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Police say they are searching for three men who allegedly robbed a businesswoman at her shop at Rockstone Junction in Region 10 of more than GYD$400,000 worth of jewellery, cellular phones and other items. The robbery occurred at about 10 O’clock last night by the men who were riding XR motorcycles without number plates. The 57-year old businesswoman told police ...

The Inter Religious Organisation of Guyana (IROG) on Saturday endorsed the decriminalisation of the possession of small amounts of marijuana for religious use by Rastafari, and at the same time urged authorities to ensure there is no widescale abuse of the plant. “While the IROG is not calling for indiscriminate smoking of marijuana to be legalized, it calls on the ...

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) plans to invest US$292 million in building a modern transmission and distribution system, and the company is banking on behavioural change to stop losing GYD$4 billion (US$18.6 billion) annually to electricity theft, Chief Executive Officer Bharat Dindyal said Friday. “We have developed a masterplan for transmission and distribution,” he told a webinar organised by ...

The Public Utilities Commission (PUC) will Friday morning focus on the state of Guyana’s electricity and energy sector  in its second webinar. The webinar begins at 9:30 AM and will be carried live on News-Talk Radio Guyana 103.1 FM and Demerara Waves Facebook page on www. facebook.com/demwaves . The PUC says the general public can join the webinar by registering ...

The propeller for a single-engine Cessna plane on Thursday disintegrated  on takeoff at the Kamarang Airstrip, sources said. The sources said no one was injured. The aircraft, bearing registration marking 8R-DAC,  is owned by Orlando Charles’ Domestic Airways. It was being piloted by a Nicaraguan man whose only name that is immediately available is Herbert Sources said the plane was ...

People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Leader, David Granger on Thursday appeared to have dug his heels in, despite dissent among several of his party’s Central Executive Committee (CEC) members over his alleged failure to properly consult that body about the entry of two unknown parties into A Partnership for National Unity (APNU). The CEC group, moments before a virtual observance ...

Several executive members of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) are calling on their party leader David Granger and General Secretary Amna Ally to cease taking unilateral action in violation of decisions taken by the Central Executive Committee (CEC). The statement notes that Mr. Granger and Ms. Ally are subjected to CEC decisions, being the highest decision forum in the ...

The Guyana government might have to write off just over GYD$19 million that had been spent on buying a closed circuit television system for the National Intelligence Centre in 2015 but which has never been delivered and the now bankrupt company cannot be located, officials said Wednesday. “This was a matter that was entered into and the CCTV (Closed-Circuit Television ...

The New York Police Department (NYPD) says Guyana’s Attorney General Anil Nandlall is under investigation for aggravated harassment, but he has already publicly denied the accusation. NYPD says they received a complaint from United States-based activist Rickford Burke. The Detective Squad at the 71st Precinct in Brooklyn, New York is conducting the investigation, according to the law enforcement agency. It ...

The General Secretary of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU), Coretta Mc Donald on Wednesday listed a number of conditions under which the union would support plans by the Ministry of Education to reopen school. Speaking with News-Talk Radio Guyana 103.1 FM, she said the Education Ministry would first have to consult with the union and during those talks the union ...