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Six years after being charged for statutory rape of a 15 – year – old girl, former President of the Guyana Teachers Union, Colwyn King was on Friday freed of the charge. King’s trial began earlier this week before a 12-member jury in the Georgetown High Court. Ten of the 12 jurors presented a not […]
(CNN) While she’s a straight A student, she’s the first to admit that getting into so many schools didn’t come without a lot of hard work. Her studiousness is ingrained in her: Hyles spent the first decade of her life in a small village called Vryheid’s Lust in Guyana. “They were a bit more serious […]
A young Police Special Constable who was part of a Joint Services and Guyana Geology and Mines operation died on Friday in a river mishap in the Potaro river. Twenty-two year old Akeem Hyles drowned as the boat capsized in the Amatuk Falls area throwing the entire team overboard. It is unclear whether the young […]
A 29 – year – old Guyanese man is the latest person to be busted with cocaine at the John . F . Kennedy Airport in the United States. The Guyanese man, who was identified as Rajendra Ramrattan was found with 550.7 grams of the illicit substance concealed in the pocket of a pair of […]
President David Granger has rejected a call from local corruption monitoring body – Transparency Institute Guyana – for him to release the names of donors, both pre and post elections. Transparency Institute Guyana had made the call following recent revelations regarding the appointment of advisors, particularly that of Brian Tiwarie by State Minister Joseph Harmon. […]
The Guyana Government has approved the application of Surinamese Airline ‘Fly All Ways N. V.’ to operate scheduled air services here. This will take effect from this month and will be for an initial period of two years. The Airline will operate on two routes, twice weekly from Paramaribo to Georgetown and then to Barbados. […]
Government on Thursday said it is prepared to defend the authority and actions of Community Minister Ronald Bulkan in selecting Council Heads in areas where there was an equality of seats in the recently concluded local government elections. The government’s statement follows a decision by High Court Judge, Diana Insanally to quash the appointments of […]
Several sealed boxes of what appeared to be the cocaine, ammunition and cash that were seized back in April 2015 in a house in Diamond, were on Thursday morning taken into the Georgetown Magistrates Court by armed ranks of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit. There, the case involving self-confessed drug lord Barry Dataram was expected […]
Leader of the Opposition and former President Bharrat Jagdeo has denied that the People’s Progressive Party received any money from the BaiShanLin Chinese company as funding for its 2016 elections campaign. Earlier this week, reports surfaced that the PPP had received over $100 Million from the BaiShanLin group as a campaign donation. Mr. Jagdeo said […]
Two sisters, one only 12-years-old, were on Thursday charged and remanded for the brutal murder of their 64-year-old father, who they claimed had sexually molested them both in the past. The 12-year-old adopted daughter and 18-year-old biological daughter of Roger Manikam, Nalinie Manikam were jointly charged along with 24-year-old Veeram Dias Lall, aka Adam and […]
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