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(NY Daily News) She bilked the city out of thousands — and paid big. A Bronx woman who committed one of the borough’s biggest ever case of benefits fraud got off with five years’ probation Tuesday after paying back a hefty chunk of cash. Parvattie Raghunandan, a Guyanese immigrant who misrepresented her family’s income for […]
(NY Daily News) An NYPD housing officer was killed Tuesday night, shot in the head by a trigger-happy perp during a chase and gunfight on a pedestrian overpass above the FDR Drive in East Harlem, police said. Officer Randolph Holder, 33, was shot in the forehead by the callous gunman, who had stolen a bike […]
A survey conducted in 2011 examining the problem of child labour in Guyana has found that many teens involved in child labour have also found themselves being involved in prostitution. The Ministry of Social Protection has released the results of the survey which was conducted in Georgetown, New Amsterdam, Linden, Corriverton, Black Bush Polder, Number 58 […]
The Cheddi Jagan International Airport in a statement this afternoon announced that an Aviation Security agent attached to a private company contracted by an airline was fired for stealing US currency from an outgoing passenger at the airport. According to the statement, the female officer was processing the outgoing passenger at Gate 1 around 5:21pm last […]
The Guyana Police Force has announced that 45-year-old. Mark Angoy aka Marc, who was wanted for the murder of 1-year-old Arianne Gill, surrendered to law enforcement early this morning. In a statement, the Police Force said the man turned himself in to the police at Grove Police Station on the East Bank of Demerara. He […]
Dynamic Airways International will be moving to ensure there is always a back-up aircraft within the region to prevent a repeat of last December’s schedule and flight problems with resulted in a number of flights being postponed and hundreds of passengers in Guyana and New York being affected. The Chief Operations Officer of Dynamic International, […]
The opposition People’s Progressive Party has announced that its Members of Parliament will not be accepting the salary increases as approved by the government. In a statement last evening, the PPP which holds the minority in the National Assembly, also announced that it intends to move a motion in the House seeking to reverse the […]
Police investigators are probing the death of a 22-year-old Good Hope, East Coast Demerara man whose lifeless body was discovered by his mother on Monday morning. He has been identified as Shiraz Ali. The young man reportedly lived alone and his mother became concerned about him when she made several calls to his phone and […]
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a 37-year-old citizen of Guyana has admitted to being part of a counterfeit credit card operation that netted hundreds of thousands of dollars in gift cards bought at stores in five northeastern states. The U.S. Attorney’s Office on Monday said that Georgette Jackman pleaded guilty last Friday in federal […]
The 45-year-old man who shot and killed a 1-year-old baby as retaliation for the baby’s grandmother breaking up with him, remains on the run and the Guyana Police Force will issue an official wanted bulletin for him today. The suspected murderer has been identified as Mark Angoy of Annandale, East Coast Demerara. He is also […]
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