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Almost five months after a young adult surfaced and accused House Speaker, Raphael Trotman of sexually assaulting him, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has advised that there are no grounds to charge the prominent attorney, according to well-placed sources. Efforts to obtain a comment from two high-ranking officers of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) were unsuccessful. However , a ...

University of Guyana (UG) staffers on Wednesday rejected a counterproposal by the university’s negotiating team for a wage and salary hike, but say they are prepared to return to work next Monday if their own counterproposal is accepted. The unions added that they are also open to going back to work if the administration submits a favourable proposal during a ...

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 ...