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The owner of Blue Iguana club, Royston Peniston, has been arrested allegedly with GY$2.1 million worth of cocaine in hardcover suitcases at a house in North Ruimveldt, the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) said Saturday. The anti-drug agency said its agents intercepted Peniston,44, at the property in Festival City with two hardcover suitcases in his possession. “A subsequent search of the ...

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) on Saturday reoccupied the partly dismantled building that  has housed its office in Lethem, Region Nine (Upper Takatu-Upper Essequibo) since 1975, but Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Nigel Dharamlall signaled that tough action would be taken against trespassers on State property. “This government will not be bullied by the PNC into condoning ...

The Bahamas’ Prime Minister Phillip ‘Brave’ Davis on Saturday denied holding talks with Guyana’s Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on the political situation here and said when the local politician attempted to seek the intervention of the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM), he was promptly told to put his concerns in writing. “When he did attempt to raise matters concerning the issues ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton has informed Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Chairman, The Bahamas’ Prime Minister Phillip ‘Brave’ Davis about the “deteriorating” political situation in Guyana as part of an expanding regional and international lobby. “I set out to provide CARICOM with the information. What CARICOM will do is their decision. I don’t anticipate that CARICOM will become involved in our political ...

ExxonMobil, the operator and major stakeholder in the prolific Stabroek Block, has been informed that it would have to relinquish unused gas fields back to the State of Guyana, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said Friday. In addition to associated gas that the supermajor said was needed to maintain pressure and quality during extraction of crude, he said the discovery at ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Friday flipped out copies of what he said are letters that government had written to the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) asking for that party’s office in Lethem to move out of the State-owned building there. He said one letter was written to then PNCR General Secretary Amna Ally in 2021 and two others to ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Friday announced that the Guyana government planned to offer cargo flights to a number of far-flung interior regions where the cost of freight would be ordinarily expensive. “The aircraft we are looking for are to allow us to better serve the hinterland community including if the freight costs are too high for goods and services ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Friday announced that Guyanese would vote in general elections in late 2025, amounting to a take-back of the five months between the election in March, 2020 and the declaration of the results in August. Many people believe  that this is really the two-thirds point in the term of the People’s Progressive Party. It is not. ...

Even as Shadow Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Roysdale Forde said political parties’ headquarters were untouchable, Local Government and Regional Development Minister Nigel Dharamlall said the building that housed the People’s National Congress Reform’s (PNCR) office in Lethem has been earmarked for a health care facility. “The location of this site is slated to have a health facility ...

In the wake of government’s pre-dawn dismantling of the People’s National Congress Reform’s (PNCR) office in Lethem, the party on Thursday afternoon insisted that it owns that property and was preparing to file legal action for assault, trespass, and the removal of party property “The property is ours and we will enforce our rights in the courts,” he said. He ...