By News Source Guyana on January 23, 2019
Crime, News
One of the suspects in last night’s gunning down of security officer, Kelvin Walters, at McDoom , has been arrested. The suspect has been identified 25-year-old Devon Williams of Albouystown. He was arrested at the Woodlands Hospital last evening, where he had gone to seek medical attention for a broken left pelvis. Investigators were alerted […]
By News Source Guyana on January 22, 2019
Crime, News
Police investigators are on the hunt for at least two armed men who shot a young driver dead on the Eccles Public Road this evening. The dead man has been identified as 35-year-old Kelvin Walters. He was rushed to the Georgetown Hospital with a gunshot wound to the face. Doctors pronounced him dead on arrival. […]
By News Source Guyana on January 22, 2019
News
The Guyana Elections Commission held its first statutory meeting in almost two months today as the Chairman returned to work following more than a month of medical leave. Today’s meeting saw the Chairman suspending the agenda of the meeting to look at issues related to possible early elections. The Chief Elections Officer has now been […]
By News Source Guyana on January 22, 2019
Crime
A former member of the Guyana Police Force, who found himself on the other side of the law, will be spending the next four years in jail after being found guilty of cocaine trafficking. Ex-policeman Louis Dublin was today sentenced by Magistrate Leron Daly on the completion of the trial. He was arrested and charged […]
By News Source Guyana on January 22, 2019
News, Politics
The Largest party in the coalition government, the People’s National Congress is making it clear that President David Granger will be the Coalition’s Presidential Candidate for the next elections. Mr. Granger is also the Leader of the People’s National Congress and Chairman of the APNU. In a statement, PNC General Secretary Amna Ally said the […]
By News Source Guyana on January 21, 2019
News, Politics
As the dust settles following the election of Irfaan Ali to lead the People’s Progressive Party into the next elections, two of the former hopefuls for the same position have revealed that they preferred Anil Nandlall for the top spot. In Facebook posts this evening, both Dr. Frank Anthony and Dr. Vindhya Persaud revealed that […]
By News Source Guyana on January 21, 2019
Crime, News
Two members of the deadly Venezuelan Sindicato Gang, who were caught in Guyana with grenades, have been remanded to prison. The two Venezuelan men, Daniel Alberto and Luis Alfredo Vasquez Gonzales, stood before Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court this morning and did not have much to say as the charge was read […]
By News Source Guyana on January 21, 2019
News
Shareholders of local conglomerate, Banks DIH Limited, will gather this Saturday for their Annual General Meeting and they will hear that the company is doing well. Banks DIH has reported a 14% increase in its profit after taxes. The company after tax earnings for last year, stands at $4.085 billion. Total revenue generated by the […]
By News Source Guyana on January 21, 2019
Crime, News
Police investigators are on the hunt for a Pike Street, Sophia man, who is wanted for the stabbing death of a businessman from D’ Field, Sophia. The dead man has been identified as 48-year-old, Godfrey Phillips. A police statement said Phillips was locking up his shop just before midnight on Sunday, when he noticed that […]
By News Source Guyana on January 21, 2019
News, Politics
General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party, Bharrat Jagdeo does not plan to step away from that position anytime soon and has indicated that he takes his job seriously as General Secretary. In an interview on Saturday just after the PPP elected Irfaan Ali as its Presidential Candidate, Mr. Jagdeo said one of his tasks […]