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The AFC says it voted for the Amaila Hydropower legislation in the National Assembly to ensure the project was not killed since the party supported Guyana’s hydropower ambitions. During Wednesday’s 12 hour sitting which ran into Thursday the AFC voted along with the government to pass the Hydro-Electric Power (Amendment) Bill and a motion to up the debt ceiling from ...

In the fourth gruesome attack on a female by her partner in just over one week, a 17-year old girl was Thursday afternoon beaten and chopped to death at Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara. Her alleged assailant, said to be a 19 19 year old man, has been arrested, police said. The dead girl has been identified as Angela ...

Thirty five persons have been arrested and several items suspected to have been stolen have been recovered, police said. Police said that during Wednesday, 24 men were arrested during cordon and search operations in Kitty, Leopold Street and East Ruimveldt, Georgetown. The offences that that they have allegedly committed include possession and trafficking in narcotics and armed robberies. Two motor ...

(TRAVEL WEEKLY).-The U.S. airline industry and its largest pilots union have stepped forward at the Transportation Department to oppose efforts by two small Caribbean airlines to operate between New York and Georgetown, Guyana. According to papers filed by Airlines for America and the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), the two carriers — Caribbean Airlines and Fly Jamaica — are not ...

Residents of Bartica were Thursday morning breathing a sigh of relief after a puma was shot dead before it could have possibly attacked animals or persons in the residential area of the gold mining township. Devon Douglas said he was having breakfast when a neighbour told him that a young puma was seen resting on a limb in a mango ...

A reworked government motion to increase the debt ceiling from $1B to GUY$130B failed to garner opposition support with an amendment by the AFC dropping the figure to $50B in a marathon sitting of the National Assembly. Government had last month tabled a motion to increase the guarantee on borrowing by public corporations from GUY$1B to GUY$150B but on Wednesday ...

The Alliance For Change voted with the government in the wee hours of Thursday morning to pass the Hydro-Electric Power (Amendment) Bill which is necessary to bring the local law into conformity with the environmental standards of possible Amaila Project financier the IDB. The APNU voted against the bill with chief spokesman on financial matters Carl Greenidge saying that there ...

The National Assembly Wednesday evening unanimously passed the four local government bills ending a 12-year reformation process.  The four bills were seen as essential to the holding of local government elections last held in 1994 but officials from GECOM have said that they would need at least six months from the assent of the legislation to prepare for the polls. ...

The Peoples National Congress Reform is moving ahead with plans to establish a Forbes Burnham Research Institute (FBRI) to promote the work and philosophy of Guyana’s first Executive President. PNCR Leader, David Granger made the announcement Tuesday evening at a commemorative event for Burnham who died on August 6, 1985 at the age of 62 while undergoing surgery at the ...

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS.-) DETECTIVES are investigating the death of a female detainee at the Immigration Detention Centre yesterday. According to police reports, 42-year-old Indira Joseph, of Guyana, was found hanging inside a cell at the centre, located along the Eastern Main Road in Aripo, Arima, around 4.30 a.m. yesterday. PC Modeste of the Arima Police Station is continuing investigations. The centre ...