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Prime Minister Samuel Hinds has expressed scepticism about a proposed US$75 million re-metering programme aimed at reducing electricity theft, saying that the high-tech system is not fool-proof. Making a presentation to the parliamentary sectoral committee on energy, he noted that in other countries like the Dominican Republic thieves have been able to hack and manipulate the supposed anti-theft meters using ...

A plain clothes policeman, whose mouth reeked of an alcoholic beverage, Sunday afternoon drove a car into a gutter and broke down a nearby fence. Residents said a bullet proof vest and ammunition were removed from the car bearing number plate PLL 7698. They pointed reporters to a number of Guinness bottles that they said that were removed from the ...

Six men have been arrested in connection with an armed robbery committed on a Linden businessman at his last month, police said. The Guyana Police Force said they also seized an unlicensed 12 gauge shotgun along with three cartridges, a bulletproof vest, and some of the jewellery and a cell phone. The probe stemmed from an armed robbery committed on ...

A Security Supervisor attached to Kaieteur News was this morning shot to the left  shoulder by one of two armed bandits at Middle Road La Penitence. Omar Bynoe of 112 CC Street Agricola who was armed at the time, returned fire and is suspected to have struck one of the bandits twice in the back.  A hospital source told Demerara Waves ...

Peoples National Congress Reform (PNCR) political activist, Rawlewayne Payne died on Saturday in hospital after a brief illness just over one month since he was married, a family member said. He was 42. Payne was a former Region Four (Upper Demerara-Mahaica) Councillor, having served from 2006 to 2011. He was also a former executive member of the PNCR’s youth arm, ...

The Amaila Falls Access road is on track to meet a March 2014 deadline, as it has reached a completion rate of 80 percent, 50 of which was done in 2013, Engineer attached to the Ministry of Public Works, Walter Willis told the media. At the Ministry’s press conference today, to review its performance in 2013, Willis gave the completion ...

(ST. KITTS-NEVIS OBSERVER).-A man arrested for a cold murder case in St. Kitts is wanted by Guyana on drug, gun trafficking charges but authorities here cannot extradite him. The 41-year-old St. Kitts native, Dexter “Pilikin” Somersall was on Wednesday (Jan 22) charged with the murder of28-year-old Leon “G-man” “Gravo” Westerman. The Stoney Grove resident was shot dead in Nevis in ...

The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) has gotten little or no concrete assurance that workers will carry home more money this year through wage hikes and tax reliefs. “The only thing beneficial is that we got a good understanding about how the government is performing but then is not that we went and we said we want ...

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has asked Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh for a 45 percent wage increase for last year and this year an increase in the income tax threshold to GUY$100,000, according to a senior union official. 1st Vice President of the union Mortimer Livan , who was  a member of the union’s delegation that met Singh ...

An Agricola woman was on Friday night murdered and an overseas based visitor injured in what is believed to be a robbery murder. The lifeless body of 55-year old Donna Taylor of 1617 Public Road, Agricola was found with her throat slit and her hands bound. Demerara waves was told that her Husband Bertram Taylor, a security guard, went home ...