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The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Tuesday called on the government to subsidise the price of wheat flour, just days National Milling Company announced a 15 percent hike in the staple’s price.  The AFC says the treasury has sufficient money from the extra earnings due to the increase in world oil prices. “The state can easily afford to cover the ...

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Tuesday ruled that Guyana’s Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) could not unilaterally order a Magistrate to conduct another preliminary inquiry but must instead ask the High Court to decide. In a unanimous decision that saw murder-accused Guyana-born American Marcus Bisram being a free man unless there is fresh evidence for the DPP to ...

A Customs Officer, who shot and injured two horse cart operators who went to a vacant lot near his residence for grass for their animals, has been arrested, police said. Police say the Customs Officer used a 9 MM pistol, which is the property of the Guyana Revenue Authority, and opened fire on the men. The incident occurred at about ...

A Guyana Defence Force Corporal was early Monday morning stabbed to death at a wedding house during a dispute over the music that was being played. He has been identified as 28-year old Chavez Mangal of Enterprise, East Coast Demerara. He was stabbed shortly after midnight at Lot 142 Good Hope, East Coast Demerara. Police say they have arrested one ...

The official of the Guyana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ‘ Animal Clinic’ , who shot herself to death in the compound of the Brickdam Police Station on Monday morning, was a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital’s Psychiatric Clinic and she had domestic problems, police said. The Guyana Police Force said 49-year old Trudy D’ Harte ...

A 19-year-old man was killed Sunday morning after he was shot inside a home in Buffalo, Upstate New York,  Buffalo News reported. He has been identified as 19-year old Royden Cave, a  student of SUNY Buffalo State College. College officials said he was a freshman criminal justice major. He was the son of Patrick Cave, a former employee of the ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday  ruled out an increase in electricity bills due to the rising cost of fuel, saying that government would step and subsidise the tariffs.  “We will keep the electricity prices the same way, and water prices, we would have to subsidise it to make sure that the impact is not felt by ordinary people,” he ...

The National Milling Company (NAMILCO) on Friday said the price of flour has been increased by 15 percent. The company says this is due to a steep increase in the price of wheat at a time of the war between Russia and Ukraine. The company notes that the price of wheat has skyrocketed by 40 percent since February 15. NAMILCO ...

People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Leader, Aubrey Norton on Wednesday credited his now three-month long leadership with establishing party groups across Guyana and gearing up to put behind the 2020 general election campaign that he deemed the “poorest run” . “I don’t want to get into the details of what the People’s National Congress Reform has become under the previous ...

President Irfaan Ali on Thursday recommended that representatives of the judiciary and the Guyana Police Force discuss problems and find solutions and cost them. “I want to propose that we have a strategic session because the judiciary can also help us to identify areas of weakness and we can also raise concerns so unless we can come in a room, ...