With the Guyana Elections Commission talking about being prepared to host Local Government Elections, Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton today said he does not see those elections happening with the current List of Electors, and current Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission, rt’d Justice Claudette Singh remaining in place. The Opposition has long complained that the…
On Thursday between 10:00hrs and 17:30hrs, police ranks carried out a raid exercise in Guyhoc, Plum Park and surrounding areas in Georgetown. During the raid, a 25-year-old vendor of South Sophia was searched and several cell phones suspected to be stolen were found. He was arrested and escorted to the Turkeyen Police Station pending investigations.…
The Opposition APNU+AFC coalition today said it remains fully committed to the full realization of Indigenous rights as embodied in international conventions and in the Constitution of Guyana. The message from the party came as Guyana joined the rest of the world in observing International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. In keeping with this…
Ranks of the Customs Anti Narcotic Unit (CANU) arrested five persons on Thursday including a known drug trafficker, 43-year-old Andre Clarke, and Police Sergeant, 33-year-old Dion Bascom. According to a statement from CANU, its ranks conducted an operation at a Norton Street, Georgetown residence where Clarke lives A search of the premises led to the…
A sophia woman was stabbed to death last evening during an argument close to her B field, Sophia home. The dead woman has been identified as Vanessa Anderson. Two sisters who live near to the woman in the same Sophia community have since been arrested for the murder. According to reports, the woman, Vanessa Anderson…
POLICE have made a pronouncement on the circumstances surrounding the death of Romeo “Fine Boy” Randolph, a 35-year-old farmer and speed boat operator, whose body was found on Sunday in the Essequibo River. The law enforcement agency, on Monday, said the farmer’s death was caused by “suffocation compounded by blunt trauma to the head” based…
CHIEF Justice (ag.) Roxane George will deliver her ruling in the opposition, APNU+AFC’s legal challenges to the appointment of Patrick Findlay as Police Service Commission (PSC) Chairman, as well as the appointment of members of the Integrity Commission. During a virtual hearing on Monday, the Chief Justice concluded by hearing oral submissions from Attorney-General and…
The PPP/C Administration’s hallmark Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) 2030 outlines a robust mechanism for the mobilisation of financing that will be accrued from the country’s forest resources. Senior Minister in the Office of the President with responsibility for Finance, Dr. Ashni Singh highlighted the strengths of the strategy as he moved the LCDS 2030…
THE search is on for a suspect who allegedly stabbed his wife, fatally, on Monday morning at Number 47 Village, in Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne). The suspect, Suraj Ganpat of Cumberland, East Canje, reportedly committed the act against the now deceased woman, Cindy Ramchandar, 24, and then fled the scene in a silver-grey motorcar with…
All secondary school students in Guyana could have job-ready, technical and vocational skills and certification by the time they complete their studies as the Ministry of Education is pushing both academic and economic ‘viability’. This is according to Chief Education Officer Dr. Marcel Hutson, who said that the infusion of more technical and vocational training…
