar in the New River are, but no one was injured, the army said in a statement. “None of the persons on board was injured,” the GDF said. Well-placed sources said the plane was badly damaged. The GDF explained that the plane, bearing registration GDF-3, crashed on landing at about ...