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Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon on Monday said he would be tabling a question in the National Assembly about the impending visit of United States (US) Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo. Opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) parliamentarian Raphael Trotman warned against the “pomp” of a certain foreign signatory leaving Guyana in a “hot mess.” Mr. Harmon said ...

Police say two Brazilians and a Venezuelan were late Sunday arrested after they landed aboard a plane on the Issano Airstrip in Middle Mazaruni. Nothing illegal was found aboard the Cessna 206 bearing registration marking, PR-FMJ. Those arrested after the red and white plane landed at about 10:20 PM were a 38 year old pilot, from Boa Vista Brazilian; a ...

A Guyanese man died in a road accident in Antigua when the speeding vehicle he lost control of the speeding vehicle and flipped several times on a newly-constructed road, authorities said. He has been identified as Vijai Persaud, an employee of Meridian Construction company. Antigua Newsroom reports that at about 11:55 Saturday night, the Guyanese was driving a vehicle at ...

The Guyana Police Force on Sunday remained virtually tight-lipped for a fourth straight day on the status of investigations into the several killings on the West Coast Berbice over the past week. Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn also could not provide any useful information, instead merely saying that the police were continuing their investigations and he would prefer not to ...

A United States (US) military transport aircraft arrived Sunday in preparation for Secretary of State, Michael Pompeo’s visit to Guyana later this week, according to well-placed sources. The C-17 US Air Force military transport plane landed at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) at about 5:30 PM bringing with it an advance party of more than two dozen people as ...

Hours before the mutilated bodies of the two slain teenagers were began the long journey from Georgetown to West Coast Berbice for burial, fresh calls were issued for Guyana’s race relations problem to put on the national agenda of political leaders and other stakeholders. Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes, Chairman of the International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly – Guyana ...

Chairman of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Volda Lawrence and Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon on Sunday issued separate calls for justice for the teenage Henry cousins whose chopped bodies were found aback West Coast Berbice one week ago. But the two PNCR Executive members appeared to differ on the approach, with Ms. Lawrence continuing to strike a more conciliatory ...

United States (US) Secretary of State, Michael Pompeo is expected to visit Guyana next week, Permanent Secretary of the Foreign Ministry Ambassador Audrey Jardine-Waddell confirmed Saturday. The details of the visit are not yet available. The visit is tentatively scheduled for September 17 to 18, 2020. Mr. Pompeo had in the past five months threatened to impose stiffer sanctions on ...

In the wake of an eruption of racially motivated physical violence during protests against the killing and mutilation of two youths in the backlands of West Coast Berbice, President Irfaan Ali  on Friday said government has begun taking steps to crack down on hate speech Online. “The use of social media for the promotion of racial hate for political purpose ...

Attorney General Anil Nandlall said High Court Judge, Joann Barlow has ordered the confiscation of €24,530 that were earlier this year found in cans of paint shortly after entering Guyana from Suriname through the backtrack. “The Court eventually found that based on the manner of  concealment of the monies in paint cans, it could be inferred that the monies  came ...