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Seven women were arrested early Sunday morning at the Rio Nightclub after a raid by Police officers unearthed a small quantity of narcotics. A number of the women are foreign nationals and they are being held for questioning for various offences. Police investigators have not offered much information on the raid, however, investigations are ongoing. […]
Three men, including two ex-policemen and a suspected former phantom gang member, were arrested on Sunday night after a Police operation at a John Street, Campbellville house unearthed an AK-47 rifle with matching ammunition and a 9mm handgun. The Police operation was launched just around 6:00pm and continued for another two hours as they searched […]
An electrical operator died on the spot Sunday morning as an explosion rocked the KB Enterprise ice house at Houston on the East Bank of Demerara. The dead man, according to the Fire Service, has been identified as Bagwandie Lall, of Diamond Housing Scheme. According to reports, Lall and another employee of the company were […]
Alliance For Change senior members, Cathy Hughes and Raphael Trotman have both indicated their willingness to serve in the leadership of the party. The AFC will host its Congress on January 28 in the village of Vreed-en-Hoop on the West Coast of Demerara. The main issue on the agenda will be the election of party […]
(BBC) The head of the Sinaloa cartel was extradited from Mexico on Thursday. US prosecutors want an order to seize $14bn (£11.3bn) of his assets. In 2015, Mr Guzman famously escaped from a high-security prison through a tunnel – while being recorded on CCTV. He had fought against extradition since his recapture in early 2016. […]
(BBC) A prominent Brazilian Supreme Court judge has died in a plane crash. Two other bodies were found at the crash site in the sea near Paraty, some 250km (160 miles) south of Rio de Janeiro. Teori Zavascki, 68, was overseeing a massive corruption investigation at the state oil company, Petrobras. Dozens of politicians have […]
Police investigators have arrested a 28-year-old mini-bus conductor after he stabbed a man to death outside Demico House, Stabroek on Friday night. Dead is 43-year-old carpenter, Rawle Rodrigues, of Leopold Street Georgetown. According to the Police, it was just around 9:30 on Friday night that Rodrigues got into an argument with the conductor and another […]
Sixty-three year old, South Ruimveldt resident, Dennis Jones, who was recently released from prison after serving a four year drug trafficking sentence, is back in the custody of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit facing new drug trafficking charges. Jones, who was also deported from the US for drug trafficking, was arrested last evening by CANU […]
President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Sir Dennis Bryon, has recommended the establishment of a Standing Rules Committee to evaluate and update the new Civil Procedure Rules 2016. On Friday, members of the Bar and Bench attended the opening of a two day seminar on the new Rules at the Regency Hotel, Georgetown. […]
With possible money laundering charges facing him, the Government of Guyana has cut ties with Omar Shariff, who served as the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of the Presidency. Shariff was sent on administrative leave since June, 2016 but received a dismissal letter late December, bringing his tenure to an end. In a statement issued […]
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