President David Granger has issued proclamations for the dissolution of Parliament and the Regional Councils on Monday as the country gets ready to head to the polls on the 2nd March 2020. The Proclamations were issued after the President met with the Chairman and all of the Commissioners of the Guyana Elections Commission today. In…
The lifeless bodies of an overseas-based Guyanese and another man were found today at a defunct No.63 beach hotel on the Corentyne. Dead is Vivekanand Brijbassi, 68, a Canadian-based Guyanese who arrived on these shores on December 19th to renovate the property. The identity of the the other man is being ascertained.One of the men’s
New details have emerged into the gruesome murder of two men at the famous #63 beach on the Corentyne Coast; Police Friday discovered the badly decomposed bodies in a building. Police have revealed that Canada-based Guyanese, Vivekanand Narpatty, was found dead with two toes from his left foot severed; one was seen next to his…
Police investigators in different parts of the country found themselves breaking Christmas day investigating three murders that occurred within 24 hours. Two of the murders occurred on Christmas eve while the third took place early on Christmas morning. At around 10 pm on Tuesday night at Four Miles, Port Kaituma, a 19-year-old gold miner was…
The Guyana Water Inc (GWI) has granted water concessions to the country’s 17 indigent homes and 22 orphanages. According to a release from the GWI, during a meeting with representatives from the organisations on Christmas Eve, Managing Director of GWI Dr. Richard Van West-Charles said they will enjoy a 50 per cent rebate on every
The Civil Defence Commission sprang into action on Christmas day after a flash flood left homes in Endeavour on the island of Legaun (Region Three) inundated after a koker door gave way. The residents commended the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) for their quick response in providing relief to affected households. The commission dispatched a team…
Police investigators were called to the scene of yet another murder this morning. 32-year-old labourer Israel McKenzie was found stabbed to death this morning at Second Street, La Penitence. McKenzie was reportedly in an intoxicated state walking home from an event when he was attacked by two men at around 3:30 this morning. The body…
A pensioner at Tabatinga, Lethem died on Christmas Day during a fire which gutted his home. Reports are that around 1500hrs on Christmas Day, Radie Johnny’s grandson went to visit him but observed the elderly man’s remains under his gutted home. Reports are that man lived with his son but it is unclear where the
Police are investigating the death of a pensioner whose burnt body was discovered on Christmas Day under his badly burnt house in Region Nine. According to information from the police, the discovery was made by the man’s grandson, 34-year-old Troy Johnny, a farmer of 134 Tabatinga, Lethem Central Rupununi. Johnny told Police that he went…
President David Granger as Leader of the APNU and Minister Khemraj Ramjattan as Leader of the AFC, today added their signatures to the revised Cummingsburg Accord, which is the agreement that formed the APNU+AFC coalition. The signing of the revised document was done away from the glitz, glamour and pageantry that welcomed the original signing…
