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A boat captain is missing and two fishermen, who were ordered to jump overboard during an alleged attack by pirates, swam to safety, police said. Feared dead is 44-year old Mahadeo “Chico” Ramdyal of Kilcoy/Chesney Squatting Area, Corentyne. Investigators fear that Ramdyal drowned as one of the attackers lashed him to his head after he jumped overboard. “The crew members alone managed ...

President David Granger said he saw no need to ask Attorney General, Basil Williams to apologise to High Court Judge, Frank Holder because his behaviour in the judge’s court was not contemptuous. “Under the circumstances, I cannot see that there was anything which could have warranted his being cited for contempt of court. As I said, his behaviour was not ...

Chief Justice, Roxanne George-Wiltshire and High Court Judge, Dawn Gregory are to be sworn in Wednesday as Court of Appeal Judges, according to well-placed sources. They are due to take the Oaths of Office before President David Granger at his official residence, State House. This will pave the way for the Court of Appeal to resume sittings since the retirement ...

  Guyanese farmers may soon be able to make better decisions if all goes well with a Participatory Integrated Climate Services of Agriculture (PICSA). A workshop is currently being facilitated by the Ministry of Agriculture’s Hydro-meteorological Department, with funding from the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Programme for Building Regional Climate Capacity in the Caribbean Programme (BRCCC Programme). The Ministry ...

Two men were Tuesday arraigned for allegedly bribing a constable at the Brickdam Police Station to release one of their sons from custody after he was accused of being in illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition. Kamendra Raghubeer of 171 ‘C’ Field, Sophia and 24-year old Anil Persaud of Ramsingh Street, Sophia pleaded not guilty and were released on ...

The United States (US) oil giant, ExxonMobil, is yet to make its Final Investment Decision (FID) to engage in commercial production offshore Guyana because local regulatory agencies are still reviewing applications, officials said Tuesday. They are the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) being reviewed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the granting of a production license by the Guyana Geology and ...

A Stabroek Market vendor was was Tuesday morning arraigned and remanded on a charge of trafficking in narcotics. Travis Alexander of 109 D’Andrade Street,Newtown, Georgetown appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates Court before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan. The charge against the 26-year old man is that on May 12 at Stabroek Market he had 23 grammes of marijuana for the purpose ...

The Guyana Postal and Telecommunications Workers Union (GPTWU) has written to President David Granger seeking his intervention in the payment of GYD$600 million in outstanding gratuities to retirees of the country’s oldest telecommunications company. Union President, Terrence Shepherd told Demerara Waves that a letter was dispatched to the Guyanese leader after the matter was raised with him during his visit ...

Law enforcement agents on Monday seized a video recording device and arrested one of the men wanted in connection with the discovery of GYD$500 million worth of cocaine that anti-drug agents unearthed from a consignment of dressed wood bound for the United States (US). “CANU has a Digital Video Recording device retrieved from Nazim Gafoor at Vreed-en-Hoop West Bank Demerara and ...

Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Private Shaquille Grant appeared in the Sparendaam Magistrates Court before Magistrate Zamillia Ally-Seepaul on a charge of murder. The charge read that on May 5 at ‘C’ Field Sophia he murdered Andre Alexander in the course of the furtherance of a robbery. The 20 year old of 345 Section ‘B’ Turkeyen was not required to plea ...