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A Rural Constable in Mahdia is believed to be Guyana’s first homicide victim for the New Year-2015. Sources in the mining community said that Andre Britton was stabbed to death by a young man about 12:55 AM who was among numerous persons liming on the street to bid farewell to 2014. Britton was rushed to the Mahdia Hospital where he ...

President Donald Ramotar on Thursday-New Year’s Day- stopped short of directly confirming that he would be running again for the country’s highest office in general elections widely expected during this year. In his Address to the Nation, he often referred to “my government” executing a number of plans and programmes after it would have sought a fresh mandate from the ...

Authorities on Wednesday shied away from saying when the search for the Britten-Norman Islander plane that went missing earlier this week would be called off, but noted that the operation was now in a critical period with the passage of 72 hours. Air Traffic Controllers around midday Sunday reported losing communication with the pilot during a shuttle of zinc sheets ...

After more than two days of aerial searches, several Special Forces soldiers were Wednesday morning  rappelled into thick virgin forest but did not find the missing aircraft and two persons who were aboard, according to a well-placed source. The source said that the decision to put boots on the ground was made based on accounts from residents in the area ...

A United States-based Guyanese lawyer and his brother, who is a local businessman, are suing Dynamic Airways for inconvenience caused due to lengthy delays and flight cancellations in recent weeks. Moses Rambarran is also urging all passengers affected on the New York-Georgetown route to become parties to a class-action lawsuit that seeks to, among other things, demand full refund of ...

(EL UIVERSAL).-The Venezuelan government has released a communiqué in response to the recent statements made by Guyanese Foreign Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett on the Guyana-Venezuela border controversy, where the Guyanese official noted her country was exploring options other than the Good Offices process, agreed upon by both countries to settle their dispute. In the communiqué, Venezuela underlines “it is willing and ...

With still no sign of the missing Britten Norman Islander aircraft, the search and rescue operation widened its areas close to the intended destination Karisparu – an Amerindian community in Region 8 (Potaro/Siparuni) today, December 30, the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) said Tuesday. Eyewitness reports indicate that the aircraft was spotted closer to Karisparu, which prompted the decision to ...

As Guyana’s ruling People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) aims to regain its badly needed parliamentary majority in early elections, the government appears to have smudged its own image again in the eyes of the Amerindians. This time, President Donald Ramotar’s alleged utterance to a heckler at Aishalton, Rupununi has sent the administration scurrying to explain the circumstances of what might ...

Search and rescue teams triangulated a search area approximately 20 miles west and south of Mahdia Tuesday, December 29 for the missing Britten Norman Islander aircraft 8R-GHE which disappeared on Sunday, the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) said. The authority said that the expanse of dense jungle is within the area of interest as determined by map terrain information and aircraft ...

Rescuers Monday narrowed their search for a missing light aircraft to “an area of high probability” in Guyana’s jungle, well-placed sources said. The area was identified after members of the search and rescue mission interviewed miners and other persons in the area. A number of them were taken aboard aircraft to help the search and rescue mission pin-point the area ...