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The Peoples Progressive Party’s (PPP) call for Georgetown’s councillors to be booted out and replaced with an Interim Management Committee (IMC) appear to be hot air because there is a pending court case against the establishment of an un-elected body to run the city’s affairs. Opposition politicians in and out of City Hall on Sunday also said even if the ...

In the wake of several weeks of uproar and legal wrangling between the Town Clerk, Carol Sooba and most of the Councillors of Georgetown, the governing Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) on Saturday called for the Council to be removed and replaced with an Interim Management Committee (IMC). “The PPP demands the removal of Hamilton Green and the entire City Council ...

The University of Guyana (UG) will shortly begin consultations about plans to increase tuition fees t cater for the depreciation of the local dollar during the past 19 years. Outgoing UG Pro Chancellor Dr. Prem Misir preferred to say that the tuition fees would most likely be “adjusted” rather than increased depending on the outcome of the consultations. “What we ...

Two policemen were Thursday charged with facilitating the escape of a murder suspect from lawful custody and they were granted bail. The charges were arraigned before Magistrate Clive Nurse at the La Grange Magistrates Court, West Bank Demerara. Constable 20836 Garfield Brown and Constable Smith were granted GIUY$75,000 bail each. The facts are that they allegedly allowed murder suspect, Troy ...

A man was shot dead less than 10 minutes after he grabbed a bag of money belonging to Black and Decker Hardware Store, Main Street, Georgetown. The bandit has been identified as Lloyd Hazel. Police said a firearm was recovered from the bandit. Well-placed sources said Hazel and an accomplice snatched the bag from a taxi that was taking an ...

The Peoples National Congress Reform (PNCR) is preparing the groundwork should its leader, Retired Brigadier David Granger be subpoenaed to appear before the Commission of Inquiry into the bomb-blast death of Guyanese political activist, Dr. Walter Rodney. Attorney-at-Law, Basil Williams told Demerara Waves Online News that the PNCR was ready for the appearance of Granger, a former Commander of the ...

A Guyanese woman who allegedly attempted to smuggle cocaine to Spain through the post office was Friday arraigned on a cocaine trafficking charge and remanded to prison. She is 49-year old Sandra Daniels of 2 Dennis Street, Sophia, Greater Georgetown. Appearing before City Magistrate Judy Latchman on May 8, she pleaded not guilty to having been in possession of 274 ...

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) has already surpassed its first crop target but the President of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), Komal Chand says there is nothing to shout about because it was a low target. “First of all you have to recognise that the target was low…The fact that you have a low target and you ...

Guyana’s mining and construction sectors are now poised to benefit from lower fuel consumption hydraulic excavators. They are being supplied by Machinery Corporation of Guyana (MARCORP) Guyana  Limited.  Company officials stressed the greater fuel efficiency of the new D2 series hydraulic excavators during a demonstration exercise at Providence, East Bank Demerara. The Government Information Agency (GINA) reported that Prime Minister ...

A graphic designer was jailed Thursday for being in illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition with which he had been caught more than three months ago. Dellon Morgan of 149 DÁndrade Street, Newtown-Kitty, Georgetown was sentenced to three years each for being in illegal possession of one Luger pistol and illegal possession of four rounds of 9 MM ammunition ...