City Councillors have been granted between $4.8M to $5M to complete development projects within communities across Georgetown. The total sum of $57,688,022 is part of the $200M subvention allocated to City Hall in the 2018 Budget. At a press conference on Friday afternoon, Town Clerk Royston King said that the projects which will include the…
Police on Thursday morning conducted a drug eradication operation at Coomacka Mines, Upper Demerara River where they destroyed an acre of marijuana cultivation with about 1,500 cannabis plants measuring 2-6 feet in height with an estimated weight of about 300 kgs. A police statement noted that ranks also destroyed a nursery with about 300 seedlings,…
Four months after a Diamond Housing Scheme Pastor was charged with the rape of one of his congregation members, he was today committed to stand before a jury in the High Court. City Magistrate Leron Daly today ruled that she has found enough evidence to commit the man to stand trial. The self-proclaimed Bishop, Joseph…
Police Commissioner (ag), David Ramnarine believes a Springlands Magistrate has “an axe to grind” with investigators who are involved in the piracy attack case. He was at the time responding to comments made by Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh towards investigators of the Guyana Police Force’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) today, during the appearance of two suspects…
Over 17,000 Cubans and 5000 Haitians who entered Guyana between 2013 and April 2018 are unaccounted for, according to an official correspondence from Minister of Citizenship Winston Felix. The revelation has prompted the Parliamentary Opposition to call on the Government to launch a serious investigation into the possibility of human trafficking. Felix wrote the Parliamentary…
By Akeem Greene Bolivia, the South American nation which hosted the 11th edition of the South America Games from May 26 to June 8 in the city of Cochabamba, is roughly 8,398 feet above sea level. For Guyanese athletes who reside on the coastal plain, which is approximately six feet below sea level, Bolivia became a gigantic…
The Commissioners at the Guyana Elections Commission who were nominated for that position by the People’s Progressive Party called an “emergency” press conference this afternoon to register their disappointment with the decision by the Elections Commission to not have former Deputy Chief Elections Officer, Vishnu Persaud, return to that post. The Commission this afternoon voted…
Ambassador George Talbot recently presented his Letters of Credence to President Sebastián Piñera of the Republic of Chile and was accredited as Ambassador of Guyana to Chile. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement said Guyana and Chile established diplomatic relations on July 22, 1971, and bilateral relations between the two countries have increased…
The Opposition People’s Progressive Party, through its Executive Secretary Zulficar Mustapha, has filed an appeal of the Chief Justice’s ruling in that case against the appointment of a GECOM Chairman. Last Friday, the acting Chief Justice dismissed the PPP’s application to challenge the appointment of the GECOM Chairman. In that ruling, the Chief Justice stated…
Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel dominated the Canadian Grand Prix to retake the championship lead as Lewis Hamilton could finish only fifth for Mercedes. Vettel converted pole position into a lead at the first corner and was never headed as he kept Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas at arm’s length throughout the race. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen took third…
