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In the face of a blunt denial that a television news anchor for Guyana’s state-owned National Communications Network (NCN)  was taken off the set because she is pregnant, she has insisted that she was ordered to stop reading the news but later told that she could continue until she proceeds on maternity leave. “Management wishes to make it publicly known ...

Britain’s Prince Harry is scheduled to visit Guyana before Christmas as part of a tour to several Caribbean countries on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II, Kensington Palace announced. This visit will be the first by a member of the Royal Family since 2004. With autumn lasting from September 22 to December 20, 2016, Britain announced that Prince Harry’s visit will ...

Reproduced from New York Daily News At least four people were shot, two fatally, as gunshots erupted at the bustling J’Ouvert celebration in Brooklyn despite NYPD doubling their parade patrols. The annual West Indian heritage celebration was marred by deadly violence just before 4 a.m. when cops rushed to eastern Prospect Park following reports that four people had been shot ...

Britain has slashed the amount of money it will provide to a revised Security Sector Reform Programme  (SSRP) to Guyana because London’s priority has shifted from security to infrastructure, seven years after it scrapped the original £3 million (US$4.9 million) project due to unresolved concerns by the then People’s Progressive Party Civic-led administration. Britain’s High Commissioner to Guyana, Greg Quinn ...

A man returned home Sunday afternoon and found his 48-year  old mother battered and stabbed to death in her house at Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara. Dead is Anita Mohan, an itinerant vendor. Imtiaz Khan said his cousin, who also lived at the house, at 315 Fifth Street, Cummings Lodge, was held by police. Khan, who is a mason and ...

Police Commissioner (acting), David Ramnarine on Saturday threatened to expel traffic and anti-crime patrol members from the force who solicit money from the public or stop civilians even if no offence has been committed. “There are certain matters once you are charged criminally or departmentally or what we are not going to waste taxpayers’ money to interdict you and put ...

A well-known Essequibo Coast barber was shot and robbed outside his home early Saturday morning and several hours later two suspects were caught while attempting to leave the region, police said.  Divisional Commander Kevin Adonis said Troy ‎’Akee’ Hercules was shot in his leg outside his home at Henrietta and has been admitted to the Suddie Hospital for the bullet ...

The United States’ Department of Transportation (DoT) has been paying keen attention to Dynamic International Airways’ operations, due to consumer complaints and its provision of insufficient information to regulatory authorities. “We stay the effectiveness of the certificates of public convenience and necessity to engage in interstate and foreign scheduled air transportation of persons, property, and mail reissued to Dynamic International Airways, ...

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) on Friday rejected outright government’s offer of a 1 percent to 10 percent wage and salary increase for this year and decided to begin the grievance procedure that could lead to arbitration, multiple sources said. The sources told Demerara Waves Online News that the GPSU’s General Secretary would as early as next Monday pen ...

The United States on Friday announced that it would be funding a three-year programme at a cost of US$946,000 aimed at improving the quality of policing, prosecution and delivery of justice by the court system over the next three years. “The main objective of this programme will be to increase effective criminal investigation in Guyana that leads to strong prosecutions ...