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The opposition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) has promised to push for Bartica to be designated a town and for a number of ills like poor waste disposal to be addressed. Already, the area is often described as a gold mining township where business has been booming largely due to a spike in the price for the precious yellow ...

The Working Peoples Alliance (WPA), seemingly divided over whether it should participate in the Commission of Inquiry into the bomb-blast death of its co-founder Dr Walter Rodney, has opted to allow party members to do as they see fit. “After a careful assessment of the issues involved for and against participation in the work of the Commission, bearing in mind ...

Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh is calling on the parliamentary opposition to put the country first as the parties prepare to begin debate on the $220B budget on Monday. His exhortation comes in light of indications from both the APNU and AFC that they are prepared to effect cuts to this year’s Estimates despite a court ruling which ruled ...

A taxi driver was Friday night gunned down in his car on the Strathspey Railway Embankment, East Coast Demerara. Police identified the victim as 24-year old Roopchan “Dave” Darsan of Logwood, Enmore, East Coast Demerara. Investigators said his body was found in his car about 10:50 PM “with a suspected gunshot wound to the head”. Police did not say if ...

Eight persons were rendered homeless  fire Saturday morning at Determa Street, Linden. They are the Browne family whose head of the household is Donna Browne. She is currently in Georgetown. The origin of the fire is unknown. However, sources said the fire is believed to have started in one of the rooms shortly after 6 AM. The six occupants at ...

Arson is suspected to be the cause of the early Saturday morning fire that seriously damaged a building housing the Family Planning Association of Guyana on Croal Street, Georgetown. This is the second fire in less than one month to have targeted the health sector, the first being the Medex Building at Liliendaal. The Family Planning Association off Guyana is ...

A North Ruimveldt man was jailed for four years and fined more than three times the value of marijuana that was found in a hole of the wall of his home. The convict is 38-year old Jeremy Stuffle of 3048 North Ruimveldt, Georgetown. His girlfriend, Marcia James, was freed as the case against her was discharged. Stuffle was fined GUY$544,500- ...

The Port Kaituma businessman who burnt  wife and four children in their house earlier this month, died Friday morning while undergoing treatment for severe burns. Police said that at about 0320h. today Friday March 28, 2014, Linus La Cruz, 50 years, of Port Kaituma, NWD, succumbed at the GPHC where he had been admitted suffering from burns to his body. ...

President Donald Ramotar says much of the $6B earmarked for GuySuCo in this year’s budget will be directed towards mechanisation of the industry in light og labour challenges.  The president, at a press briefing yesterday, at the Office of the President, explained that in all of the estates there has been the issue of shortage of labour and obviously “we have ...

Two children were allegedly poisoned to death by their mother at their Perth, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara home. They are one year old Jabarie Cadogan and his four year old sister Odaceia Cadogan. The boy died at the Mahaicony Cottage Hospital and the girl succcumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.  Their mother, Awena Rutherford, was alive and was being ...