By News Source Guyana on February 26, 2018
Crime, News
At the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court today, a Baramita resident was charged and placed on $200,000 over allegation of engaging in sexually at with a 6-year-old child, some 16 years ago. 30-year-old, Vel Smith, appeared before a City Magistrate and was not required to enter a plea to the charge when it was read to him. […]
By News Source Guyana on February 26, 2018
News
With their hands cuffed to each other, a father and son appeared in Court today and were charged for using fake number plates on two vehicles that appeared to have been stolen. Twenty-three-year old, Ricky Chung and his father, 43-year-old, Nigel Chung pleaded not guilty to the charges. The Court heard that between the 17th August […]
By News Source Guyana on February 26, 2018
Crime, News
A First Avenue, Bartica Woman made her first appearance before a City Magistrate today and was charged for the offense of attempted murder over the stabbing of a man. The two reportedly were involved in an argument that quickly escalated into a fight. 31-year-old, Venessa Creighton stood before the Magistrate with few expressions and the […]
By News Source Guyana on February 26, 2018
News, Politics
To the beat of dynamic African drumming, members of the local Rastafarian community and supporters chanted and marched from the East Coast Demerara community of Buxton through the streets of Georgetown in a move to pressure the government into decriminalizing marijuana use here. The march, which started early Monday morning and ended just after noon at the Square of […]
By News Source Guyana on February 26, 2018
News, Politics
Permanent Secretaries and other frontline implementors of Government’s public policy were Monday told to get serious about public policy management and not see themselves as pen pushers or paper shufflers. The Permanent Secretaries along with their Deputies, Regional Executive Officers and Heads of Budget Agencies are currently participating in a face-to-face training programme on public […]
By News Source Guyana on February 24, 2018
News
As fire investigators returned today to the scene of yesterday’s devastating fire, which gutted three buildings in Plaisance, a gruesome discovery was made buried in the still smoking debris. Investigators found the remains of a body, suspected to be that of 82-year-old, James Johnson. Fire Prevention Officer, Andrew Holder, told HGP Nightly News anchor Travis […]
By News Source Guyana on February 24, 2018
News
While many jumped and celebrated through the streets of Georgetown during Friday’s Mashramani costume parade, over 30 persons in the East Coast village of Plaisance became homeless. A mid-afternoon fire ripped through two buildings in the community. The fire started in an old hotel that houses several tenants. The wooden buildings which is more than […]
By News Source Guyana on February 22, 2018
Crime, News
The Guyana Police Force has launched an investigation into the armed robbery of a Deputy Programme Manager at the Caricom Secretariat. The 59-year-old man was shot in the leg and relieved of just over $200,000 as he was about to enter his Atlantic Gardens yard. The official had just left the Republic Bank Triumph branch […]
By News Source Guyana on February 22, 2018
Crime, News
One week after a mother and her 19-year-old daughter were charged for cocaine trafficking, the two were back in Court today, but this time, the mother entered a guilty plea insisting that it was all her doing. The mother, Kavita Persaud, claimed that she used her daughter, Rachel Narine as a drug mule because she […]
By News Source Guyana on February 22, 2018
News, Politics
Businessman Siri Persaud, has apologized to President David Granger and the Government over an advertisement that was placed in two of the local daily newspapers, encouraging investors to “GO INVEST Elsewhere”. Today, Minister of State Joe Harmon, told the media that the President received a letter from businessman Sir Persaud, who owns a business in […]