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A man, who was previously convicted for physically abusing his wife, allegedly committed suicide on Monday in a cell at the Lethem Police Station where he was being held for a similar accusation after a neighbour called in police, the Guyana Police Force said. Dead is 37-year-old Carl Benedict, a driver who resided at St Ignatius Village, Rupununi, Region Nine ...

by Peter Richards BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, May 6, CMC – St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves says “unsuccessful attempts” had been made to impugn the character of the former president of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Dr. Hyginus “Gene “ Leon, whom he described as “a distinguished son of our Caribbean civilisation from St. Lucia”. Last ...

Longtime People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) member, Amna Ally on Monday appeared to be recovering from serious heart and kidney complications, well-placed sources said. Ms Ally, a former PNCR General Secretary who was recently embroiled in a public spat over her disappointment with party leader Aubrey Norton’s performance, has been hospitalised for the past two weeks. Sources said Ms Ally ...

General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo on Sunday said Marxism-Leninism and socialism were removed from that political organisation’s constitution because the Cold War had ended, ideologies mean little to party supporters and the time had come to bring the constitution in line with international economic realities. Describing the erasure of those ideological and theoretical references as ...

The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) is Sunday expected to approve a motion, sponsored by Dr Irfaan Ali’s party group at Leonora, to remove all references to Marxism-Leninism and socialism from that party’s constitution. When contacted on Saturday, Dr Ali told Demerara Waves Online News that, “The Leonora group and all other resolutions will be considered at the appropriate time ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Saturday condemned the governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP) for placing its party flag inside and outside the government-owned building that is also being used to hold sittings of the National Assembly, but a top party official vowed that nothing would stop that. Mr Norton highlighted that the Laws of Guyana explicitly prohibit the flying of ...

General Secretary of Guyana’s governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo on Saturday reiterated that there could be no power-sharing unless the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led opposition sticks to several ground rules. “You have to have willing partners and there must be some attributes to those partners; trustworthiness is a key one,” Mr Jagdeo told delegates and observers at ...

Guyana has appointed ambassadors to three of the world’s major countries—Brazil, Switzerland and the European Union (EU)—ending years of absence of top diplomatic representation there. They are Professor Compton Bourne who has been tipped to be appointed as Ambassador to Brazil; Dr Leslie Ramsammy as Ambassador to Switzerland and Mr Sasenarine Singh as Ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium. The ...

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Aubrey Norton on Thursday backed calls by two United States-based anti-government activists to boycott businesses in New York and Guyana whose owners support the People’s Progressive Party Civic administration. “If it necessitates bringing it to local businesses, I see no problem,” he told a news conference, adding that the Irfaan Ali-led government ...

Representatives of ExxonMobil Guyana and its customs brokerage company, RAMPS Logistics are now set to appear in the Georgetown Magistrates Court for allegedly falsifying customs declaration to the amount of US$12.1 billion for imports of oil well equipment and other supplies. In the name of Guyana Revenue Authority’s (GRA) Commissioner-General, Godfrey Statia, ExxonMobil has been charged with having caused to ...