A 72-year-old pensioner who was badly beaten with a mop stick in the wee hours of Sunday at his Pump Road, Strathspey, East Coast Demerara home succumbed to his injuries just after midnight Monday at the Georgetown Public Hospital. Dead is Deochand Ramsahoye. He was sleeping with his wife, Farida Ramsahoye in the upper flat…
On the same day that teachers across the country wore somber colours to protest attacks on teachers, the parents of a primary school student and the student’s teacher found themselves before the Court facing criminal charges over a physical confrontation between them that took place in the classroom. Appearing in Court this morning were St.…
The Guyana Chronicle is retracting a headline appearing in our newspaper today ‘ Toddler drowns while parents attend PPP rally’. We sincerely apologise for offending our readership and all other Guyanese in this sensitive political season. Our intention was never to politicise the tragic loss of life of the child.
Leader of the Opposition People’s Progressive Party, Bharrat Jagdeo at the weekend warned his supporters against entertaining the small political parties which are contesting the upcoming elections. Speaking at a rally at Anna Regina, Region Two on Saturday, Jagdeo said the small parties are seeking votes to coalesce with the APNU+AFC coalition. “All of these…
In a fiery speech on Friday night at a Public Meeting at Wismar, APNU+AFC Member and former Regional Chairman Sharma Solomon implored his fellow Lindeners to focus on moving forward and never to allow Guyana to return to PPP rule. “Forward Ever, Backward Never”, the crowd chanted as Solomon told them that “my message to…
…GECOM dismisses PPP claims that 6,000 house-to-house registrants non-existent …says: “Them not being home does not mean they do not exist By Svetlana Marshall WARNING that thousands of eligible Guyanese could be disenfranchised if they are unjustifiably removed from the Revised List of Electors, Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Justice (Ret’d) Claudette Singh
By Isanella Patoir The Liberty and Justice Party (LJP) launched its election campaign Saturday in the indigenous community where the idea for the party was birthed two years ago. It was also where the party’s presidential candidate, Lenox Shuman grew up and where he served as the community’s leader. A number of villagers attended the…
A 31-year-old miner was remanded to prison today for the trafficking of marijuana. Linden resident, Lennox Jackman appeared before Magsirate Sherdel Marcus-Issacs and denied the charge that he had 658 grams of marijuana in his possession on the 16th of January for the purpose of trafficking. The man was nabbed by the Police along the…
–first one million barrels of crude from Stabroek Block leaves Guyana this weekend THE Yannis P, a Marshall Islands-registered crude oil tanker will this weekend lift the first one million barrels of crude from the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana, according to Liam Mallon, President of Exxon Mobil upstream oil and gas. He made this disclosure
The Liberty and Justice Party (LJP), A New and United Guyana (ANUG) and The New Movement (TNM) are aiming to change the political culture in Guyana. The three small parties took a historic step by signing an agreement to combine their lists and votes at the March 2 general and regional elections. At a joint…
