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One hundred and thirty seven Guyanese were deported from the United States in 2017, according to figures provided by the U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In its 2017 report, which was released on the agency’s website, the figures represent an increase in deportations to Guyana when compared to the previous year, 2016. In 2016, ninety-three […]
The festival that once celebrated authentic Guyanese music, the Carib Soca Monarch competition, has returned to the Mash calendar of events after a two-year absence. This year it will feature 11 newcomers and three overseas-based Guyanese artistes. The Competition, which was exclusively promoted and managed by Ansa Mcal under its Carib Beer brand, is now […]
At the High Court today, a 12-member jury returned a guilty verdict against Omardat Persaud who was charged with two counts of having sexual activity with a child family member. The child was 5-years-old at the time of the incident. That verdict caught the man’s Attorney Darren Wade by surprise resulting in an outburst in […]
The Alliance for Change, which forms part of the coalition government, is contemplating whether it should enter this year’s Local Government Elections outside of the coalition. On Monday, AFC Leader, Raphael Trotman told reporters that the party is still to make a decision on whether it will go it alone into the 2018 local government […]
A Lance Corporal of the Georgetown City Constabulary remains in custody as the probe continues into the Sunday afternoon shooting death of vendor, Marlon Fredericks. A post-mortem examination conducted on the body of the man this morning found that he died from complications to his lower back as a result of a gunshot wound. Fredericks, […]
A serving member of the Guyana Defence Force is in custody this morning following investigations into a $5.5 million robbery of a woman in the Kitty area last week. Police investigations into the robbery led them to house in Middle road, La Penitence over the weekend. Once there, investigators found an unlicensed weapon with live […]
Police investigators have been dispatched to the Grant Stelling area at Hope in the Lower Pomeroon river to investigate a double murder. Two men were shot dead by a gang of men, who escaped in a speed boat this afternoon (Sunday). The two dead men have been identified as Ambrose Baharally and Martin Godette. Information […]
On Friday, two workers attached the Diamond Nightclub and hotel found themselves before the Court facing human trafficking charges. The charges came one week after the Police raided the Diamond Nightclub and hotel in Werk-en-rust and took over 40 foreign women away and into protective custody. Appearing in Court were Fiona Hopkinson and Rodwell Dempster. […]
The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) has described the treatment being meted out to retrenched sugar workers as “callous” and has fired off at their former employer, the Guyana Sugar Corporation. In a Saturday evening statement, the GTUC it has has been viewing the handling of issues related to the sugar workers with “deep concern”. Over […]
As the Police Force continue with its efforts to stamp out marijuana cultivation and trafficking, a drug raid in the Berbice area, revealed a four-acre marijuana farm. The raid was conducted on Friday in in the Berbice River communities of DeVeldt and Tabali. According to a Police statement, about four acres of cultivated cannabis with […]
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