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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 ...

(GINA) Over the past three days, about 300 Cuban trained Guyanese have returned from the Spanish-speaking island to serve their country. Two hundred medical doctors arrived at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) Timehri on Wednesday while on Tuesday a batch of 99 graduates comprising agronomists and engineers returned. Minister of Public Service Dr Jennifer Westford was at hand to ...

A man Thursday night went berserk and chopped his wife and three of their children at their Sophia home. Initial reports suggest that the angry man, Shawn Fordyce, did not want his wife, 47-year old Dorothy Blackman, to go out. Blackman is said to be a newspaper vendor on Orange Walk, Georgetown. When she opted to send someone to buy ...

The drowning of a three-year old child, killing of an elderly man and the shooting of a businessman during a robbery of a supermarket are among incidents on Thursday’s police blotter. Investigators said the boy-Doukuan Edwards of Industry, East Coast Demerara- was found in the creek at Marudi, Soesdyke/Linden Highway at about 9 AM Thursday. Police said they are investigating an ...

A senior officer of the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) was early Thursday morning killed as he was returning from an event at Fort Wellington, West Coast Berbice to usher in African Emancipation Day, officials said. Dead is Sub-Officer, Linden Mc Almont who was based at the Central Fire Station headquarters in Georgetown where he had been responsible for Quarter Master ...

The 1823 Coalition says it is determined to erect a monument to the Demerara slave revolt at Parade Ground despite the work being done by the government at a Carifesta Avenue location. The Coalition has long argued that Parade Ground was the appropriate place to locate the monument since it was there that rebelling slaves were tried, convicted, sentenced and ...

Eight passengers of the Caribbean Airlines plane that crashed at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) two years ago are suing the airline for more than GUY$8 million each. Court papers filed by their attorneys, Sase Gunraj and Jaya Singh, on July 26, 2013 state that they are each claiming damages in excess of GUY$1 million for personal injuries, loss ...