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Anil Nandlall, the attorney for Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo, yesterday urged the Court of Appeal to expedite the hearing of the appeals that were filed challenging the rulings of Chief Justice (ag) Roxane George-Wiltshire SC regarding the controversial December 21st passage of a no-confidence motion against the government.
Saying that only a two-thirds majority of the National Assembly can extend the March 21st constitutional deadline for the holding of general elections, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday maintained that the David Granger-led APNU+AFC administration is defying the High Court by not announcing a date for elections.
Rodrick Thomas, a security guard who is one of the two men held in connection with the fatal shooting of taxi driver Kelvin Walters, was yesterday charged with murder.
Following bomb threats that forced the cancellation of classes at the Turkeyen Campus of the University of Guyana (UG), the police have detained a female student for questioning and she has since denied responsibility.
Chartered accountant Christopher Ram yesterday said that new restricted tendering thresholds unveiled by the government are illegal as they usurp authority that is now ensconced in the Public Procurement Commission (PPC).
(Trinidad Guardian) An Asian mafia connection is fuelling the multi-million dollar world of sex slaves in Trinidad and Tobago, intelligence sources close to the investigation have revealed to Guardian Media.
Diplomats and Ministry of the Presidency staff are among the latest public officials identified by the Integrity Commission as those who have failed to declare their assets and liabilities in keeping with the law but it remains unclear when legal action will be taken against anyone already in breach.
Banks DIH Limited yesterday welcomed the UniCarriers Forklift brand to Guyana as it launched a local dealership just opposite its Thirst Park headquarters at Ruimveldt.
The National Working Group on the Minamata Convention on mercury reconvened yesterday and Minister of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs Sydney Allicock said its reconstitution presents real hope for the total phase-out of mercury in local mining.
Three Chinese nationals recently arrested for illegal entry are wanted for murder in Brazil and China.
A taxi driver and his teenage co-defendant were yesterday both given jail sentences and fined $6.3 million each after they were found guilty of trafficking 26 pounds of cannabis.
A city magistrate yesterday remanded a vendor, who was charged with having a large amount of cannabis in his possession after his mother reported him to the police.
A fraud accused is now on $100,000 bail after denying that he acquired more than $2 million in phone cards by claiming that they were intended for Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence.
An adjournment was granted on Wednesday in the proceedings against former PPP/C Minister of Housing Irfaan Ali, who is facing 19 charges of conspiracy to defraud by common law, pending the outcome of a stay application in the High Court.
Almost three days after they fell into the Essequibo River, the bodies of two farmers were recovered yesterday morning.
(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Food Storage and Prevention of Infestation Division (FSPID), in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF) says it has confiscated 70 metric tonnes (1,575 bags) of White Cinderella rice from Guyana due to high microbial content.
Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, today, signed two Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) and the Guyana Hockey Board which are intended for the construction of two state-of-the-art sporting facilities behind D’Urban Park.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said today the U.S.-backed
Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday called for the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) to investigate government’s huge increases in thresholds for restricted tendering and he warned heads of agencies not to get ensnared by illegalities.
A sixty-four-year-old Bartica woman died on Saturday after being stranded for close to two days on the decrepit Puruni Trail in Region Seven.
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