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A taxi driver attached to the Cheddi Jagan International Airport died Monday morning when he lost control of his car and slammed into a sand-laden truck. Preliminary information is that 42-year old Sooklall “Blinky’ Roopnarine lost control of the car,HB 8254, resulting in the accident at Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara around 7:30 AM.  He was returning to the ...

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Sunday night reacted sharply to a position taken by a committee at the just concluded Congress of the Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) against the proposed Local Government Commission. “The statement emanating from the PPP`s Congress regarding their opposition to the Local Government Commission to be established as a result of the Bill now before ...

The Peoples Progressive Party (PPP), seemingly willing to go ahead with local government elections under the old system, is opposed to the proposed Local Government Commission. “The Local Government Commission is a parallel government system and so we don’t agree with the proposals,” the plenary session of the just concluded PPP’s 30th Congress was told. The group reported to the ...

President and PPP General Secretary Donald Ramotar has garnered the most votes in the election of the members of the party’s Central Committee with his predecessor Bharrat Jagdeo coming in second. The results were released on Sunday as the PPP’s 30th Congress ended at Port Mourant, East Berbice. The 10 new faces are Nigel Dharamlall, Shyam Nokta, Vishwa Mahadeo, Desmond ...

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 ...