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President David Granger has reiterated his Government’s commitment to the course of action outlined by former United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon regarding the Guyana-Venezuela border controversy. He made this clear during his meeting with incumbent Secretary General, António Guterres on Monday. In a special interview in New York earlier Tuesday, the President said that the engagement with Guterres offered an opportunity to seek clarification and to be updated on the progress that has been made thus far. “Yesterday’s meeting was largely what you will call a situational report and…

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A Brazilian national working in a Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) mining camp was brutally slaughtered by cross-border bandits armed with rifles and handguns, in a brazen attack in the early hours of Wednesday morning. The robbery saw the gunmen carting off a quantity of raw gold. Dead is 36-year-old dredge owner Antonio Da Silva, whose body was found at a mining camp in Akaiwanna, Cuyuni, Region Seven with several wounds suspected to be gunshots. According to preliminary reports, the brazen incident lasted for some eight hours – from 17:45h Tuesday and…

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Tiffini Collison of Lot F 21 Samaan Street, Guyhoc Park Georgetown, who was wanted for posting cocaine laced hammocks to the USA has surrendered to the Custom Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU). The drug enforcement body issued a wanted bulletin for the mother of one on Monday and on Tuesday evening she turned up at CANU in the company of her lawyer. It was reported that the 26-year-old used an international Courier Service to ship the hammocks sometime last week. However, on Thursday last, the package was intercepted by ranks of the…

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…with eviction only months away Residents in the vicinity of the site for the new Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) at Houston, East Bank Demerara (EBD) have indicated that they were in the dark over the Public Infrastructure Ministry’s plans regarding the removal of several homes to facilitate construction of the crossing. It is expected that construction of the Houston-Versailles bridge across the Demerara River will commence in the new year. The relocation of several buildings was deemed necessary to facilitate the construction of road overpasses that would lead to the…

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A proposal for the construction of a marina in Bartica was on the agenda when Minister of Business, Dominic Gaskin travelled to the Region Deven community and met with stakeholders to discuss the project. The marina will add to the growing number of attractions that are slowly making the new township one of Guyana’s premier tourism hotspots. The initial stage of the project will see the construction of a dinghy dock and the laying of moorings to facilitate ‘pleasure’ yachts. Once completed the infrastructure will ensure the provision of safe,…

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…advocates auctioning off available petroleum blocks President David Granger’s Petroleum Advisor, Dr Jan Mangal, has come out publicly in support of the calls by Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo, and has since called for the auctioning of the available petroleum blocks. Dr Mangal was at the time responding to queries raised and published by the Guyana Times and attributed to the Opposition Leader, who this past week raised the matter as a worrying case of cronyism evolving, wherein relatives, friends and associates of Ministers and senior Government functionaries have been incorporated…

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New Demerara River bridge The political Opposition is in support of a new bridge across the Demerara River. However, the party has insisted that it will not support a bridge that is mired in corruption, is already slated to exceed the Berbice Bridge in cost, and is financially unsustainable. Demanding answers on some of the project’s more shady details, the People’s Progressive Party, in a statement on Saturday, questioned the financial structure of the bridge and the relationship between a businessman and the Government’s choice of the location for the…

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A grandmother looking to raise quick cash was on Thursday sentenced to 4 years in prison and fined G$6.2M after she pleaded guilty to the charge of attempting to traffic cocaine. Seeta Rampersaud, 59, was in tears as the court heard that on September 18, 2017, she was intercepted in the scanning area of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) by a Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) officer who noticed strange items in her carrying case. Upon further inspection, it was observed that a quantity of cocaine ( 2.318kg) was…

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The Guyana Police Force has detailed, through its Public Relations and Press Officer Superintendent Jairam Ramlakhan, that a group of six persons, inclusive of three females were robbed on Tuesday morning at Second Bridge, Mocha, East Bank Demerara by a lone, armed perpetrator. According to Ramlakhan, diligent work on the part of the Force has resulted in the arrest of a 27-year-old unemployed suspect of 96 Nelson Street, Mocha who was on Wednesday positively identified by the victims. The suspect, Dillion Joel Dublin, has since been charged with six counts…

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One of the prevailing criticisms of Guyana’s aviation sector has been its lack of high-tech systems like the Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADSB) to keep track of planes. But the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) is pushing back against suggestions that it is dragging its feet. According to GCAA Director General Egbert Field, the authority has in fact had this technology in operation since 2015. Field noted, however, that it was limited to tracking planes flying at a certain altitude. “I would like to inform individuals that if they check…

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