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Georgetown’s City Council waived GY$19 million in interest rates to rake in much needed GY$7 million in rates and taxes, the same day that municipal workers picketed City Hall to vent their frustration at repeated late payment of salaries. Deputy Mayor, Lionel Jaikarran announced that he collected the GY$7,511,130 cheque from the lawyer for an unidentified business, hoping that funds ...

Homicide detectives are expected to lay charges in the coming days for the murder of the Richard Ishmael Secondary School teacher who died three days after she was found in an unconscious condition on a city roadway. Kescia Branche, 22, of Cummings Lodge, Greater Georgetown succumbed to severe head and other injuries on November 7, 2017, three days after she ...

Two unmasked gunmen on Sunday evening relieved a West Berbice money changer of GY$1.2M and one Blu cellphone. A police source close to the investigation revealed that cops discovered an abandoned car matching the description given. However no arrests have been made so far. Thirty-eight year-old Jaipaul Harrilal of Lot 13 ‘B’ Cotton Tree Old Road told Demerara Waves Online ...

  “I am happy and thankful that I won the million dollar”, said David Sital,  a cattle farmer, butcher and vendor  at the Mon Repos Market, after he emerged the winner of the GTT  Million Dollar Smile promotion held at Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara Friday evening, November 11. The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) said in a press ...

President David Granger has pledged to work through the Guyana Defence Board, which he chairs, and with the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), the Guyana Veterans’ Legion (GVL) and civil society to ensure that the recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry that was launched to investigate the living conditions of veterans, are effectively reviewed and implemented. The Head of State made ...

A Canada-based Guyanese high-tech cyber-security expert has urged Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) to drop reactive strategies to cyber threats – including chasing alerts — and instead be more proactive if they want to stay ahead of attackers. “The reactive strategy has failed,” Nik Alleyne, senior manager of cyber security at Forsythe Solutions Group, said Wednesday at the International Cyber Security and Intelligence ...

Guyana and Brazil will Thursday begin a four-day exercise to remark the borders between the two neighbouring South American countries, government here announced late Saturday night. “The team will look at the marks, repair and update them for posterity. The integrity of one’s country is paramount and to ensure that our integrity is assured, one of the things that we ...

Government wants the High Court to dismiss a case by the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) aimed at quashing the appointment of Retired Justice James Patterson as Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). Among the grounds cited by Solicitor General, Kim Kyte is that President David Granger was not obliged to accept one of Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo’s 18 ...

Doctors from the Guyana Medical Mission, during their annual one- week stay in Guyana, successfully completed 51 surgeries at the New Amsterdam Hospital while providing technical support to the local doctors and nurses present at the health Institution. This information was reported to members of the media at the Hospital’s Boardroom on Friday, November 10 as the medical mission’s annual ...

Political commentator, Ramon Gaskin has announced that he is considering forming a labour-oriented political party aimed at radically tackling the basic needs of people and ensure that Guyana gets a fair share of foreign investments especially in the natural resources sector. “We believe that the new economy and the new model has to be predicated on satisfying needs of people. ...