Blue CAPS launch leadership training for 24 youths
BLUE CAPS (Change, Advocacy, Policy, Service) launched a Youth Leaders’ Leadership Development Programme workshop last Friday, which will be done over four weekends to instill the qualities and virtues...
View ArticlePolice launch crackdown operation on touts operating within city : -80...
THE Guyana Police Force (GPF) has been conducting operations at car and bus parks within Georgetown to apprehend touts for soliciting persons for public transportation. Within the past two weeks, some...
View ArticlePrivate security service confront alleged GT&T cable thieves at Coverden
A PRIVATE security service responded yesterday, at about 04:15 hrs, to a report received that persons were stealing cables belonging to the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company Limited (GT&T) at...
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Torture at Sparendaam Station… : File sent to PCA Chairman without medical...
CHAIRMAN of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA), Justice Cecil Kennard, yesterday confirmed that while the file pertaining to the investigation into the burning of 19-year-old Junior Torrington’s...
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Chief Elections Officer addresses GECOM role in LGE
“CALLING (Local Government) elections is outside of the remit of GECOM,” according to Chief Elections Officer of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), and Commissioner of National Registration, Mr....
View ArticleArmed robber fleeces Campbellville Post Office after daring daylight heist
STAFFERS of the Campbellville Post Office in Georgetown had the scare of their lives when a lone gunman kicked his way into the inner office and relieved the post office of $1.3M in cash, cash vouchers...
View ArticleLive broadcast of NGSA results today
TODAY the Ministry of Education will officially release the results of the National Grade Six Assessment. Last evening, the Guyana Chronicle was reliably informed that more than 33 schools from the...
View ArticleSpeaking at Freedom House… : Rohee declares PPP blameless for delayed local...
THE General Secretary, Mr. Clement Rohee has declared that his People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is not to blame for the much delayed local government elections. Speaking at his Monday press conference...
View ArticleSpeeding motorist kills three on Corentyne highway : …two critically injured
THREE persons were killed and two are critical when they were struck by a speeding motor vehicle on the Corentyne Coast last evening.Dead are Latoya Bagot, 19; Juanita Bagot, 17; and Sharmaine Cort,...
View ArticleBritish High Commissioner calls for passage of AML/CFT Bill : - says reversal...
THE British High Commissioner, Andrew Ayre, at the reception to commemorate the Queen’s birthday, Tuesday night, spotlighted the dangers of Guyana’s effective international blacklisting, with its...
View Article—CFAT, FATF requirements scoffed at… : APNU’s positions on AML/CFT Bill...
Pull quotes: “The positions of the APNU are anarchistic.” Select Committee Chair, Gail Teixiera “The cumulative effect of the two positions of the main Opposition which were advocated amounts to...
View ArticleFinance Minister: Guyana cannot afford to be dismissive of CFATF, FATF
THE Main Opposition’s “cavalier” approach to the necessity of complying with the standards of the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) and the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) was decried by...
View ArticleFinance Minister sets to right IFMAS ‘misconception’
–says it’s nothing but a ‘manufactured controversy’ FINANCE Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh yesterday addressed what he described as a “raging furor” over implementation of the Integrated Financial...
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Police Commander Hicken leads interaction with religious leaders
COMMANDER of ‘A’ Division, Senior Superintendent Clifton Hicken admitted, last Friday, that the Guyana Police Force (GPF) is looking to the religious leaders for guidance in some aspects of its...
View ArticlePresident meets pastors
PRESIDENT Donald Ramotar, accompanied by Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall, Minister in the Ministry of Finance Juan Edghill and Rev Kwame Gilbert, meet with Pastors yesterday at Office of the...
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Berbice police investigating road acccident in which three died
THE Berbice Police are continuing their investigations into the horrific accident which has left three female members of a household dead after a speeding motorcar, PPP 5842 , slammed into them on...
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Stabroek Rotary hosts another Jazz, Wine and Words ANOTHER evening of first class entertainment is expected when the Rotary Club of Stabroek presents the fifth staging of its main fund-raising event...
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50th Anniversary of the Detention of PPP Activists in 1964
FIFTY years ago, on June 13, 1964, the British Governor of, then, British Guiana ordered the detention of 35 high ranking Political Activists without any charges or trial. Thirty-three were from the...
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Digicel Credit Loan launched during early morning broadcast
DIGICEL Guyana introduced its newest product in a live radio broadcast yesterday morning. It stated that if you are in a situation where you do not have any credit in your Digicel cell phone, just dial...
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Police Chief confirms…
Common-law husband confesses to killing drowned wife TWO days after the death of 25-year-old Shelly Rampersaud, her husband is alleged to have confessed that he murdered her. The body of the mother of...
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