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A 26-year-old East Flatbush man was sentenced to 41 years in prison for the 2016 shooting death of 16-year-old Guyanese emigrant Shemel Mercurius. Online news reports had said that the 16-year-old used her dying breaths to tell police that Taariq Stephens, was her attacker. According to trial testimony, Stephens pushed his way into a sixth-story apartment in Flatbush Gardens just before 6:00 pm on May 31, 2016, carrying a .40 caliber submachine rifle and shot her while she was babysitting her 3-year old cousin. Police subsequently kicked down the East…

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…more protests expected for project to be scrapped Smart City Solutions (SCS) and the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) of the City of Georgetown have reached a new agreement under the controversial Parking Meter Project, which will now see persons paying G$150 per hour and G$800 for eight hours of parking in the city. This new structure was presented at a Special Statutory Meeting called to discuss the recommendations of the Parking Meter Renegotiation Committee, on Wednesday. “Pay for time instead of space was agreed to by both parties, thus…

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– PM Modi tells MPs of Indian origin Indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister Shrimati Sushma-Swaraj told Guyanese and other Parliamentarians of Indian origin at a world gathering last Tuesday, January 9, that the ancestral homeland is proud of their achievements. Some 141 MPs and Mayors (Chair of Regional bodies) were invited to a conference and reception in New Delhi, India. The conference was held at the Pravasi Bharatya Kendra which was built for overseas PIOs. The meeting was organised by the Ministry of External Affairs…

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US Federal immigration agents on Wednesday arrested several undocumented workers when they descended on dozens of convenience stores across the country, targeting illegal Caribbean and other immigrants. The agents descended on 7-Eleven convenience stores before daybreak, arresting undocumented workers and demanding paperwork from managers, in what the Trump administration described as its largest enforcement operation against employers so far. The sweeps of 98 stores in 17 states, from California to Florida, resulted in 21 arrests, according to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which signalled intensified efforts against businesses…

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The Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) says it has initiated the process to access a bond for the sum of two hundred thousand United States dollars (US$200,000), which was lodged by Dynamic International Airways, in collaboration with their local handling agent, Roraima Airways Inc. According to the MPI, “the funds will be used to refund passengers in Guyana who purchased tickets to travel on the now defunct Dynamic Airways, provided that they have not been able to use the whole or part of same to travel.” This publication was informed…

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…dismissed sugar workers to be given 50% severance pay this month, other half by year-end Government has announced that it will pay 50 per cent of the severance benefits to dismissed sugar workers by the end of this month. This commitment represents over G$2 billion in severance payments. This announcement was made in Parliament on Wednesday when Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo read a statement from President David Granger. However, he said that the remainder will be paid in the second half of the year. This move comes one day after…

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Guyana’s renegotiated contract with ExxonMobil was released only days ago, and analysts and commenters have already expressed concerns over the contract’s content. One such concern is Guyana agreeing to allow ExxonMobil’s affiliates almost unmitigated access to its natural gas while the company is drilling for crude oil. A part of this contract stipulates that Exxon can use gas produced from any oil field within the contract area for its own operations. During an end-of-year press conference hosted by the People’s Progressive Party, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo observed that besides all…

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Caribbean Airlines on Thursday announced that due to the winter storm which is currently pounding several parts of New York and its environs, several flights which were scheduled for January 04, 2018 have been cancelled. The Airlines said too that affected customers travelling to/from New York during the period January 04th – 06th, 2018 will be permitted to change or cancel their reservations without penalty once passengers have a confirmed ticket issued before January 04th. The affected flights are: BW 015, January 04th from Norman Manley International, Kingston, Jamaica to…

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…‘He always beat her up when he went home high’ Just hours after a Queens couple rang in the New Year, the wife became the city’s first murder victim of 2018 – and her abusive husband hanged himself from a tree in a city park. The New York Daily News reported Police sources as saying on Monday that authorities were investigating the deaths as a murder-suicide after the bodies were discovered about three hours apart on New Year’s Day. Stacy Singh, the 26-year-old mother of two small children, was stabbed…

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