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Former Executive Member of the governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Ralph Ramkarran believes that the President Ramotar administration has missed a good opportunity to respond specfically to the United States’ (US) calls and criticisms for not holding local government elections. Less than one week before American Ambassador to Guyana, Brent Hatrdt wrapped up his three-year tour of duty here, he ...

The body of a former nurse at the New Amsterdam Hospital was Sunday morning found in the ‘Blacka’ near Sophia, days after he escaped from home, a relative said. He has been identified as 25-year old Terron Watts of New Amsterdam and Sophia. His aunt, Coretta Eastman, believed that the young man committed suicide due to ongoing problems with his ...

Battling years of severe flooding whenever there is rainfall, the residents of 6th Street, Alberttown, Georgetown hope their clean-up exercise and other efforts will be “contagious” enough to spread to other areas of that city ward. They pooled their money and labour to Sunday remove loads of silt and other obstructions from a drain running through their community. Chipping in ...

At least 19 persons, who were allegedly involved in an illegal protest on the Essequibo Coast, on Saturday remained in police custody as an assessment of the situation continued, Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud said. The Guyana Police Force later said in a statement that two tractors, four trailers, two motor cars and two motor cycles that were among the vehicles ...

Rice farmers on the Essequibo Coast were Friday night burning tires and other debris as they continued to blocking the road at Three Friends village with tractors and trailers to demand faster payments by millers. Region Three Chairman, Parmanand Persaud was escorted by police to appeal with the farmers but his effort was in vain. They have expressed no confidence ...

A British national was Friday arrested allegedly with a quantity of cocaine in milk tins shortly before he was about to board a flight to New York, a well-placed source said. The 29-year old man was taken into custody after agents of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) said they found the narcotic in several five-pound milk tins. He was ...

Two badly beaten men were granted bail on Friday after they were arraigned on a charge of attempting to steal a truck shaft belonging to Merriman’s Funeral Home. Fizal Mohamed,32, a mechanic of East Ruimveldt and labourer, 17-year old Michael Eastman of 11 Meadow Brook were each granted GUY$100,000 bail. They pleaded not guilty to the offence when they appeared ...

An American man was Friday arrested by anti-narcotics police at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport after a sniffer dog helped intercept a large quantity of cocaine milk packets, police said. Investigators said that about 1 AM Friday, said a search on the baggage of the American citizen yielded 7 kilogrammes, 57 grammes of cocaine in his suitcase “concealed in milk ...

Opposition Leader, David Granger and Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon were Friday at odds over whether outgoing United States (US) Ambassador, Brent Hardt’s stance on  local government elections amounted to interference in Guyana’s internal affairs. Granger disagreed that the American diplomat’s words and behavior violated normal diplomatic practice.  He believed that Hardt’s views and those of the ...

Even as the Region 10 Coordinator of the Peoples National Congress Reform (PNCR) is still unable to acquire the key to the party’s office in Linden,  party leader David Granger does not believe that the recent altercation between the General Secretary, Oscar Clarke and parliamentarian Vanessa Kissoon has anything to do with upcoming congressional elections. It is no secret that ...