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 […]
By News Source Guyana on April 25, 2016
News
The Solid Waste Department of the Georgetown City Council has proposed urgent considerations on licensing all private waste removers operating in the city. The move comes as the Department has found several private waste operators skipping the dumpsite and dumping garbage in areas close to the dumpsite and across parts of the city. According to […]
By News Source Guyana on April 25, 2016
News
A suspected bandit who has been identified as Raphael Armstrong was shot dead by a Yarrowkabra shopkeeper during a robbery attempt on Sunday. According to reports it was just after 8:00pm on Sunday night that Armstrong and an accomplice entered the home of the shopkeeper and demanded money from him. The bandit and the shopkeeper […]
By News Source Guyana on April 25, 2016
News, Politics
The People’s Progressive Party (PPP), which had one of its leaders describe local journalists as vultures, banned reporters and withhold government ads from the private newspapers during its time in office, is now expressing concern about censorship of the media in Guyana. In a Monday morning statement, the PPP said, persons of various political hues […]
By News Source Guyana on April 24, 2016
Sports
South American Youth record holder and gold medalist, Jason Yaw is adjusting well to college life in Texas despite having financial difficultly. In an exclusive with News Source Sport, Yaw who is now attending Western Texas College pointed out that adjusting to the training is proving to be a walk in the park. “Well I’m adjusting […]