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More than 100 persons in Region Six- East Berbice/ Corentyne- have been arrested for breaching the COVID-19 measures, as police in that Region prepare to intensify enforcement of the gazetted measures to combat the spread of the viral disease. Divisional Commander, Jairam Ramlakhan says  most of the 116 persons have been released on self-bail and a few of them have ...

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) on Saturday called on civil society to flood President Irfaan Ali with letters, appealing to him to get international experts to assist police in resolving the early September killing of the Henry cousins and Haresh Singh. While organisations are free to compose their messages, the GHRA suggested that religious, trade unions, corporate, professional and ...

The  Rotary Club of Garden City (Georgetown) Guyana – the first cause-based Rotary club- has been formed to help spruce up and maintain Georgetown and other areas of the country. It is named the Rotary Club of Garden City was launched on 10th November and it’s the 7th club to have been chartered in more than 10 years. “The Rotary ...

Three prisoners early Saturday morning escaped from the Lusignan Prison  by using a bed sheet as an improvised rope to scale the fence of that East Coast Demerara penitentiary, the Guyana Prison Service said. They are murder accused 48-year old Phillip Jhogroo of Lot B3 Goed Intent, Leguan, Essequibo River; 18 year old Mark Emmanuel of Grove Sea Dam squatting ...

A man and a the mother of a baby have been arrested for allegedly being in possession of suspected amphetamine, methamphetamine and marijuana. The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) says the suspected drugs were seized from a house at 804 ‘C’ Field, Sophia, Greater Georgetown yesterday. Those arrested are 33-year old Nyron Wilson and  a 19-year old mother. CANU says the ...

The Chief-of-Staff of the Guyana Defence Force , Brigadier Godfrey Bess has vowed that no foreign forces will again be allowed to invade this country’s seaspace and target the country’s oil exploration and production operations. Addressing the GDF’s 55th anniversary dinner, he was at the time referring to the eviction of oil exploration vessels from Guyana’s exclusive economic zone waters. ...

Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony has called on Guyanese not to socialise during the Christmas Season in order to reduce the spread of the coronavirus that has already killed more than 140 Guyanese. “We know that traditionally people tend to increase their socialisation during Christmas, people tend to  increase their drinking during Christmas, people want to have family and friends ...

Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce Oneidge Walrond on Friday insisted that she was constitutionally sworn in as a parliamentarian on September 1, although she had signed an oath renouncing her American citizenship on September 4, 2020. “I am convinced that I have full legal right to sit in the National Assembly and that I have done nothing illegal and ...

Minister of Governance, Gail Teixeira on Thursday informed the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) that Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs, Sherie Samantha Fedee was removed on the instruction of President Irfaan Ali. The minister said  Ms. Fedee  would be offered a lateral position at the same terms and conditions. when the Ministry of the Public Service finds ...

The University of Guyana Workers Union (UGWU) is among those heaping criticism on the decision by the government to award 20,000 scholarships over the next four years through the University of the West Indies (UWI). News of this decision came yesterday in a UWI news release, but so far the Guyana government has not denied that such a plan is ...