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Facing the prospect of early general elections,  the Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) on Sunday assured Berbicians that steps were being taken to address their concerns in a bid to regain a parliamentary majority. “We agreed that we need to correct some of our mistakes that we have made and we are bold enough, we are big enough, we are mature ...

In the wake of an Air Traffic Controller (ATC) leaving his post that resulted in a minor delay in arrival of a Caribbean Airlines flight, government has announced that a probe has been launched into the incident. “The investigation will focus on the operational procedures and code of conduct as it relates Air Traffic Control Services being provided by the ...

On the eve of the Peoples Progressive Party Civic’s (PPP) commemoration of the lives and works of late Presidents Cheddi and Janet Jagan at Babu John, the opposition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) was on an outreach in East Berbice. At the helm of the delegation was Chairman of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), David Granger who listened ...

One woman was Friday night shot dead and her sister injured at a home at Fyrish Village, Corentyne. A man wanted for another murder is believed to be the assailant. Another man, who eyewitnesses said was at the scene, was arrested at Nigg Village. He has, however, maintained that he was at home when the incident occured about 10:30 PM. ...

An Air Traffic Controller (ATC) exited the tower at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport around midnight Friday at the same time a Caribbean Airlines aircraft was preparing to land. Reports are that the controller was angry that he was not relieved of his eight-hour shift which ended at midnight particularly at a time he was feeling unwell. The young man ...

The Guyana Nurses Association (GNA) on Friday called on the Ministry of Health to stop taking in more students at nursing schools countywide until overcrowding and poor teaching and learning conditions are addressed. “For some time now, we remained silent while the powers that be consciously or unconsciously manipulated all affairs and aspects of nursing bringing our profession to what ...

Former Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister, Basdeo Panday Thursday night endorsed calls for his country, Guyana and Suriname forge closer trade relations among and target Latin America because the 15-nation Caribbean Community (Caricom) was on the brink of collapse. “My advice would be to consider this suggestion that Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana and Suriname may well find it beneficial to ...

The Working Peoples Alliance (WPA)- yet to decide whether it would participate in a Commission of Inquiry into the bomb-blast death of its late leader Walter Rodney- has urged President Donald Ramotar to erase a contentious term of reference that has nothing to do with Rodney’s death. In a letter to the Guyanese leader on Friday, the WPA objected to ...

A man accused of breaking in to the Brickdam Police Station’s Mess Hall and also spending GUY$500 a constable had given him to buy a phone card was Friday convicted. Police accused Leon Faria of breaking and entering the Brickdam Police Station, and fraudulent conversion. Prosecutor Dinero Jones said that on March 5 about 8 PM, the Mess Hall was ...

A 42-year old man was fatally injured early Friday morning at Westminster in the Parfait Harmonie area and police have arrested his wife and daughter in connection with his death. Dead is Dennis Harris Jr, of West Minister, Parfait Harmonie, West Bank Demerara. Reports are that around 3 am this morning , the man and his wife had a confrontation ...