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Faced with steadily declining production by the state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco), Guyana is courting the Guatemalan private sector to invest in the sugar industry here, Foreign Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett said Monday. She said officials of the company named San Diego have been already in contact with Guysuco to prepare for a visit to Guyana where they would explore setting ...

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett on Monday said she was probing a report of irregularities at the Consulate in Boa Vista, Brazil. She said a probe was launched after she received a letter from someone that led to unsatisfactory answers in response to very direct questions about a “couple of things”. “There were some specific things in the letter ...

The bodies of two men were Monday morning found washed up on the Meten-Meer-Zorg foreshore, West Coast Demerara, police confirmed. Villagers said it is believed that one of the men had gone to save the other who was epileptic but they both perished. Details emerging….

Medical doctor, Karen Cummings is among persons being considered to replace Debra Backer as A Partnership for National Unity’s (APNU) parliamentarian, multiple party insiders said Monday. With Backer expected to remain in Trinidad until April for chemotherapy, sources said she is expected to step down as a parliamentarian in the coming days to facilitate her replacement in time for debate ...

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 ...