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Under intense pressure, including a protest outside National Communications Network (NCN), the state broadcaster on Tuesday apologised to a news anchor for taking her off air because she is pregnant. While NCN’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Lennox Cornette insisted in a meeting with the Guyana Press Association (GPA) that Natasha Smith was not pulled off the air because she is ...

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) on Tuesday backed the Guyana Association of Bankers (GAB) in calling on government’s investigation agencies to ensure that confidential information about customers’ accounts are not disclosed to anyone else including the media. “The agencies, however, which receive this information, are similarly bound by the confidentiality rules as are the banks and must ensure that these ...

The Ministry of Natural Resources has announced Government’s intention to establish an onshore oil and gas facility in Guyana with a view to fully optimising opportunities for the country in the area of petroleum exploration and production. “The Ministry of Natural Resources, working in conjunction with the Ministries of Public Infrastructure and Business, believes that this facility is a critically ...

Residents on Leguan were up to late Monday trying to pick up the pieces after a freak storm damaged several houses and uprooted trees in the south-eastern side of that Essequibo Island. Several residents confirmed that the storm blew off the roofs of at least five houses and damaged a mandir’s roof at Blenheim on Sunday afternoon. There were no ...

Police late Monday night said a man has confessed to the beating and stabbing to death of a woman at their Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara residence and they are hunting another suspect. “A suspect has confessed to the crime and has given vital information of an accomplice, who investigators are making diligent efforts to apprehend,” police said in a ...

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 ...