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The Joint Services have begun preparing for Guyana’s Local Government Elections (LGE) scheduled for June 12, 2023, and the public should not be alarmed, police said Wednesday. “Members of the public are hereby advised not to be alarmed by an increased Joint Services presence throughout the region,” the Guyana Police Force said in a statement. That civilian law enforcement agency ...

The new high-span four-lane Demerara Harbour Bridge, which will not have to retract for boats to pass up and down the waterway, is expected to trigger the development of more shorebases and other riverside facilities to support Guyana’s rapidly expanding oil and gas sector, Public Works Minister Juan Edghill said. Addressing a workshop by the Inter-American Development (IDB) to support ...

Guyanese are from July, 2023 expected to be able to keep their existing phone numbers but change to a phone company of their choice, Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) Dela Britton announced on Wednesday. “PUC now eagerly awaits the completion of the testing processes and we anticipate that number portability will become a reality in Guyana in July ...

The Guyana Police Force’s Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) on Wednesday issued wanted bulletins for a man and a woman to assist with a money laundering investigation. They are 39-year old Riaz Ally and 29-year old Jennifer Maria Ally nee Ramnarine both of Lot 9 Block CC, Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara. No details of the allegations of money laundering ...

ExxonMobil’s Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) and the Guyana government have asked the High Court to be parties to a case brought by two civil society activists to force the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to revoke the gas-to-shore permit on the basis that that the company has not shown that it has the legal right to use the ...

An American man wanted for sexually assaulting a child in the State of Colorado was arrested in Guyana and has waived his right to fight extradition back to his homeland, authorities said Saturday. Bobby Allen Stark, 52, was arrested on Friday in the vicinity of Movietowne, Greater Georgetown, a high-ranking police officer said. US federal agents were expected to arrive ...

Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire on Saturday afternoon dismissed an application by Mikhail ” Guyanese Critics” Rodrigues in an effort to block the Guyana Press Association’s Elections. The election is  scheduled for 12 PM  Sunday at the Theatre Guild. The judge described the application as “wholly misconceived.” She said the press body is not subject to judicial review. Brought on behalf ...

Police were Thursday investigating a complaint by the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Retired Justice Claudette Singh about reported threat based on remarks allegedly made by opposition APNU parliamentarian Coretta Mc Donald, a senior police officer said. Investigators were Thursday preparing to question the lawmaker about the remarks she allegedly made on May 9, 2023 outside GECOM’s headquarters. ...

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) on Thursday recommended that a 24-year old man be charged with the murder of prominent Guyanese teacher and actor, Kerwyn Mars alias known ‘Sir Mars’, a senior police officer said. “The DPP advised that the suspect Brian Richards be charged with murder committed on Kerwyn Mars,” police said. Richards,  of John Fernandes Squatting Area, ...

Guyana has significantly reduced the number Haitians coming here to avoid them being taken illegally on the potentially deadly journey through Central America to the United States, Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn said Wednesday. “While we are concerned about the human…in relation to those persons  coming through maybe trying to go to Brazil and then on to the US Mexican ...