President David Granger yesterday admitted that some candidates were victorious at last Friday’s local government polls because of the political endorsements they would have received from the governing APNU+AFC coalition.
The US Embassy, the British High Commission and the Canadian High Commission yesterday said that they believed that the voting and counting processes at Friday’s local government elections were “free, fair, and credible.”
Several vendors who ply their trade along the Merriman Mall have registered their dissatisfaction with the recent hike in rent imposed on them by the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC).
In the face of dwindling donor funds for HIV programmes, partners of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) on Thursday committed to implementing high impact, cost effective interventions that would sustain national and regional responses.
MOSCOW/DUBAI (Reuters) – All 62 people aboard a passenger jet flying from Dubai to southern Russia were killed when their plane crashed on its second attempt to land at Rostov-on-Don airport yesterday, Russian officials said.
Over the last two days, ranks of the Guyana Police Force arrested two men on separate occasions after they discovered two guns and a quantity of ammunition.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – A senator accused of involvement in Brazil’s biggest corruption scandal said President Dilma Rousseff and her predecessor Lula were both aware of it and tried to block prosecutors from investigating, Veja magazine said yesterday.
The police say they are conducting investigations into the murder of O’Riley Small, 32 years, of Smyth Street, Georgetown, whose body was found about 0300h.
MOSCOW/DUBAI, (Reuters) – All 62 people aboard a passenger jet flying from Dubai to southern Russia were killed when their plane crashed on its second attempt to land at Rostov-on-Don airport on Saturday, Russian officials said.
The U.S. Embassy, British High Commission and Canadian High Commission today congratulated the Guyanese people on the democratic process that they observed in yesterday’s local government elections.
These results have been taken from polling stations visited by Stabroek News last night and this morning following the close of voting in the Local Government Elections.
Preliminary results from yesterday’s historic local government polls show that the governing APNU+AFC coalition was sweeping the contests in Georgetown and Bartica.
Social activist Mark Benschop and his Benschop for Mayor group were at press time losing badly to APNU+AFC and also coming behind Team Legacy in Local Government Elections yesterday in South Ruimveldt Park/Ruimveldt Industrial Estate.
The Bartica Independent Green Alliance (BIGA) was completely wiped out by the governing APNU+AFC coalition at yesterday’s local government elections.
The candidate for constituency 13 who APNU+AFC withdrew support from over child molestation allegations pulled big votes at two polling stations based on results gathered by Stabroek News last night.
From early results last night from the Meadow Bank-Agricola area, 90-year-old James Samuels looks set for a seat on the Georgetown City Council after yesterday’s Local Government Elections.
Red Thread is calling on President David Granger to relieve Minister Volda Lawrence of the social protection portfolio.
The property at Middle and Waterloo streets, where the Halito Hotel is sited, is up for sale.
Murder-accused Owen Belfield yesterday testified that there was calm in the prisoners’ dorm prior to the deadly fire at the Camp Street jail that claimed the lives of 17 inmates.
Tiger Pond and Meriwau in the Rupununi have been hard hit by the ongoing drought and the Guyana Water Inc is taking steps to alleviate the situation.
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