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Guyana is gearing up to beat back expected flooding that may accompany expected heavy rains during the Christmas season. “I would want to think that should we have above normal rainfall in the upcoming rainy season that we should be a very good position to response to any threat of flooding,” Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy was quoted as saying ...

The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security on Thursday received the new, elegantly designed Mahaica Children’s Home from telecommunications company, Digicel Guyana. The building was also commissioned by Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Jennifer Webster and Digicel’s Marketing Director, Jacqueline James, who pioneered this project. The reconstruction of the building is an effort to change the lives ...

A businessman, who was shot earlier this week on Orange Walk, succumbed Thursday night at a city hospital, according to sources.He is Jamaican Patrick Forbes of Lance Gibbs Street, Queenstown.The 36-year old man was shot about 1 AM Wednesday while he was with a group of persons when shots were discharged in their direction. The trader and boutique owner was ...

A National Insurance Scheme (NIS) clerk in Lethem was Thursday arrested in connection with an alleged GUY$2 million robbery at a time when social security auditors are in the township, according to well-placed sources. The woman claimed that she was held at knife-point about 8 AM Thursday. Police were summoned and the clerk, who lives at St. Ignatius, was detained ...

(GINA) Cabinet on Tuesday approved the creation and operationalisation of a Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) that will be dedicated to the investigation of suspected financial transactions suggestive of money laundering and financing of terrorism.  Head of the Presidential Secretariat (HPS) Dr. Roger Luncheon told the media of this development today. He added that the unit will be based at ...

A policeman was killed and his colleague seriously injured in an accident involving a motorcycle they were riding on the Zeelugt Public Road, West Coast Demerara on Wednesday night. He has been identified as Constable Shaquille Anderson, a traffic policeman attached to the Parika Police Station. The name and condition of the other policeman, who was the pillion rider, was ...

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) is reiterating its call on government to make a 25% across the board pay increase failing which strike action may be taken by its 6000 strong members. This is according to GPSU Head Patrick  Yarde who stated today at a press  briefing at Shiv Chanderpaul Drive that the move may be taken by its ...

The General Manager of a gold mining company and his two accomplices were Wednesday arraigned on charges of stealing a quantity of cash and GUY$93 million worth of raw gold from El Dorado Mining Company, Port Kaituma. The company official, 46-year old Amirullah “Heavy Roller” Kuturatullah of Number Two Settlement, Blairmont, West Coast Berbice, 25-year old Anil Dayaram of Number ...

Police shot a man believed to be mentally unstable after he chopped a lawman who responded to a report that he was terrorizing students and teachers. The injured policeman has been identified as Inspector Mohan Khan and the suspected mentally deranged man’s name has been given as Christopher Mc Cullen of Timehri Docks. The incident occurred at about 12:45 PM ...

Even as the Home Affairs was using the killing of four persons by a berserk man to reinforce its move to establish a Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team, the major parliamentary opposition was calling for strict gun control. The Home Affairs Ministry said it was “deeply saddened” at the “unfortunate” shooting of the two policemen and two civilians as ...