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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 ...

Vice Chancellor of the University of Guyana, Professor Jacob Opadeyi’s call for workers to be in “full operational mode” because classes resume from Monday has been labeled a “threat” by the union that says the “sit-in strike” continues. President of the University of Guyana Workers Union (UGWU), Bruce Haynes on Sunday reiterated that his union and the University of Guyana ...

A drunken driver, who ploughed into pedestrians early Sunday morning and killed them, was caught at his home, police said. Dead are Adrian Osborne,23, and Colin John,20, of Henrietta, Essequibo Coast. Police said they were walking along the roadway at Richmond, Essequibo Coast  about 3 AM Sunday when they were struck down by a motor vehicle.  Osborne and John were ...

Two gold miners were attacked at gunpoint in the city Saturday night and robbed of cash and valuables. Andre De’ Abreu, 34, was shot to his left side and has been admitted to a hospital. His friend, 35-year old Jason Ramjattan, who was in De’ Abreu’s car, at the time was robbed of his cellphone. Investigators were told that about ...

A newspaper vendor was Sunday morning shot outside a newspaper distributorship in Georgetown, police said. Investigators identified him as 47-year old Warren Accra of Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara. The incident occurred about 7:20 AM on Robb Street, Georgetown near Scotia Bank. The distributorship supplies vendors for Kaieteur News and Guyana Times newspapers. Police said that a man, who was ...

Landline Internet users will “in the very near future” experience ten times faster bandwidth speed but mobile users would have to wait a bit longer because government is yet to grant approval for frequencies to allow 3G and 4G services. The announcement of higher speeds at lower costs was made by the Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Telephone and ...

The Council of the University of Guyana (UG) has instructed the university’s negotiating team to resume negotiations with the unions on wage increases and other benefits, although this may not be enough to convince staffers on sit-in to go back to work. The decision was taken during an extraordinary Council meeting held this evening in the university’s Education Lecture Theatre ...

Donald Rodney- the lone witness to the bomb-blast death of his brother, Dr. Walter Rodney, in 1980- on Friday told a commission of inquiry that his brother was killed when a walkie-talkie supplied by a then Guyana Defence Force (GDF) soldier exploded during what was supposed to be a test near the country’s major jail. “I recall an incident in ...

Two Guyanese and a Guyanese born Canadian citizen are currently in police custody after they were allegedly caught attempting to smuggle cocaine through Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) early this morning, January 30, 2015. A man, who identified himself as Kenneth Jones, presented forged documents from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Airport Duty Office (ADO) indicating he was ...