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Three women have been robbed at gunpoint at a beauty salon on Joseph Pollydore Street, Lodge, but so far no one has been arrested, police said Tuesday. Investigators said that at about 10:10 pm, two men rode up on a black motorcycle and entered Simone’s Beauty Salon where they robbed a 23-year-old female make-up artist, a 30-year-old female hairdresser and ...

Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon on Monday said he was prepared to hold constitutionally required consultations with President Irfaan Ali on the appointment of a substantive Chancellor of the Judiciary and Chief Justice. “I wish to categorically state, once again, that I am ready, willing and able to engage in consultations on this matter at the earliest opportunity. I am prepared ...

The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) on Monday gave a ringing endorsement of President Ali’s performance on the occasion of his one year in office and criticised the opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) for attempting to hold on to power. “The CIOG reiterates its support for His Excellency the President Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali and ...

More than $900,000 worth of cellular phones and cash have been stolen from six relatives who were staying at a wedding house at La Union, West Coast Demerara on Sunday, August 1, the Guyana Police Force said. Police say two men and a woman have since been arrested, after they were invited back to the house. Among the robbery victims ...

President Irfaan Ali on Monday said that the confirmation of the Chancellor and the Chief Justice depends on the Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon recognising his government as legitimate. “I am sure Harmon definitively knows who also is the Leader of the Opposition and who is the President so the ball is in his court to do the right thing and ...

President Irfaan Ali  on Monday  announced that public servants would before year-end get retroactive salary increases, even as threw a cloud of uncertainty over the possibility of negotiations with the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU). “Let me assure you that the public servants will receive salary increases before the end of the year and it will be retroactive,” he said. ...

A prisoner, who escaped from the Lusignan Prison early Saturday morning, was recaptured several hours later, police said. Police say 38-year old Quincy Clarke  was arrested on Callendar Street, Albouystown, Georgetown. He was nabbed at about 6:50  Saturday night by policemen and later handed over to officers of the Guyana Prison Service. During his escape at about 2 O’clock yesterday ...

A man has been arrested in connection with a robbery committed on a fisherman at Unity Junction, East Coast Demerara. Police say they have arrested one of the suspects known as ‘Thick Slice” and they are searching for two other men. The robbery was committed at about 5 O’clock  Saturday morning The fisherman told police that the men stole his ...

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), David Granger on Sunday- African Emancipation Day- said race relations was Guyana’s major problem rather than the burgeoning oil sector. “Guyana’s big problem is the problem of social cohesion. You may think that there are other problems- oil and the economy  and so on. The biggest problem we have is the ethnic ...

President Irfaan Ali on Sunday- African Emancipation Day- pledged Guyana’s commitment to work with the rest of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to continue pressing for compensation and other forms of justice for African enslavement “Guyana will continue to support the efforts being made within the Caribbean Community to press for the convening of an international summit to demand reparative justice ...