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Georgetown Town Clerk, Carol Sooba is back in her office after boards were pulled down and hasp and staples ripped out from her office doors that were placed on her doors, just hours after the opposition-controlled City Council passed a motion for her to be sent on administrative leave. Sooba expressed grave concern that none of the nearby City Police ...

Guyanese gold and diamond miners are resisting getting into the mining of other precious metals and stones, according to Chairman of the Board of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC), Clinton Williams. He made the remarks Monday night at the opening and award ceremony of Mining Week whose theme is “Improved Recovery, Reducing Impact: Securing the Future of Mining.” ...

Public Relations Officer of the Georgetown Municipality, Royston King was Monday arraigned on a charge of forgery and he was granted GUY$70,000 bail. King,49, of Lot 3279 Canal Place, South Ruimveldt Park, Georgetown was not required to plea to the charge that was read to him by City Magistrate, Judy Latchman. The charge states that on July 12, 2012 at ...

Police were not immediately clear what was the motive behind Saturday’s night’s shooting death of a waitress behind the counter of a city restaurant but investigators were quite optimistic that they would catch the perpetrator. Commissioner of Police, Seelall Persaud confirmed that video surveillance footage obtained from Delicious Chinese Restaurant, D’urban and Haley Streets, Wortmanville has helped investigators to see ...

(CRICINFO).-The Caribbean Premier League’s (CPL) cricket tournament committee has ruled that match referee Denavon Hayles properly applied the relevant rules in the rain-hit CPL final on August 16, which Barbados Tridents won by 8 runs via the Duckworth-Lewis method. In a release announcing the committee’s finding, the CPL also confirmed that Guyana Amazon Warriors had indeed filed a complaint – ...

A suspect, who allegedly dropped a gun and ammunition after he was shot, died at a private hospital early Sunday morning after undergoing emergency surgery for a bullet wound. Dead is is 26-year old Dexter Lindo of Shell Road, Kitty. He succumbed to his injury about 5 PM at the Balwant Singh Hospital. Family members are disputing the circumstances surrounding ...

Afro-Guyanese have over the decades become too dependent on the State for their economic survival, a situation that has been compounded by the failure of the Peoples National Congress (PNC)-led government to amend the Constitution to cater for its loss of political power, according to prominent Attorney-at-Law , Nigel Hughes. Addressing a public forum organized by the Black consciousness organisation, ...

More than 30 cane harvesters (cane-cutters) narrowly escaped death Saturday morning when a trailer in which they were travelling partly slid into a canal at Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara. A cane harvester said the incident occurred about 7:30 AM when the trailer ended up in a trench while crossing a bridge at the estate. The harvester said the pin that ...

An Australian gold mining company, Troy Resources (Guyana) Inc; hopes that its prolonged wait for a mineral agreement with the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) would soon end and the way would be cleared for gold production to begin. Chief Executive Officer of Troy Resources, Ken Nilsson lamented the bureaucratic red-tape in getting certain aspects of business done in ...

A waitress was shot dead in a restaurant on D’urban and Haley Streets, Wortmanville, Georgetown early Saturday night, police said. She has been identified as 48-year old Debra Blackman, a mother of five. She lived at Critchlow Circle, Tucville, Georgetown. There were no immediate reports of any suspects being arrested in connection with the shooting at Delicious Restaurant.  Police later ...