The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) yesterday said there was no wrongdoing by board Chairman Clinton Williams in taking control of lands for which mining permits were granted to his friend and his racking up of a multi-million dollar food and drinks bill at the agency’s expense.
After losing a bid to get Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield to withdraw his application for the elections petition to be struck out in the High Court, the PPP/C-nominated Commissioners of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) yesterday accused the elections management body of seeking to dodge public scrutiny.
Four months ago, Radica Thakoor, having exhausted all options, hand delivered a letter to the office of Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan asking that an inquiry into her daughter’s murder be held.
A uniformed soldier was among four persons held in a car with two unlicensed guns yesterday morning and army Chief-of-Staff Brigadier General Mark Phillips says that he will have to face the full brunt of the law.
The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is still looking for a way to utilise the parking lot at Camp and Lamaha streets, which was constructed for it by Chinese logging company Baishanlin.
The Pan-American Health Organisation/World Health Organisation (PAHO/ WHO) on Friday presented the Claire Forrester Media Awards for Excellence in Health Journalism.
A City Council worker has been hospitalised since Thursday with a chop to his right hand after he was attacked while trying to act as a mediator during a row between a fellow worker and a member of the public.
Police in `F’ Division (interior locations) last Friday night discovered two guns, a quantity of matching ammunition and a silencer hidden among bushes at Aprica Landing, Middle Mazaruni.
Panelists at a ‘Lunch Talk’ hosted by the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) and the USAID – Advancing Partners and Communities (APC) Guyana Project noted that stigma and discrimination are among the obstacles lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people face when accessing services for intimate partner violence (IPV).
The Dharm Shala, well-known ‘Home of Benevolence for all races’ founded by Pandit Ramsaroop Maraj, now in its 94th year is appealing for financial assistance to continue its charitable work in assisting the needy in society.
A mother is seeking help to find her 13-year-old daughter, who is believed to have run away with a man.
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif (Reuters) – Islamic State said yesterday that the married couple who killed 14 people in a mass shooting in California which US authorities are investigating as an act of terrorism were followers of the militant group.
N’DJAMENA (Reuters) – Four female suicide bombers attacked the Chadian island of Koulfoua on Lake Chad yesterday, killing at least 15 people and injuring 130 in an attack blamed by security sources on militant Islamist group Boko Haram.
A man is injured after he was shot in what seemed to be an attempted execution in front of his home on Friday morning.
LONDON (Reuters) – A man with a knife stabbed another in an east London metro station yesterday evening, reportedly screaming “this is for Syria”, before police used a stun gun on the attacker and detained him.
PARIS (Reuters) – Global climate change talks in Paris moved into a new, tougher phase yesterday as negotiators agreed on a draft accord, albeit one that still leaves hundreds of points of dispute for ministers to resolve next week.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Guyana Jaguars, replying to Trinidad and Tobago Red Force’s first innings of 210, were 233 for three at the close on the second day of their fourth round match in the Regional First Class Championship at Queen’s Park Oval today.
About 1030h. today, police ranks on “Operation Dragnet” stopped a motor vehicle with obscure number plates at Regent Street and Avenue of the Republic, Georgetown, and conducted a search during which an unlicensed sawn-off pump action shotgun and an unlicensed .38 revolver with six matching rounds were found.
(Reuters, Chattanooga, Tennessee) – The United Auto Workers union won its first organizing vote at a foreign-owned auto assembly plant in the U.S.
(Trinidad Express) Finance Minister Colm Imbert says the former PP government raided the National Gas Company (NGC) of almost $14 billion in cash.
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