ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell today slammed what he called an “amazing level of disrespect” on the part of West Indies Cricket Board president Dave Cameron, as pressure continued to mount on the beleaguered Board to meet urgently with CARICOM leaders over the Governance Review Panel report.
Two suspects were arrested on Tuesday in relation to the robbery of former Crime Chief, Assistant Commissioner Leslie James and his family on Sunday morning.
No decision has been made as yet by the government over a request by the Chinese logging company Baishanlin for a further two years for value-added production, according to a statement from the Ministry of the Presidency.
A man died less than an hour after he was shot execution-style while sitting on the stairs of his home yesterday afternoon and his five-year-old son was injured.
Former Home Affairs Minister Ronald Gajraj is suing his successor Gail Teixeira for defamation over statements she allegedly made about him which were contained in a US diplomatic cable released by the WikiLeaks website.
In response to a call on Monday by former President Donald Ramotar for the army to get involved in the crime fight, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) yesterday maintained that results are being seen and even further progress is expected in the future.
Brothers Orwin and Cleon Hinds yesterday testified that they signed statements prepared by the police, only because they had been badly beaten by the lawmen, were in pain, and afraid.
The corpse of what was suspected to be a newborn baby, believed to have died after delivery was yesterday afternoon discovered buried in a small grave under a La Bonne Intention (LBI), East Coast Dem-erara (ECD) premises and police have arrested two persons.
Finance Minister Winston Jordan yesterday warned that Guyana’s economy is being battered by global economic conditions and crucial remittances have also taken a hit.
April, 1978 saw deteriorating power and water services in addition to the shortage of food and other items leaving a US embassy cable to say that the average Guyanese seems to have become demoralised over the “sharp decline in his standard of living”.
Continuing its efforts to justify significant salary increases for its ministers, the APNU+AFC government yesterday said that both Presidents Bharrat Jagdeo and Donald Ramotar received monthly tax-free salaries of $1.7 million and now earn pensions of $4.5 million each per month in addition to perks.
The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) on Tuesday blasted the government’s decision to give it only one seat on the trade union recognition board compared to two for its longstanding rival, the Trades Union Congress (TUC).
The recent invasion of a Region Seven gold mining camp was not a case of robbery, according to Divisional Commander Senior Superintendent Ravindradat Budhram, who said investigators will be pursuing reports that it stemmed from a land dispute.
The annual Mashramani celebrations will proceed as usual except for the Annual Republic Lecture series and the annual float and costume parade both of which have been rescheduled for May to coincide with the 50th independence anniversary festivities.
A man who was charged with chopping a teen to death before throwing his body into the Mahaicony River in 2014 was yesterday committed to stand trial in the High Court.
Nigel Inniss, one of four alleged bandits who stormed a Mahaicony supermarket late last month and carried out a brazen armed robbery, was yesterday slapped with six charges and was remanded to prison.