By News Source Guyana on April 27, 2016
News, Politics
Former Presidential Information Liaison under the PPP, Kwame McCoy was on Wednesday slapped with three charges for actions meted out against Political Activist Mark Benchcop back in March 2011. McCoy appeared at the Providence Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Lerone Daly and was granted bail in the sum of $275,000. He was granted $200,000 bail for […]
By News Source Guyana on April 27, 2016
Sports
The HERO Caribbean Premier League (CPL) are delighted to announce that the initial batch of tickets for the forthcoming season, which will be staged this year from 29 June – 7 August, are on sale now. In excess of 300,000 fans attended the biggest party in sport last year and tournament organisers are confident that […]
By News Source Guyana on April 27, 2016
Sports
West Indies’ victorious cricketers have been reprimanded by the ICC for their actions and comments in the wake of their World T20 triumph in Kolkata earlier this month. The team, which secured an emotional four-wicket victory in the final against England, had come close to withdrawing from the tournament before a ball had been bowled, […]
By News Source Guyana on April 26, 2016
News
Quick action by the Guyana Police Force in the Mazaruni area has resulted in the arrest of two men who robbed a miner of a large quantity of raw gold after they brutally chopped him about the body. The man survived the injuries. According to a Police report, 42-year-old miner, Neil Jordan, of Bartica, Essequibo, […]
By News Source Guyana on April 26, 2016
News, Politics
The East Bank Essequibo woman, Bibi Safoora Salim, who allegedly used her Facebook page to issue a death threat against the President was granted bail in the sum of $200,000 in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday as she appeared in court to face charges related to the social media post. The 52-year-old woman appeared before […]
By News Source Guyana on April 26, 2016
News
Almost four years after the gruesome September 2012 murder of an Anna Catherina mother and her two sons, the man who lived next door, was on Tuesday charged and remanded to prison for the crime. Thirty – one – year old Barber, Abishai Caesar, appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate, Rochelle Liverpool and […]
By News Source Guyana on April 26, 2016
News
A Guyanese man was killed and another critically injured in a shooting incident in San Fernando, Trinidad on Monday. The dead man was identified as Guyanese national Kemraj Persad, 30, a construction worker, of Hummingbird Avenue, Duncan Village. According to a report in the Trinidad Guardian, Eyewitnesses said Persad, and another man identified as Sean […]
By News Source Guyana on April 25, 2016
News
The Guyana Police Force on Monday filed a murder charge against taxi driver, Ranachal Singh, after he was fingered in allegedly assisting in the dumping of the body of Sophia resident, Simone Hackett, after she was stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend in the backseat of Singh’s taxi. The ex-boyfriend, Clevaughn Hamilton, was charged with […]
By News Source Guyana on April 25, 2016
Entertainment, News
The Ministry of Tourism continues to pull in more sponsors as it gets ready to roll out the Jubilee Festival from May 19-22 as part of Guyana’s Independence celebrations. Today, Banks DIH Limited, Digicel Guyana and the Singer Department Store became the latest corporate sponsors of the event. According to the Ministry, the donations will […]
By News Source Guyana on April 25, 2016
News
The 32-year-old man who was shot dead by a Yarrowkabra shopkeeper during a robbery attempt on Sunday, has been identified as the same man who was busted at New York’s JFK Airport with cocaine in cream liqueur in 2014. He was deported in 2015. The man, Raphael Armstrong called “Scar” was shot dead on Sunday night […]