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Despite the combined political opposition’s stiff rejection of a proposed 26.7 percent increase in electricity tariffs, government on Monday appeared determined to ask businesses and homes to pay more for the necessity. Reiterating that the rate hike was largely tied to the opposition’s GUY$5.2 billion dollar budget cut from the Guyana Power and Light (GPL), Prime Minister Samuel Hinds said ...

A teacher of the Mahdia Secondary School, who was caught allegedly in a compromising position with a male student, is being investigated for alleged sexual misconduct and he has been sent on leave, officials said. Chief Education Officer Olato Sam said the male teacher has been already sent on leave last week and further action would depend on the outcome ...

A student of the Government Technical Institute, who allegedly hid three 9 MM bullets in his mouth, was Monday refused bail and remanded to prison on a charge of possession of ammunition without a license. 19-year old Frane Mikhail Braithwaite pleaded innocent to the charge when he appeared before City Magistrate, Fabayo Azore. Although defence lawyer, Mark Waldron maintained that ...

The Guyana Bureau of Standards is cracking down on illegal scales at markets, even as plans are being made to impose heavier penalties on sellers caught with the unapproved weighing instruments. Backed up by police, several GNBS inspectors and surveillance personnel seized the 129 scales and one measure from sellers at the Stabroek, Bourda and La Penitence markets as well ...

The Alliance For Change (AFC), warning that the proposed 26.7 percent increase in electricity tariff will spark widespread unrest, strongly recommended a public hearing by the utilities watchdog. “The AFC would like to warn the PPP Government, that this highly ill-advised and unjustified act on the part of GPL, will be provoking huge national unrest,” the party said in a ...

A policeman was early Monday morning electrocuted while chasing a detainee who had moments earlier escaped from custody. The serviceman has been identified as 23-year old Constable 21600 Dorwin Pitman. Power company officials and police sources said he was electrocuted by illegal connections in Sophia. Four hours after the incident, Guyana Police Force spokesman Ivelaw Whittaker said Pitman was found ...

Prominent civil lawyer, Senior Counsel Ralph Ramkarran has recommended that the opposition agree to an amendment to allow for cabinet to give reasons for objecting to the award of a contract. “This compromise position, if supported by the Opposition, would test the bona fides of the Government,” he said in his weekly column published on www.conversationtree.gy Although the opposition parties- ...

Guyana’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community is preparing their submissions for a parliamentary select committee for the repeal of sodomy and other laws they say discriminate against gays and lesbians. Co-Chair of the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD), Joel Simpson said the Guyana Equality Forum (GEF), a coalition of like-minded civil society organisations,” is being geared to ...

A senior official of Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) was knocked down and killed on Sheriff Street, Campbelville. The dead man has been identified as 57-year old Harry B. Singh, a Finance Manager at the local rum and beverage giant. Police sources said the driver of the motor vehicle, Mervin Mangro of Friendship, East Bank Demerara, has been arrested in connection ...

(PHILLY.COM).-The excavator operator charged in the deaths of six people at a Salvation Army thrift store in Center City turned himself in to police Saturday. Sean Benschop, 43, refused to give a statement on his role in Wednesday’s collapse, choosing instead to exercise his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent. He will be arraigned, police said – it’s unclear when ...