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A 21-year-old man from Stevedore Housing Scheme in Georgetown is nursing gunshot wounds after he was shot by police in an early morning stand off in the Grove community on the East Bank of Demerara. The young man who has been identified as Devon Forde, and his accomplice had just robbed a Grove resident after […]
President David Granger delighted children enrolled in the Sophia Literacy Programme when he turned up at their annual Christmas party, hosted at Congress Place, earlier on Saturday , and distributed 21 bicycles donated to his ‘three Bs’ programme. The President handed over the bicycles, donated by Mr. Komal Singh, Managing Director of GAICO Construction Incorporated […]
(Trinidad Express) A 38-year-old Guyanese man was beaten to death outside of his El Socorro home yesterday morning. At about 7 a.m. yesterday, the body of the man was discovered at the back of a home along Mohammed Terrace, El Socorro. The body was partially nude as his pants had been pulled down and his […]
The Guyana Water Incorporated has launched an internal investigation into an alleged act of sabotage that was targeting the company’s ICT Network. Earlier this week, GWI personnel discovered a device which reportedly compromised the ICT network of the water company. In a statement, the company said that on Friday December 4, GWI’s ICT Department received […]
The private criminal charge against former President Bharrat Jagdeo for allegedly making racially divisive remarks during the 2015 elections campaign, has been thrown out by Justice Navendra Singh. Jagdeo had moved to the High Court for the charge to be thrown out after he was dragged before the Whim Magistrates’ Court and charged for the […]
(MOTP)- President David Granger announced, what he called the Linden Action Plan, as he urged residents of Linden, Region Ten, to rebuild their economy on the four pillars of investment, information, infrastructure and innovation. The President made this announcement as 40 entrepreneurs received their loan approval letters from the Linden Enterprise Network (LEN), during the […]
(NY Daily News) The feds arrested the reputed drug courier caught smuggling two rum and coke cakes into the U.S. through Kennedy Airport — cocaine, that is. Romel Samuels was selected for examination Tuesday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers after he stepped off a flight from Guyana, according to a complaint filed in […]
Police in Mahdia and officers of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission are probing yet another mining pit collapse which resulted in the loss of life. 47-year-old miner, Terrence Lobert of Eccles, East Bank Demerara died today (Thursday) when the mining pit collapsed as he was working in it. The man was buried several feet down […]
(NY Daily News) A Brooklyn jury ordered Delta Airlines to pay $759,000 in damages to a security guard who was arrested after a nefarious baggage handler planted cocaine in his suitcase. “I must give praise and thanks to God!” a beaming Roger Levans said outside Brooklyn Federal Court Thursday, after the jury deliberated only two […]
The coalition government has recommitted itself to honouring the human rights of all citizens, regardless of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, religion, educational achievement, political connection, economic power or social influence. A statement from the Minister of Social Protection, Volda Lawrence said Human Rights should never be confined to the wealthy and famous but must […]
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