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A gold miner was killed and two others were injured on Monday when a tree fell on them during a storm at Sandhill Backdam, Cuyuni River, police said. The Guyana Police Force says Olrick Matthews of Port Kaituma, North West District, died while 49-year old Edwin Garraway of Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara and 40-year old Bryan Richards of ...

A 44-year old man was early Tuesday morning robbed of $1.2 million dollars in cash by two men, police said. The robbery was committed by two known men at Parika, East Bank Essequibo at about 1:30 AM. Investigators were told that the victim, along with his son and a work-man, came from Leguan after conducting business. The victim reported to ...

Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon on Monday called on President Irfaan Ali to resign for allegedly interfering in the work of the Police Service Commission (PSC), but the governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP) accused him of double-standards. “The attempt to influence the work of the Police Service Commission is reprehensible and renders the President unfit to hold office and he should ...

Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony on Monday announced that Guyana has purchased 150,000 of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine to be administered to persons mainly in the interior regions, as part of the overall plan to build up resistance to the coronavirus by most Guyanese. “I think once we are able to get that, it will be very appropriate ...

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) is preparing to relocate at least 14 persons from the Graham’s Primary School, East Coast Demerara so that the building could be sanitised in time for students to write mock Grade Six examinations in early June,  CDC Director-General Lt. Col. Kester Craig said Monday. He said another building is being prepared to house those persons ...

President Irfaan Ali Monday denied claims by the Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Retired Assistant Police Commissioner Paul Slowe that he sought to influence who should be promoted. “It is therefore not only opportunistic but a total lie that my meeting with Mr Slowe was to exercise any influence. This level of distortion and public mischief by the ...

The Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Retired Assistant Commissioner Paul Slowe on Monday alleged that President Irfaan Ali sought to politically influence that body that is responsible for disciplinary action and promotion of police officers. President Ali was said to be awaiting a transcript of Mr. Slowe’s press conference before issuing a reaction to the claims. Referring to ...

Two West Bank Demerara sluice operators, who did not turn up for duty to close a sluice door at Vreed-en-Hoop are to be punished if they are found guilty of negligence, officials said Sunday. Top Region Three administrators said residents and businesses located at Vreed-en-Hoop/ Plantain Walk area, West Bank Demerara were flooded early Sunday morning because the sluice operators ...

Well-known Guyanese cultural icon, teacher, musician and administrator, Daphne Rogers died  on Sunday after a period of prolonged illness, a close colleague said. Up to her retirement from government service a few years ago, Ms. Rogers had been a long-serving Administrator of the National Cultural Centre. She was 92 years old. She died at her niece’s residence at Parfaite Harmonie, ...

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) on Sunday received a GYD$10 million donation from Mid-Atlantic Oil and Gas to be spent on flood relief operations countrywide, officials said. The cheque was handed over by Mid-Atlantic’s Corporate Secretary, Glenn Low-a-Chee to the Director-General of the CDC, Lt.Col. Kester Craig. “Obviously,  we realize what’s going on with the flooding and we wanted to ...