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Linden Biker and auto salesman Lloyd Smith aka Junior Stboi was killed earlier Wednesday evening in an accident in Linden when he lost control of his CBR Motorcycle while trying to avoid a truck. The young man believed to be in his early 20’s was riding along the Linden Soesdyke Highway in the Kara Kara area […]
Police investigators were called to the Paradise burial ground late on Wednesday afternoon where the lifeless body of a young woman was found with multiple wounds. The dead woman has been identified as Patricia Younge aka Kattie. She is believed to be in her early 20’s and lived in one of the villages close to […]
(Toronto Star) Former North York General anesthesiologist Dr George Doodnaught was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years imprisonment for sexually assaulting 21 of his female patients. As Doodnaught, 65, was handcuffed and arrested from court, a few of the women clapped. His conduct was “reprehensible in the extreme,” Superior Court Justice David McCombs said in his […]
A Guyanese man who traveled to New York on a Fly Jamaica flight from Guyana via Kingston, Jamaica has been charged with drug trafficking and has been offered bail in the sum of US$150,000. The man, Samuel Henry arrived last Monday at New York’s JFK Airport and was about to make his way out of […]
Two weeks after an American man and a Guyanese woman were busted at the Cheddi Jagan Airport with cocaine stashed in packets of achar, a Canadian citizen has been arrested after she tried to ferry cocaine out of Guyana in the same manner. Agents of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit on Wednesday busted the 24 […]
Former President Bharrat Jagdeo has been released from a Florida hospital after being treated for dengue fever and pneumonia. He is expected to return to Guyana at the end of this week. On his official Facebook Page, it was noted that the former President is “feeling better and will be home soon”. Several sources familiar […]
Three Caribbean jurists on Tuesday took the Oath of Office before President Donald Ramotar as commissioners who will lead the inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of the late, Dr. Walter Rodney, a Guyanese historian and political activist, who was assassinated in Guyana in 1980. The three-member commission comprises top Barbadian attorney, Queen’s Counsel, […]
A twenty-year old woman who was recently turned down for a job with the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit found herself before the Chief Magistrate on Tuesday morning facing drug trafficking charges instituted by the same agency that she wanted to hire her. The young woman Tishana Edwards who worked previously with a non-governmental human rights […]
The Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Awards for Excellence has announced its three laureates for 2014. In the category of Arts and Letters Prof Liam Teague was awarded, for Public & Civic Contributions, Ms Karen de Souza of Guyana and Science & Technology was given to Dr Richard Robertson of St Vincent and The Grenadines. Chairman of […]
President Donald Ramotar has issued the Puisne Judges (maximum number) Order 2014 pursuant to Section 3 of the High Court Act, Cap. 3:02 to increase the number of Puisne Judges to 20. According to a statement issued today by Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall the Order was duly published on the February […]
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