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A light Cessna aircraft skidded off the Aishalton airstrip on landing and crashed into a fence Friday but the authorities appeared unaware of the incident. Reports are that around 4pm Friday , the aircraft , a Cessna U206A , bearing United States registration N6HQ,  was shuttling between Aishaton and Gunn’s Strip in the Region 9 area when it approached the latter location for ...

Delegates at the Peoples Progressive Party’s  (PPP) 30th Congress will Sunday know who will be in charge of their affairs for the next three years when results in Saturday’s voting are known. It was not immediately clear how many delegates voted in the party’s poll held at the JC Chandisingh Secondary School, Port Mourant. However, Presiding Officer Mahmood Shaw said ...

Delegates of the Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) on Saturday urged their party to overhaul the General Registrar’s Office (GRO) because of the opposition was being given preference in getting birth certificates to register on the voters’ list. In reporting to the plenary session on the Political Situation, Shyam Nokta observed that there have been several reports of favouritism in getting ...

In the face of a rusty political machinery among ordinary people, the governing Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) also wants its Civic component to become more involved in political work. That was one of the recommendations of the committee that discussed Party Organising at the 30th PPP Congress that entered its penultimate day on Saturday at the JC Chandisingh Secondary School, ...

Police were Saturday morning probing an alleged murder-suicide involving a man and his wife at Mahaica, East Coast Demerara. Dead are Angela Richmond and Ryan James. James, a former soldier, allegedly clobbered his wife with a hammer before drinking poison. A subsequent police release stated that Richmond’s body bore multiple stab wounds. James was a former soldier in the Guyana ...

As delegates to the Peoples Progressive Party’s (PPP) 30th Congress prepare to Saturday discuss parliament and elections, President Donald Ramotar says the tattered organisational machinery that led to the party losing its parliamentary majority must be fixed. Delivering the General Secretary’s Report at the August 2-4 event being held at the J.C. Chandisingh Secondary School, Port Mourant, Ramotar attributed the ...

Two Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) officers and a security agent attached to the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) were Friday refused bail for allegedly conspiring with others to ship 11.4 kilos of cocaine via the airport last weekend. It is alleged that on Saturday July 27, the trio , Anthony Thomas , Ravindra Singh , called “Ravi” and Gregory Loo, ...

Guyana’s governing Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) on Friday opened its 30th Congress at Port Mourant, Corentyne, leaving middle-level leaders to stridently signal that fresh elections could be on the horizon to resolve 21-month long political gridlock. Chairman of the PPP’s Region Six branch, Dr. Vishwa Mahadeo highlighted that the one-seat parliamentary majority by the Alliance For Change (AFC) and A ...

The Alliance For Change (AFC) says it is ready to support the hydro-electric bill but is calling for the motion to increase the debt ceiling to be tied specifically to the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP) in order to avoid giving the government a blank slate to go borrow. The AFC and APNU two weeks ago voted against the Hydro-Electric ...

The body of a Mocha youth who went missing earlier this week was found Friday morning in the backdam of the East Bank Demerara village. Delon Melville, 25, of Nelson Street, Mocha, was last seen alive by his family on Monday. Demerara Waves Online News understands that the partly decomposed body was found around 6AM by several individuals who were ...