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As public servants gradually intensify protests against a five percent pay increase for this year, government’s spending of billions of dollars on wages and salaries is expected to come under scrutiny in the National Assembly. Opposition Leader, David Granger said A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) would raise the issue in the 65-seat House when it meets on Thursday. “It ...

Two gold miners were Sunday night robbed and one of them was shot in the process by two bandits, police said. Investigators were told that about 11 PM Francis Mc Pherson, 38, of Lime Street, Georgetown, and Eon Bourne, 30, of Port Kaituma, North West District, were travelling on an All Terrain Vehicle along the trail at Hymakuru Backdam, Port ...

Transparency Institute of Guyana Incorporated (TIGI) on Monday- International Anti-Corruption Day- organised a march through the streets of Georgetown to demand that government does more to combat the scourge. Notably absent were representatives of the Guyana government which has consistently shrugged off criticisms and low Corruption Perception ratings by TIGI and Transparency International. The government did not issue any official ...

A woman on Monday appeared in court in connection with the discovery of a large quantity of cocaine that was stuffed in Boulanger that was about to leave for Canada. 37-year old Badmattie Persaud of 46 Grass Field, Lusignan, East Coast Demerara pleaded not guilty when she appeared before Chief Magistrate, Priya Sewnarine-Beharry. She was charged with being in possession ...

Persons with connections to the drug underworld were responsible for the gunning down of a former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) soldier last month, police said. Deputy Police Commissioner, Seelall Persaud said the 7.62 rifle that was used to fatally shoot 23-year old Denzil Mingo outside the Edge Night Club/ Hotel Tower on November 16 was used at another execution-style killing ...

Seven months after a sawmill worker was found with his throat slit in a ramshackle living quarters at Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara a prime suspect has been arrested and charged with murder. Shawn Tyson, 28, of Kallicharran Sand Pit Road, Soesdyke is expected to be arraigned Monday on a charge of murder contrary to common law based on ...

Two men were shot dead in Diamond Saturday night during a shootout with police opposite the Diamond Police Station, East Bank Demerara shortly before they were about to rob a gold miner, police said. Guyana Police Force spokesman, Ivelaw Whittaker said that acting on information received that a robbery had been planned to be carried out on a gold miner, ...

Retired Assistant Chief Education Officer, Maude Bullen-Mc Kenzie died on Saturday at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) after a period of illness. She was 69. A source said Bullen-Mc Kenzie, a diabetic, suffered kidney failure and was not responding to dialysis at two hospitals because of a clot that was discovered by doctors to late. She succumbed at the ...

President Donald Ramotar on Saturday left Guyana for South Africa to attend a funeral service for late former President, Nelson Mandela. He died on Wednesday at 95. Disclosure of Ramotar’s departure was made by Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh at the opening of the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry’s (GBTI) branch at Port Mourant. Singh apologised for the Guyanese ...

Three teenage girls- including two sisters- who have repeatedly escaped from a Corentyne shelter to enter the world of prostitution have been ordered to go to the New Opportunity Corps after they threatened to commit suicide.    The girls have been removed from Kamal International Home for Homeless Children and Battered Women and are in the custody of the police ...