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Deputy Commissioner Nigel Hoppie is currently acting as the country’s Top Cop as the leadership of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) has seen another shake-up due to two of its most senior members proceeding on pre-retirement leave.
The Alliance For Change (AFC) yesterday congratulated President Irfaan Ali on his election while maintaining that there were “countless” irregularities at the March 2nd election and this would be pursued via a petition.
Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs François-Philippe Champagne yesterday said that Ottawa looks forward to working with President Irfaan Ali.
After a spike in the number of COVID-19 cases in Guyana was reported over the weekend, no new results were released on Monday.
The suspected bandit who was killed after being shot after a home invasion at Nandy Park, East Bank Demerara on Sunday night, has been identified as a resident of Castello Housing Scheme, La Penitence.
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, on Sunday congratulated the new President of Guyana, Dr.
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) yesterday welcomed the conclusion of Guyana’s General and Regional Elections of 2 March 2020 with the declaration of the final results.
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack has discontinued criminal charges of misconduct in public office that were filed against the Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), retired judge Claudette Singh.
The police are investigating allegations made by former minister Simona Broomes, who has said she was threatened at her home early yesterday morning.
Edward Skeete, one of the five men wounded during Sunday morning’s shooting at Magic City Lounge at Garnett Street, remains hospitalised in a critical condition.
A five-year-old child, who was stabbed almost a week and a half ago, is still recovering at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).
Congratulating Irfaan Ali on his election as President, the US-based Carter Center today urged the new government to reach across the divide and move swiftly on electoral and constitutional reforms.
President Irfaan Ali this morning met with the Heads of the Departments of the Ministry of the Presidency (MoTP).
Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland today congratulated President Irfaan Ali on his swearing in yesterday and reaffirmed the group’s commitment to support the people of Guyana in the strengthening of democratic and inclusive governance.
Three persons succumbed to injuries sustained during a late night accident along the Whim, Corentyne Public Road yesterday.
Exactly five months after voters went to the polls and the rolling back of blatant efforts to rig the March 2nd general elections in favour of APNU+AFC, the PPP/C’s presidential candidate Irfaan Ali was dramatically sworn in yesterday as Guyana’s 9th President.
In one of his last official acts before demitting office, President David Granger yesterday recognised the declaration by the Chair of GECOM, Justice (ret’d) Claudette Singh of the recount results which showed a victory for the opposition PPP/C at the March 2nd polls and he also signalled that an election petition was in the offing.
Guyana yesterday saw an alarming rise in new coronavirus cases by 44 with 38 of these in Region Nine.
A taxi driver is dead and five others were injured following a shooting at a Garnett Street nightclub yesterday morning.
A bandit was shot and killed last night after he and his accomplice invaded a Nandy Park, East Bank Demerara home.
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