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A Barbadian national, who was among a group of Guyanese and Barbadians busted on a cargo vessel with over 150 pounds of marijuana pleaded guilty today to drug trafficking and was sentenced to four years in jail and fined $51.5 Million. Four of the six men who were arrested earlier this week at a city […]
The Guyana Fire Service was summoned to the bond of CARICOM Auto Parts Store at Lusignan on the East Coast of Demerara as fire swept through the building. Firemen were able to contain the blaze to the one bond, but by the time they did, millions of dollars in car parts were already destroyed. Employees […]
The Guyana Police Force in a statement this morning denied that the Deputy Chief Election Officer Roxanne Myers is in Police custody for obstruction of justice because she opted to remain silent to questions about election fraud allegations. The Force has now explained that she is in custody for conspiracy to defraud. Myers turned up […]
Police are investigating the death of a 28-year-old Albouystown woman after a cutlass attack by her husband. The dead woman has been identified as mother of three, Clarabel Johnson of Cooper Street Albouystown. She worked at Humphrey’s bakery. A police statement said the woman had an early morning row with her husband at about 6:25 […]
The Government of Guyana through the Ministry of Home Affairs has rehired former Head of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit, James Singh to once again serve in that position. Singh was removed from the position in 2017 under the last government following a Commission of Inquiry into the release of a drug boat and its […]
Upset with the pace of the investigations into the gruesome murders of teen cousins, Joel and Isaiah Henry, a group of West Berbice residents blocked roads and set fire to tyres this morning. The road blockage in #5 village West Coast Berbice, resulted in vehicles being forced to seek new routes and others turning back. […]
A 50-year-old man from Port Kaituma, North West District who was caught engaged in a sexual act with the corpse of a woman who died from COVID-19 has pleaded guilty to the crime. He will be sentenced today. The unemployed man, Leroy Chacon, appeared before the Matthew’s Ridge Magistrates’ Court yesterday and pleaded guilty to […]
Police and Prison officials are seeking the public’s help in locating convicted prisoner, James Moore who escaped from the Lusignan prison on Tuesday afternoon. According to a statement from Prison Director Gladwin Samuels, the 23-year-old prisoner who was serving a three-year sentence for armed robbery was discovered missing after conducting duties in the prison’s kitchen. […]
Evidence gathered as part of the probe of the murders of Berbice teens Isaiah and Joel Henry and Haresh Singh, have been sent to St. Lucia for detailed tests and analysis, according to President Irfaan Ali. A team of investigators from the Regional Security System is currently in Guyana to assist in the probe. During […]
A 47-year-old taxi driver was badly beaten and chopped about his body on Friday night during an invasion by bandits at his home. The injuries have resulted in the man’s death and investigators have arrested his wife on the suspicion that she was part of the planning of the invasion. Dead is Mohamed Haniff of […]
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