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Minister of State, Joseph Harmon has brushed aside criticisms about the integrity of the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) , James Patterson because his Curriculum Vitae (CV) appeared to have conveyed the impression that he had been the substantive rather than the acting Chief Justice of Grenada. “This question about whether you are acting and you can say ...

Several village ouncillors in Region Nine and residents of a number of scattered Rupununi villages allegedly know and support illegal activities related to the construction and maintenance illegal airstrips as well as the illegal landing of planes, according to a number of police intelligence reports dispatched to the Police Commissioner. The reports are part of supporting documents in a report ...

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo has labelled heckling of President David Granger by placard-bearing parliamentarians of the opposition People’s Progressive Party a brand of terrorism and hooliganism, but Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo has justified the protest action. “I think he [President David Granger] battled on today as a real soldier inspite of an unusual and unprecedented outburst of political hooliganism in ...

The New Amsterdam Mayor and Town Council  and the Universal Church of God are at odds over the municipality’s decision to block a branch of the church in the town from using a former night club in the commercial zone as a place of worship. The municipality has refuted statements made by a Pastor attached to the New Amsterdam arm ...

Opposition People’s Progressive Party members of parliament did not walk out of the House as President David Granger was addressing the Parliament at the end its two month recess, but instead held up placards and shouted slogans at times drowning out the voice of the Guyanese leader. They chanted slogans such as “free and fair elections”, “no more rigging” and ...

Government has embarked on a countrywide fan-out exercise in response to a barrage of criticisms about President David Granger’s unilateral appointment of a Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), and dismissed suggestions that the move was aimed at rigging the next general elections. Dominated by supporters and activists of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)- the major party in ...

Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo on Wednesday welcomed the decision by the Alliance For Change- Canada Chapter to withdraw from their political party, but the Chairman of that grouping Tameshwar Lilmohan said his grouping has not yet made up its mind about endorsing any other political grouping. “They took a principled position and I saw the letter from that Chapter about ...

Hours after a Trinidadian man, who allegedly faked his kidnapping in return for a US$700,000 ransom was remanded to a Guyana prison,  police here issued a wanted bulletin for two other Trinidadians believed to be linked to the scheme. They are 40-year old Anil Antonio Mahabir and 42-year old Vejhy Ramdass   who are wanted for questioning in relation to conspiracy ...

Virtually all unionised workers at the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) have withdrawn from the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU), a move that the union’s president has stated would not be in keeping with the rules. GGMC workers representative, Gregory Gaspar said up to September when the letter was dispatched to the union, 278 of the 389 unionised workers ...

Just over one year after two brothers were killed in an East Bank Demerara road accident, a truck driver was Tuesday charged with causing death by dangerous driving. Twenty-seven year old Gansham Das of 2233 Tuschen Housing Scheme appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ court before Chief Magistrate Ann Mclennan for causing the death of 23 year old Jonnel Armstrong, and 21-year ...