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The prime suspect in the stabbing death of his child’s mother was Tuesday morning found hanging in an abandoned house in Wismar, Linden, police said. The Commander of Regional Police Division #10, Mr Hugh Winter named the man as Leseton Baynes. The Police were looking for Leseton Baynes following the stabbing death of 22-year-old Kelly Charlotte, a teacher of 790 ...

Guyana on Tuesday rejected Venezuela’s arguments that the United Kingdom (UK) is a necessary party to this former British colony’s case on the validity of the 1899 Arbitral Tribunal Award, and asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to focus the conduct of the arbitrators. Venezuela, for its part, wants the ICJ to find that Guyana’s case is inadmissible because ...

Police in Linden were Monday morning continuing their manhunt for the prime suspect in the killing of a teacher after she broke up their relationship. Dead is 22-year Kelly Charlotte who lived at 790 One Mile Extention, Wismar, Linden. Police said they are looking for the son’s father, a 28-year-old truck driver of One Mile Extention Wismar, Linden. Charlotte was ...

Attorney General Anil Nandlall says the Chief Immigration Officer and the Commissioner of Registration of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) cannot collaborate to remove the names of non-resident Guyanese from the national database of registrants. “He fails to appreciate that insofar as that Regulation authorises the removal of names from the National Register of Registrants (NRR) on the basis of ...

The World Bank Group has announced the three-year debarment with conditional release of an individual consultant in connection with a corrupt practice as part of the Petroleum Governance and Management Project in Guyana. The debarment makes Mr. Carlos Barberán Diez, a Spanish national, and his controlled affiliates, AC Oil & Gas SL and AC Oil & Gas Emirates LLC, ineligible ...

Ilan Goldfajn was elected president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) on Sunday during a Special Meeting of the Bank’s Board of Governors. The meeting was held at IDB Headquarters in Washington, D.C., with delegations attending virtually and in person, the hemispheric bank said in a statement. Nominated by Brazil, Goldfajn will take office for a five-year term on December ...

The main opposition parties on Friday separately condemned the 8 percent retroactive salary increase for 2022 and demanded a 25 to 100 percent increase in the minimum salary to take account of inflation. Opposition Leader and Chairman of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Aubrey Norton  recommended a 25 percent increase which would see ...

Justice Navindra Singh has rejected claims by Queen’s College Deputy Headmistress  Lenise Morgan that he was aggressive towards her while he was at the school for a meeting concerning the alleged assault of his daughter by the son of the Ministry of Education’s Chief Education Officer. “While it is difficult to properly answer your last query since you did not ...

Guyana on Friday told the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that, contrary to Venezuela’s position,  the United Kingdom ceased having any role to play in the border controversy over the Essequibo Region since 1966 when independence was granted. Lawyers for Guyana told the ICJ, the United Nations top judicial body, that the UK now had no responsibility for the 1966 ...

Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC) Khemraj Ramjattan on Friday said it was going ahead with its decision to walk away from the coalition of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) at the end of 2022. Mr Ramjattan said the exit would take place at the end of December 31, 2022  and he would “at the appropriate time write” ...