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Keeping State House attacker incommunicado unacceptable – McCormack

The restriction on visitation endured by the family of the Bethel Chimezie, the perpetrator of the attack outside State House is “not acceptable” and President of the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA), Mike McCormack said that the police should justify under what legal circumstance he is being kept incommunicado.

Cop, fisherman fatally shot in Mahaicony incident

-mother says wounded son left for four hours A corporal attached to the Mahaicony Police Station and a 20-year-old fisherman were fatally wounded during the wee hours of Sunday by ranks who were responding to a report of a stabbing.

Twenty-eight women murdered in 2022

Twenty-eight women were murdered last year with the majority of the killers being their husband/partners who were abusive or didn’t accept their decision to end the relationship.

Nigel Dharamlall

Dharamlall defends electoral boundary changes ahead of local gov’t polls

Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Nigel Dharamlall on Friday defended government’s decision to revert to the use of 2016 district boundaries, some of which have been extended, for the upcoming 2023 Local Government Elections (LGE), while saying that it would ensure there is greater democracy and representation of the people at the local level.

Aneal Giddings testified before the Presidential CoI into the March 2020 elections on Thursday

GECOM IT Manager recounts efforts to safeguard SOPs

Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Information Technology (IT) manager Aneal Giddings has said although he tried to safeguard election materials, including Statement of Polls (SOPs) from the March 2, 2020 elections, then Deputy Chief Election Officer (DCEO), Roxanne Myers accused him of breaching emergency protocols.

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