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The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) is this weekend expected to decide when Congress- the highest decision making body- would be held, party General Secretary, Clement Rohee said Tuesday. He said the congress is scheduled to be held this year. Rohee said once a decision is taken on Saturday, June 4, 2016, the agenda items would be formulated as part ...

Even as the General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC), Clement Rohee prepares to summon one of his party’s parliamentarians, Nigel Dharamlall, to discuss an allegation that he threatened to shoot an official of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), his lawyer issued a denial. “My client unequivocally denies any involvement in any criminal act,” said Attorney-at-Law, Glenn Hanoman ...

The Guyana Defence Force and Guyana Geology and Mines Commission  (GGMC) Monday night confirmed that mines officers from the regulatory authority earlier in the day came under fire most likely from Venezuelan soldiers in the Eteringbang area. Commissioner of the GGMC, Newell Dennison said three officers were in a boat on routine inspections when shots were fired across the bow ...

A parliamentarian for the main opposition People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) has been accused of threatening to shoot an official of the Inter- American Development (IDB) last week. Police said the incident occurred at Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara. The parliamentarian, Nigel Dharamlall,  has since been questioned by police, but investigators have declined to say whether he brandished or pulled ...

In the latest exchange of words between Top Cop Seelal Persaud and Former Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee, the Minister is denying claims that he ducked applications for police ranks to do overseas training. At a press conference on Monday morning, Rohee laid the blame for officers not receiving training at the feet of the police force. In fact he ...

Despite rigorous efforts by stakeholders in the gold mining industry, another miner has been killed as a result of the cave in of a pit. Police said that at about 6 PM on Sunday, May 29, 2016, Ramal Williams was killed while working in a mining pit at Konawaruk Backdam, Potaro “when it caved and he was trapped beneath.” Williams, ...

As President David Granger prepares to pardon several more persons convicted for non-lethal offences, the opposition People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) wants government to answer in the National Assembly several key questions about the convicts’ identities and process of pardoning. Shadow Attorney General, Anil Nandlall wants Public Security Minister, Khemraj Ramjattan to tell the House the names of convicts, dates ...

President David Granger has suggested that anti-corruption critics of his government should turn their attention to the private sector, individuals and other organisations where the scourge is more rampant. “It is my view that corruption in Guyana is most widespread outside of government. The crimes of tax evasion, contraband smuggling, narcotics trafficking, trafficking in persons, money laundering- all contribute to ...

More than 30 persons were early Sunday morning injured at the Providence Cricket Stadium when pandemonium broke out during a concert there, authorities said. Most of them were either treated and sent away or eventually went to other hospitals in the capital, Georgetown, for further treatment to minor cuts, lacerations and  bruises. At least five of them up to 8 ...

One Guyanese fisherman has died and three others have been reported missing after pirates attacked them while they were in the Lower Shell Area, Nickerie, Suriname,  the Guyana Police Force said Saturday. Five suspects have since been arrested in a boat at Number 65 Village, Corentyne. “During this morning, acting on information received, the police went to the No.65 Village ...