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Executive member of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Dr. Richard Vanwest Charles has suggested that since the 2020 general and regional elections, his party has fallen somewhat into unconstitutional mode because its Congress is now long overdue. “I would not say a crisis but I would say there is a deviation from the constitutional requirements and hence has damaged ...

A Cessna Caravan belonging to BK Aviation on Wednesday ran off the runway at Eteringbang in western Guyana but there were no immediate reports of injuries, a senior official of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) said. Acting Director-General of the GCAA, Chitranie Hiralall told Demerara Waves Online News that the “runway excursion” occurred at about 11:34 AM. She said ...

The Haresh Singh murder case file never disappeared, but was not available in the Magistrates’ Court when the case was last called because investigators were doing additional work, the Guyana Police Force said Tuesday evening. “At no time whatsoever was the file missing,” Head of the Criminal Investigations Department, Senior Superintendent Wendell Blanhum was quoted as saying in a police ...

The Western Hemispheric Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) is securing seeds, potato slips and cassava sticks from Jamaica and Brazil to help revive Guyana’s agriculture sector that has been ravaged by severe floods for more than one month now, officials said. Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha said IICA has already provided seedling trays and seeds to the National Agricultural ...

Six persons have been arrested in connection with more than 13 kilogrammes of marijuana and 190 rounds of ammunition that were seized from a house at Pike Street, Sophia, police said. During a cordon and search operation at about 3 AM in North Sophia, police said they seized 13.166 kilogrammes of marijuana and 190 live .45 bullets. The Guyana Police ...

The decomposing body of a man, who went overboard the Demerara Harbour Bridge earlier this week, was Tuesday morning found on the Kingston seashore, Georgetown, police said. Police said the body has been identified to be that of Dellon Thorne. Investigators said the man allegedly jumped into the Demerara River from the Harbour Bridge on Sunday, July 11. The body ...

A group of Cubans in Guyana on Monday afternoon protested outside the Cuban embassy, in solidarity with their fellow citizens back in Cuba who are involved in countrywide protests there. Citizens of the Cuban communist -run Caribbean nation, in a historic, move have taken to the streets in Cuba to protest economic hardship in the country, lack of democracy, food ...

The Guyana Police Force has been securing an average of just over 20 percent convictions for domestic violence cases in recent times, based on figures released by Police Commissioner Nigel Hoppie even as he welcomed more conducive conditions at courts for victims to testify. In a rare disclosure of detailed crime statistics in recent years, Mr. Hoppie said in 2019 ...

Second doses of the Sputnik vaccine have arrived in Guyana but priority will be given to persons who got their first dose in April, Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony said Monday. “We have now been able to get second dose Sputnik V into the country and, as of tomorrow, we will start administering the second dose of the Sputnik-V,” he ...

An enforcement officer of the Guyana Revenue Authority was early Monday morning stabbed to death allegedly by the landlady’s son while demanding that he vacate the apartment he is renting. Dead is 24-year old Dwayne Daniel Taitt. Police say he was killed by the landlady’s son, one day after the landlady notified him that he has to vacate the apartment ...