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Music vendors will soon have to remodel their carts and operate a centralized location to help curb noise nuisance and traffic congestion in the capital, Georgetown. “You have to be prepared to compromise to continue your business,” Transport Minister Robeson Benn told the estimated 30 vendors who attended Friday afternoon’s meeting at the St. Stanislaus College auditorium. “The bottom line ...

Government intends to go ahead with the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) expansion project in light of the fact that the hefty sum of US$20M has already been invested for mobilisation, field and laboratory works, Minister of Public Works, Robeson Benn said on Friday. The project represents the latest of government’s ongoing efforts to transform and modernise the infrastructural landscape ...

Residents of Timehri North would not be removing from airport lands, despite the availability of 350 house-lots at Yarrowkabra so that they can remove to make way for the expansion of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA). “No one has said anything to us and we have not been privy to any of the decisions or the processes and we ...

A 27-year old taxi driver was Friday arraigned for the alleged murder of a man during a multi-million dollar robbery committed on a gas station owner earlier this week. Joseph Williams was not required to plea to the indictable charge when he appeared before City Magistrate Fabayo Azore. He was remanded to prison until July 18 when the prosecutor is ...

One gold miner was killed and two others seriously injured in a vehicular accident at Puruni, Region 7 early Thursday night. The dead man has been identified as David Young. The names of the injured were  not immediately available. Sources said the van, bearing number plate GPP 4724, in which the men were travelling was climbing a hill in “high ...

Police Thursday night captured three suspected bandits and recovered two firearms following a gunfight on the East Coast Demerara, police sources said. Sources said Odingo Allen,23, of Brush Dam and Strathspey, East Coast Demerara was shot to his right knee. Elroy Newton,23, sustained lacerations to his face. The confrontation ensued when mobile police patrol foiled a robbery at a Chinese ...

A man has been charged in connection with the robbery-murder committed on an East Coast Demerara businessman and his employee earlier this week as they were heading to a city bank, police sources said. The accused was expected to be arraigned in the Georgetown Magistrates’ court on Thursday, but his court appearance has been deferred until Friday. 71-year old Cecil ...

A man, who had snatched a chain from a tobacco leaf vendor, was on July 11 sentenced to 12 months imprisonment. The sentence was handed down by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine Beharry in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. Shaka Nunes first appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on June 4, for the charge of stealing the piece of jewelry worth GUY$135,000 ...

The government says it will not budge on the new minimum wage policy and that employers who feel set upon can always opt out of the contracts they have with the administration. The remarks by Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon on Thursday came a day after RK’s Security announced that it would be terminating its government contracts over the new ...

Several television stations are preparing to take the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority over what has been described as exorbitant licenses and anti-free speech provisions of the broadcast law. At issue is the GUY$2.5 million license fee for radio and television stations regardless of their size, coverage and market share. They are also concerned about content control provisions of the Broadcasting ...