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Friday, May 17, 2024

IAC sets up hotline to support aggrieved Indo-Guyanese

- The Indian Arrival Committee (IAC) says it has been receiving reports of threats and verbal abuse meted out to some members of...

Residents take up land, houses in East Coast & East Bank Demerara

By Tracey Khan - Drakes - Some Guyanese across the country have started a new trend of illegally squatting on lands that have been...

Election disturbances: “Business community very nervous” – PSC Chairman

By Jomo Paul – After a full 24 hours of several reports of disturbances across the country and a major unrest in South Sophia...

PSC disappointed at elections unrest, appeals for calm

- The Private Sector Commission (PSC) has expressed disappointment at the “sporadic outbreak of unrest and violence which followed a peaceful voting process...

GECOM to announce results at 11:00 hrs

- The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is scheduled to release preliminary results of the May 11 2015 General and Regional Elections at 11:00hrs...

Gas, kero shortage hits Berbice

- There is an apparent shortage of gasoline in the East Berbice Region at Guyana Oil Company (GuyOil) service stations. iNews spoke to...

ExxonMobil “cautious” about oil discovery

By Jomo Paul – President Donald Ramotar has revealed that US-based oil giant Exxon Mobil is proceeding cautiously with the recent discovery of Hydrocarbons...

13 children complete heart surgeries at GPHC; 6 others benefit from cardiac interventions

- Director of the Echocardiography Education Programme at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), Dr. Debra Isaac has reported that during the first...

“There is no plan to arrest persons” – Police respond to allegations of election...

– The Guyana Police Force (GPF) has responded to claims made by the APNU+AFC coalition that there are plans afoot to arrest persons...

Joint Services prepared for both preventative and preemptive actions

- The Private Sector Commission met on Wednesday May 06, with the Chairman of the Joint Services, Chief-of-Staff of the Guyana Defence Force,...

Recent Articles

Lusignan prison escapee spotted in Parika, GPS offers reward for his arrest

Days after Jose Awad escaped from the Lusignan Prison, East Coast Demerara, he was reportedly spotted in the vicinity of Parika, East Bank Essequibo. ...

QC teacher sent on leave after allegedly beating students

An investigation has been launched into the beating of some 10 students of Queens College. According to reports, the incident occurred around 10:15h on Thursday...

Essequibo shopkeeper busted with cocaine, ganja

A 47-year-old shopkeeper of Dartmouth Village Essequibo Coast, Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam) was on Wednesday taken into custody following the discovery of a quantity of...

Guyanese among 2 killed in Upstate NY head-on collision

A Guyanese woman was among two killed in a head-on crash in White Creek, upstate New York. Dead are 39-year-old Shumeka Burgan-Mentor formerly of Timehri,...

Taxi driver busted with 22kg ganja gets 4 years, fined $19.8M

Fifty-three-year-old Eusi Wilson, a taxi driver who was interception with 22 kilograms of cannabis in his motorcar on April 21, 2024, along High Street,...

2-year-old-old among 3 injured after lorry crashes into concrete bridge

A two-year-old was among three persons injured after the motor lorry in which they were travelling crashed into a concrete bridge along the Glasgow...

8 illegal structures halt major infrastructural works in Linden – CH&PA

The Chief Executive Officer of the Central Housing and Planning Authority, Sherwyn Greaves, on Wednesday morning, went with a team on a fact-finding mission...

T&T Govt denies blocking importation of milk from Guyana

claims importer returned goods to DDL   The Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Ministry had very strong words for Trinidad and Tobago’s (T&T) decision to...

Conciliation talks: Govt rejects GTU’s 20% across-the-board increase ultimatum

…says demand shocked Ministry, unreasonable The sudden ultimatum by the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) to demand that the Government pay all teachers a 20 per...

Fmr. PNC General Secretary, Oscar Clarke passes

Former General Secretary (GS) of the People's National Congress (PNC) reportedly died on Wednesday after complaining of feeling unwell. He died at a private...