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Royston King, who acted as Town Clerk of the Georgetown Municipality, is being accused of signing a waiver for GUY$36 million in interest without authority and on a date preceding his short-lived appointment. But a source close to King has defended him, saying that the letter dated July 13,2012 might have been an administrative glitch because the Council had decided ...

(JAMAICA OBSERVER).-ST GEORGE’S, Grenada (CMC) – Grenada police have formally charged a Guyanese-born journalist with two counts of stealing, forgery and uttering a forge document. Police said that Rawle Nelson, who in July 2013,  began working as a consultant and managing editor with Moving Target, the company which owns Meaningful Television and is also the publisher of the weekly Grenada ...

A resident of Craig Village, East Bank Demerara was early Good Friday morning shot by one of three armed intruders at his home, police said. Amarnauth Ramdeen, 19, has been hospitalized for a gunshot injury to his right elbow. Guyana Police Force spokesman, Ivelaw Whittaker said the young man was aroused by noise in his home and on checking was ...

Heads of the police and defence forces are expected to be among the first group of persons to testify before the Commission of Inquiry into the death of world-renowned historian and Guyanese political activist, Dr. Walter Rodney. An official of the commission told Demerara Waves Online News that the immediate focus would be on institutions. “That will lay the groundwork. ...

Five men were Thursday morning charged with the murder of kidnapped businessman, Rajendra Singh. They were remanded to prison until May 21, 2014. Charged with the capital offence are Adony  James, 31 years, of Roxanne Burnham Gardens, Georgetown; Sheldon Chase, 28 years of Pike Street, Kitty: Doonauth Ketwaroo called “Pumpkin”, 27 years, of Good Hope, East Coast Demerara; Tony Thomas, ...

Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon on Thursday announced that he is suffering from gastro-intestinal cancer and that it has spread to his lungs. He made the announcement at a news briefing on his third day back at his desk after being on sick leave for the past three months. Luncheon later told Demerara Waves that he was ...

Three children on their way to sit the National Grade Six Assessment Examination were Thursday morning seriously hurt in an accident on the East Bank Essequibo Public Road. The name of their school was not immediately known. Eyewitnesses said a bus transporting beef collided with the minibus in which the children were travelling.

In the wake of the opposition’s more than GUY$37 billion disapproval from the National Budget, government on Wednesday signalled that it would be finding ways of spending the money. “There are ways and means to which we can find mechanisms to restore that which has been disapproved but the fundamental point,” Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall ...

The Ministry of Agriculture said in a statement that NAREI in keeping with its plan to diversify the sector as part of its work programme embarked on the planting of a number of non-traditional produce to which demonstration plots were commenced by researchers from the Institute. Among the non-traditional crops currently grown are garlic, carrot, turmeric, ginger, chic peas and English ...

A man has been charged with assaulting his girlfriend by hitting her vagina with a piece of iron because she refused to have sexual intercourse with him. Thirty-five year old Shawn Peters pf 183 Callendar Street, Albouystown was charged with unlawfully assaulting Ashanti Goodrich on April 13 at Charlotte Street, Georgetown. He was also charged with threatening behaviour towards Goodrich. ...