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Government is spending as much as GUY$25,000 on fuel for each of several privately-owned buses that have been deployed to provide free transportation to commuters and force minibus operators to negotiate a fare structure.  That easily works out to an estimated GUY$250,000 per day for the 10 buses that have been put on several routes. “The public transportation system has ...

A taxi driver was Monday arraigned in a charge of robbery under arms and refused bail. Twenty-nine year old Jesse Knights, a driver at GEM’s Taxi Service, pleaded not guilty to the offence. Knights of Independence Boulevard (Punt Trench Dam) is accused of, being in the company of another person who was armed with a gun, robbing Desiree Fredericks of ...

General Secretary of the governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP) on Monday denied that he has been ratcheting up concerns about the voters list as a way of attacking the Chief Elections Officer, Keith Lowenfield. “We welcome Mr. Lowenfield’s assumption to office…We have no interest in attacking anyone personally at GECOM. We attack issues. We deal with the issues and not ...

(UN NEWS SERVICE).- Guyana became the latest country to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which is widely regarded as the first international human rights treaty of the twenty-first century and one of the fastest to be ratified. “The 150th ratification is evidence of the commitment by the international community to promote and protect the ...

Colwyn Harding- the man who has alleged that police had sodomized him with a baton- was Monday back in hospital with a protruding intestine after a man allegedly cuffed him. Harding’s condition is listed as serious. He was due to undergo emergency surgery later in the day, according to well-placed sources. He was rushed to the Georgetown Hospital about 3 ...

The ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP) on Monday, signaling that government would not give into opposition demands for the naming of local government elections date, said it was on high alert for disruptions. PPP General Secretary, Clement Rohee backed President Donald Ramotar’s position that Opposition Leader, David Granger’s call for local government elections to be held was both ambiguous and ...

Villagers at Letter Kenny Village, Corentyne woke up Monday morning to peace and calm following a night of violence that erupted after a young woman was knocked down and killed by a vehicle that might have been used by criminals. Reena “Asha” “Ashmanie” Devi had just disembarked a minibus and was crossing the road when she was struck down by ...

Police in Mabaruma are probing the desecration of a tomb and the stealing of the corpse’s head, according to well-placed sources. Investigators have so far been only able to retrieve an axe and one pair of gloves nearby one of the tombs. The tomb of Chris Allicock was broken into, the body partly removed and the head chopped off and ...

A prisoner was stabbed by a fellow inmate at the Mazaruni Prison on Sunday, police and prison sources confirmed. The victim has been identified as Theon Smith,21, and the alleged assailant’s name has been given as Akeem Edwards. The incident occurred around noon. A team of investigators from the Bartica Police Station was dispatched to the Mazauni Prison to probe ...

At about 2335h. last night Saturday September 13, 2014, two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun, held up a man in a shop at James and Non Pariel Streets, Albouystown, and took away his gold  jewellery and escaped.. The body of one of the perpetrators was later found on Sussex Street, Albouystown, with a suspected gunshot wound ...