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…Wales sugar workers up pressure on Govt for severance payment The Wales Estate sugar workers, who were made redundant over one year ago, staged a protest exercise on Thursday in front of the Ministry of the Presidency (MOTP), calling for their much deserved severance payments. The retrenched Wales workers are without their benefits after they refused to take up employment on the contention that they cannot be compelled, under law, to travel 22 miles from their original place of work to the Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara estate. Among the crowd…

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…Venezuela rejects decision to refer matter to ICJ One day after the United Nations (UN) announced that it would be sending the border controversy between South American neighbours Guyana and Venezuela before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for a judicial settlement, Venezuela has strongly rejected the move while Guyana’s President vowed to leave no stone unturned to secure a successful outcome for the Guyanese people by utilising all the resources necessary to adequately prepare for the case. This is despite a statement by Nicolás Maduro Administration on Wednesday criticising…

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Just over one week since facing trial for his wife’s murder, Miguel “Allan” Barker was on Monday afternoon found guilty of committing the offence of murder by the unanimous decision of a 12-member jury, and was subsequently sentenced to 80 years’ imprisonment by High Court Justice Navindra Singh. The judge had started computing Barker’s sentence at a base of 60 years, but took into consideration the fact that the accused had shown no remorse when the jury returned the verdict, as he opted to maintain his innocence. Barker later changed…

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– Marquee players will be available A window for the sixth edition of the Caribbean Premier League has been finalised, with the tournament to take place between August 8 and September 16. The schedule for the CPL has been set to avoid matches coinciding with West Indies’ international games, allowing marquee players to submit their names for this year’s draft. Speaking at the announcement, CPL’s chief operating officer Pete Russell said, “Here in the Caribbean we are blessed with some of the most exciting cricketers in the world and it…

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Opposition Leader Dr Bharrat Jagdeo on Tuesday urged scores of sugar workers and their families not to lose hope, but to continue to struggle alongside the People’s Progressive Party to secure the freedoms and gains which they have worked and toiled for over the past two and a half decades. Jagdeo, addressing a crowd at Enterprise Community Centre on the East Coast of Demerara, disclosed that the Government had begun unveiling parts of a systematic plan to undermine the support base of the Opposition with the aim of changing the…

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…“I see no basis for showing you mercy” – Judge tells accused Following a series of attacks on a young victim, Rohan Daniels, a logger, also known as “Shine Buck” was on Wednesday evening found guilty on two counts of sexual activity with a child family member by a 12-member jury at the High Court. The panel deliberated for about three hours and they were tasked with handing a verdict on four separate counts of child sex activity. An 11-1 proportion found him guilty on the first count and a…

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Two Guyanese were among 46 foreign nationals taken into custody during a five-day operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in western New York, targeting at-large criminal aliens, illegal re-entrants, and other immigration violators. According to the ICE agency, one of the Guyanese is a 46-year-old female with convictions for forgery and larceny. She will remain in ICE custody pending the outcome of her removal proceedings. The other Guyanese has been identified a 23-year-old male with convictions for driving while ability impaired and harassment, following his arrest for…

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…as 2 dead, 2 critical following accident What was a bittersweet celebration for four close friends turned into a final goodbye for two of them when they met their demise following an accident at Cornelia Ida, on the West Coast of Demerara (WCD) late Tuesday night. Twenty-six-year-old father of one, Romel Henry, of Lot 20 Second Street, Windsor Forest, WCD and 26-year-old route 32-minibus conductor, Doesh Sukhu of Lot 12 Gap Road, La Jalousie, WCD were both pronounced dead on arrival at the West Demerara Regional Hospital at around 00:30h…

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– Increased spending projected for sixth edition The Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) has announced the tournament’s economic impact across the region. The fifth edition in 2017, which took place between August 4 and September 9, created a total economic impact of US$ 95,122,465 across six nations in the Caribbean and in the USA. This figure has been arrived at by using organizer spend, visitor spend and media value and was calculated for Hero CPL by world-renowned researchers, SMG Insight. In addition to that economic impact figure the Hero CPL…

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A total of one hundred and thirty seven (137) Guyanese were deported from the United States of America (USA) in 2017, as compared to ninety three (93) persons who were removed and sent back home in 2016 for various criminal offences. This is according to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations Report (ERO) for the fiscal year 2017. The report, seeks to summarize ICE and ERO activities for the previous year. With regards to the rest of the Caribbean region, Haiti saw five thousand, five…

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