…to cover 28 villages in massive ministerial outreach …local leaders give APNU+AFC Gov’t thumbs up TODAY, the government will roll out a massive ministerial outreach in Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo) with some 19 ministers expected to be spread across 28 villages within a three-day period. In those villages, government has pumped close to one

An inmate of the Camp Street Prison was on Friday accused of impersonating Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence and swindling over $2.1M in phone credit from a businessman. Mohammed Ali, who is currently serving a sentence for similar charges, appeared before City Magistrate Leron Daly at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with obtaining money…

NEW YORK- The NYPD has identified a 17-year-old boy who was stabbed to death Wednesday night during an argument in his Bronx neighborhood. The young man Pernell “Blizzy” Pompey, is originally from Guyana. According to the NYPD, he had gotten into an argument with a trio of attackers in the vicinity of East 193rd Street…

…GRA says billions of dollars recouped, PPP years lawless COMMISSIONER-GENERAL of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), Godfrey Statia, said that billions of dollars in revenues have been recouped from seizures of illegal fuel over the past three years, as the GRA continues to dent the ‘Black Market’ with support from its sister agencies. While combating

The Guyana Bar Association, which represents the country’s lawyers, have issued a call for the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to be prepared to deliver general elections within the constitutional deadline. With the passage of the No Confidence motion on December 21, new elections were dictated in 90 days, are due by March 19. In a…

39-year-old, Kwame Bourne, who three years ago killed his 71-year-old father, Rickford Bourne, was sentenced to twenty years in jail today after entering a guilty plea to the unlawful killing charge. Bourne appeared before Justice Navindra Singh and stated that he would like to become a better man and admitted to the unlawful killing charge.…

…PSC chairman tells Carter Centre reps, civil society …calls on citizens to act maturely, discourage unlawful behaviour CHAIRMAN of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) Desmond Sears, during a meeting between the Carter Center and the Civil Society Forum, called for the sanitisation of the current voters’ list to remove the names of deceased persons and

Thirty-one-year-old Unique Angelica Hope was sentenced to six months imprisonment and fined $40,000 by Magistrate Faith McGusty after she pleaded guilty to making a false declaration in order to obtain a Guyanese passport. Hope of Thomas Street, Kitty, Georgetown, admitted that on January 17, 2018, at the Central Immigration and Passport Office, Georgetown, for the…

The 51-year-old furniture maker, who was arrested and charged last year following a large drug bust, has been sentenced to five years in jail. The man, Azim Baksh, was today found guilty of being in possession of more than 200 pounds of cocaine and over 100 pounds of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking. In…

…AG files applications to stay CJ’s judgement on confidence motion …also seeking conservatory order to preserve status quo of Cabinet IN another legal bid to reel back the effects of the December 21 Vote of No-Confidence against the government, Attorney General Basil Williams applied to the Court of Appeal for an interim stay to halt