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Well-known Guyanese author, Churaumanie Bissundyal died on Tuesday in New York, relatives said. He was 68 years old. Sources said Bissundyal died at  about 3:30 PM at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York where he had gone for heart surgery. While in Guyana, he worked at the Mirror newspaper, a publication closely aligned to the main opposition People’s Progressive ...

Fly Jamaica says Wednesday’s flight to and from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport has been cancelled due to a snow storm. “Our non-stop flight on Wednesday (Georgetown to New York’s John F. Kennedy (JFK) International Airport is cancelled and delayed until Thursday,” a senior airline official. The airline official said about 400 passengers will be affected. According to ...

The pontoons on which the Berbice River Bridge floats are deteriorating because they have not been serviced or replaced in the past six years, prominent civil engineer, Bert Carter said. “You can  expect some amount of deterioration,” he said when asked what could be the condition of the pontoons in the absence a visual inspection. Fearing that that bridge might ...

Guyana’s President, David Granger on Monday said waterways running through a number of countries of the Guiana Shield must be properly managed as part of a security mechanism, and that rivers must not be polluted. He was at the time addressing the 8th World Water Forum in Brasilia, Brazil “Rivers are important for the security of states. Half of the ...

Guyana will for the first time host the 2018 International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) Air Transport Conference; a significant responsibility it has earned following the improvement in its compliance with ICAO. The five-day conference, which will be held in November later this year, was officially launched today at the Umana Yana, Kingston Georgetown. Director General of the Guyana Civil Aviation ...

Working People’s Alliance (WPA) executive member, Professor David Hinds, who was recently sacked by the state-owned and government-controlled Guyana Chronicle newspaper on Monday objected strongly to People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) General Secretary, Amna Ally calling the spat over freedom of expression a “little issue” “First, the statement betrays a cavalier attitude to a pivotal aspect of good governance—government’s respect ...

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) on Monday- March 19, 2018- began dismantling a fence which it said was found to be encroaching on its reserve near the Lama Canal. Only the first of the two-layered zinc fence was removed. The utility company said in a statement that the fence was encroaching on 66 feet of the company’s reserve near the  Canal ...

A major fire was Monday afternoon averted in the Water Street, Kingston compound of the Guyana Power and Light Inc. as a result of quick action by staff of Power Producers and Distributors Inc; backed up by support from the Guyana Fire Service, officials said. Fire fighters were investigating that the fire started when a man was welding a truck. ...

General Secretary of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Amna Ally on Monday shrugged off suggestions by sections of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) that it should leave her party’s dominated A Partnership for National Unity (APNU). “We don’t have any deteriorating relations,” she told Demerara Waves Online News. She said “this little issue” concerning the discontinuation of columns by ...

Guyana’s Police Commissioner, David Ramnaraine on Monday justified the killing of three suspected bandits on the Georgetown seawall road although only two of them were armed and one gun was recovered. “The specific details can always be debated but at the end of the day the evidence is there that they were part of a criminal enterprise so whatever specific ...