The Attorney General Anil Nandlall welcomed the High Court’s decision to throw out a pro-opposition election petition but Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon castigated the court, suggesting that the ruling was politically motivated to favour the People’s Progressive Party (PPP). “This is a clear attempt to protect the installed PPP regime from scrutiny and from being removed from government where they ...
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High Court throws out second opposition election petition
Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire on Monday dismissed the pro-opposition election petition against the 2020 March, 2020 general elections, saying that the Recount Order 60 and the relevant laws that were used were constitutional and legal. The Chief Justice has to now issue the relevant consequential order and certificate. She found that Section 22 of the Election Laws Amendment Act was ...
Read More »Man wanted for Charlestown shooting death caught in ‘Devil Hole’
The man, who was wanted in connection with the gunning down of a man on Drysdale Street, Charlestown, was arrested by police at ‘Devil Hole’, in Region Seven, police said. Police said Lenroy Michael Forde was arrested by police, with assistance of two Supernumerary Constables, based on “intelligence received.” Investigators have linked Mr. Forde to the gunning down of Odingo ...
Read More »East Bank Demerara supermarket owner robbed while opening for business
The owner of a supermarket at Diamond, East Bank Demerara was Saturday morning robbed by two bandits one of whom was armed with a handgun, police said. The victim, Lianggeng Wu, told police that he was robbed of GYD$300,000 cash when the robbers forced him at gunpoint to reenter his supermarket named Tan Yuan Meng and located at Lot 593 ...
Read More »Venezuelan soldier shot in Guyana; assailants flee to Venezuela
A Venezuelan soldier was Saturday shot and injured at Imbotero, North West District by two Venezuelans who escaped from Guyanese police and returned to Venezuela, Guyanese police said. “The suspects fled the scene and escaped over the border into Venezuela, after being pursued by ranks from the GPF (Guyana Police Force),” that law enforcement agency said in a statement. A ...
Read More »Cash-strapped GUYSUCO to pay workers one-off payment calculated on 2019 salaries
The ailing state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation (GUYSUCO) Friday night announced that workers would get a one-off payment calculated at five percent of six months salaries two years ago, following talks with a government delegation led by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo. The union explained that the pay-out would be calculated on the workers’ earnings in 2019. However, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo’s ...
Read More »PNCR Leader says he improved party’s performance, properly managed APNU+AFC coalition
Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), David Granger on Thursday credited himself with improving his party and being the first leader to have been elected President of Guyana since 1985. “I know there is noise out there but I am not worried about that. I faced noise before, I faced rivals before and other competitors but in the ...
Read More »14 workers aboard ExxonMobil-hired drillship offshore Guyana have COVID
Despite a rigid screening and isolation system, 14 workers aboard the ExxonMobil-contracted drillship, Noble Tom Madden, have contracted the potentially deadly coronavirus. ExxonMobil says 11 remain in isolation aboard the vessel and three have been transferred to appropriate isolation facilities onshore under the care and custody of their employer. “These individuals have been appropriately isolated to limit the spread of ...
Read More »BREAKING: Guyana cops CAPE, CSEC Caribbean top spot; both students from Queen’s College
Guyana has topped the Caribbean for both the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE) and the Caribbean Secondary Education (CSEC), with the students coming from Queen’s College, well-placed sources said Friday. They are Bhedesh Persaud for CSEC and Zane Ramotar for CAPE, the sources have corroborated. The Ministry of Education later confirmed on its Facebook page, saying that “Guyana has done ...
Read More »No Grades 2, 4,9 and Placement Exams this year
Guyana’s Chief Education Officer, Marcel Hutson has announced that the National Grades two, Four and Nine and Placement Examinations would not be written this year “due to the adverse effects of the COVID-19, pandemic on the education sector.” “We recognise the hardships our students would have been experiencing in terms of their readiness and preparedness for these examinations and we ...
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