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Chairman of the Host Country Management Committee (HCMC), Mr. Ivan Graanoogst, has disclosed that 24 countries have so far confirmed their participation in the festival, but that this number is expected to rise to 30 countries by August 16th, the Guyana-based Caricom headquarters said in a statement on Thursday. Speaking at a weekly breakfast with the press recently held at ...

Debate on the long-awaited reformed local government bills was Thursday afternoon deferred after the government refused to proceed with the order voted for by the opposition. At the start of consideration of government business APNU’s Basil Williams moved to bring the four bills up to the top of the Order Paper, displacing the Hydro-electric Power (Amendment) Bill 2013 and a ...

Two light aircraft at the Ogle International Airport (OIA), East Coast Demerara were Thursday afternoon damaged when high winds flipped one of them. It was unclear what the wind speed at OIA was, but another pilot said he was hard pressed to avoid flipping on landing at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) where the wind was estimated at more ...

Aviation experts say that the pilot’s judgment would be a key factor in determining what was  responsible for last Monday’s air crash of a domestic plane at Matthew’s Ridge, North West District. A number of esxperts believed that the aircraft stalled while flying too low and hit trees in the area. Air Services Limited (ASL) has confirmed that the Cessna ...

Air Services Limited (ASL) on Wednesday praised the emergency medical,security and investigative response to Monday’s crash by of one its aircraft in thick vegetation near the Matthew’s Ridge. “ASL cannot overstate the quality of the responses from all of the agencies who answered the call for immediate assistance.  From the initial response on the ground by the Police at Matthew’s ...

In the wake of a spike in banditry during the past week, the Guyana Police Force on Wednesday announced a raft of steps including reorganising patrols and accessing images from citywide surveillance cameras. Chief of Criminal Investigations, Deputy Commissioner Seelall Persaud said plans were being made to access live feeds of images being captured by cameras that are currently being ...

Fullworks Motor Spares’ East Coast Demerara branch was robbed by two bandits at gunpoint, an official of the enterprise said. A manager said two men parked a car some distance away from the Good Hope branch and entered the premises around 2:30 PM. They ordered all the staff members and customers to lay face down. The men carted off an ...

A senior officer and other members of the police force have been removed from a section of the Police Commissioner’s office that handles firearm license applications after they allegedly took monies to fast-track processing. Police Commissioner Leroy Brumell on Wednesday confirmed that Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee has spoken with him about police allegedly benefitting from inducements to fast-track the ...

Police Commissioner Leroy Brummel on Wednesday told traffic cops that they must engage in “harassment” of offending road users to control the “terrible” situation that has claimed more lives. “When you enforce, you hear harassment. If that is the way for us to bring it well, we must do that but we are not calling it harassment. We are calling ...

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on Tuesday decided that Gocool Boodoo’s contract as Chief Elections Officer cannot be renewed and the post must be advertised, according to Commission Chairman Dr. Steve Surujbally. “We will be going to advertise the position and he will be free to re-apply as anyone else,” Surujbally told Demerara Waves Online News (www.demwaves.com). He said the ...