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Mr. Jonathan Yearwood on Monday resigned from the executive member of A New and United Guyana (ANUG) over the failure of his party to hold long overdue internal elections. Mr.  Yearwood says also that he has resigned because of the ANUG executive has refused to suspend Akanni Blair from the executive because he is embroiled in a fuel purchase controversy ...

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) on Monday opposed the Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield being a party to a High Court case for “true” copies of the Statements of Poll and Statements of Recount to be handed over to police and the DPP as part of a probe into alleged electoral fraud. Mr. Lowenfield, who is one of several ...

A businessman and a woman were  Sunday night robbed of $1.3 million in cash, jewellery and 30 vehicle registrations by three gunmen who invaded their home at Friendship, Corentyne, Berbice. The 57-year old businessman and the 23-year-old woman told police that the “masked” bandits attacked them about 8 PM Sunday while they were in their yard. “The victims were sitting ...

Three persons  are dead and two others, including an eight-year old,  are injured after a vehicle driven by a fireman ran off the road at Kairuni Public Road, Linden-Soesdyke Highway and and struck a group who was sitting in the curb, police said. The Guyana Police Force said fireman,  39-year old Kevin Bizzeth of Rainbow City, Mackenzie, Linden was speeding ...

An early Monday morning fire destroyed a house and severely damaged several others in the congested residential area of Albouystown, Georgetown. The fire began shortly after 1 AM and ripped through several wooden houses at James and King Edward Streets. Fire Chief Kalamadeen Edo told News-Talk Radio Guyana/ Demerara Waves Online News there were no immediate reports of injuries. He ...

Two men have died after the driver of the car lost control of the vehicle which slammed into two utility poles on the Timehri Public Road on Saturday night, police said. The Guyana Police Force identified the deceased as 24-year old Pascal Dainty of Unity Place,  Festival City,  North Ruimveldt, Georgetown, and 32-year old Delon Whitehead of William Street, Kitty, ...

Four residents of Better Hope, East Coast Demerara have been robbed by a gun-toting bandit of cash, jewellery and other items with a total value of GYD$841,000. Police said he has not yet been arrested for the robbery that was committed at about 10:15 Saturday night. Those robbed are a 45-year old businesswoman, a 44-year old fisherman, a 23-year old ...

President Irfaan Ali and Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Saturday said that Guyana’s sovereign wealth fund would be restructured to spend the ‘oil money’ on significantly improving the country’s social and physical infrastructure. “That is the stage we are in now- giving Guyana that opportunity to become competitive, giving us the people of Guyana the opportunity to get world-class services, ...

Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh on Saturday virtually ruled out the Guyana government establishing a State-owned airline once again. “It is not currently on the agenda to establish a state-owned airline,” he told a trade and investment forum at the the Inaugural Diaspora Conference. He noted that a government investing a State-owned airline is too risky, citing the example of ...

Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Retired Assistant Police Commissioner Paul Slowe on Friday denied that he conspired with others to defraud the Guyana Police Force of GYD$10 million and that he sexually assaulted a female police officer. Through his Attorney-at-Law, Selwyn Pieters, Mr. Slowe also indicated that he would filing a lawsuit against the Police Force for sullying the ...