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The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) on Friday reported a hike in scamming reports from customers in the Mobile Money Department. In light of the increasing reports of scams, the telephone company’s Vice President of Customer Experience at GTT, Orson Ferguson says several measures have been taken to encourage customers to stay alert of fraudsters. He explained since the ...

Friday 31st May 2019 – St. John’s, Antigua. In a bid to shield its customers in Antigua & Barbuda from significant service disruption and a negative impact on coverage, Digicel on Thursday secured a court order against the Government of Antigua & Barbuda. The Court order prevents the Government from confiscating any of the 850 MHz spectrum which Digicel has ...

Three bandits were shot dead during a shootout at Lodge, Georgetown late Thursday night. The Guyana Police Force said two of the bandits have been identified as Shawn Brown and Junior Nurse; the other is yet to be identified. Three 9mm pistols and two cellular phones were found in close proximity of the crime scene, police added. The shooting stemned ...

Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday accused the governing coalition of stealing his People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) idea to offer free university education if it wins the next general elections. A day after Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo told Essequibo Coast residents that he and President David Granger were examining the possibility of scrapping tuition fees for attending the University ...

In the wake of concerns about how a gold miner, who had been held with 30 pounds of raw gold, eventually got a dealer’s licence, an independent review of the nine licencees shows that none of them benefited from favouritism by the Guyana Gold Board (GGB). “We are satisfied that none of the applicants appear to have been given special ...

Even as the Local Government Commission (LGC) prepares to decide the fate of several Georgetown City Council officers against whom disciplinary action had been recommended by an inquiry, the administration is yet to hand over records to allow the Auditor General to conduct an audit into the financial dealings. LGC Deputy Chairman, Andrew Garnett told Demerara Waves Online News that ...

A top administrative official of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) late Thursday afternoon disputed claims that there was a delay in the commencement of house-to-house registration due to procurement hiccups, and said that process is set to begin in another three weeks. The official explained that now that training of staff has been completed, an evaluation would be done before ...

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has pushed back its house-to-house registration exercise that was scheduled to begin this week, officials said Thursday. A senior official of the electoral management authority told Demerara Waves Online News that the delay was due to the procurement of materials not being finalised. Another source added, “all the elements did not flow in accordance with ...

Senior Counsel Rajendra Nath Poonai has sued the privately-owned Kaieteur News newspaper for GYD$45 million for defaming him in an article that he was convicted of fraud in Canada. Already, the High Court has granted an injunction restraining the National Media and Publishing Company, which publishes the Kaieteur News, its owner Glen Lall and Editor-in-Chief, Adam Harris from continuing to ...

The incumbent David Granger-led administration appeared increasingly poised to target, again, youths in its bid to be reelected at general elections likely to be held later this year. The campaign by the governing A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) coalition to target youths, Guyana’s single largest voting block, took aim at the education sector where the majority of ...