By News Source Guyana on December 10, 2014
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The Guyana Police Force on Wednesday morning confirmed that the remains of a woman’s body that were found back in July in a bushy area at Turkeyen are those of St. Stanislaus teacher Nyozi Goodman. Public Relations Officer of the Guyana Police Force, Ivelaw Whittaker told News Source that the samples which were sent to Trinidad […]
By News Source Guyana on December 10, 2014
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(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago Attorney General Anand Ramlogan has described as “mischievous, malicious and very dangerous” charges of racial and religious discrimination in the arrest of people or racial profiling in the deportation of illegal immigrants by the Government of the People’s Partnership. Ramlogan said statistics from 2010 to October 2014 showed “the number […]
By News Source Guyana on December 10, 2014
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Guyana’s Leader of the Opposition, Brigadier (retired) David Granger is of the strong view that democracy in Guyana has died and President Donald Ramotar ought to take the blame for that death. On Tuesday, Mr. Granger and his APNU supporters held an all black silent protest outside the President’s office. The Opposition Leader told reporters that […]
By News Source Guyana on December 9, 2014
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A Guyanese man who arrived in Antigua last Friday (December 5, 2014) with just over two pounds of cocaine in small packets in his stomach, has been sentenced to 14 months in jail. The sentence was handed down after he was unable to pay the fine instituted against him for drug trafficking. According to the […]
By News Source Guyana on December 9, 2014
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Drug pushers are continuing their efforts to get cocaine into the United States from Guyana and they may now be targeting the duty-free stores at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport. Another passenger from Guyana has been busted at New York’s JFK Airport. The man who has been identified as Raphael Armstrong was nabbed with 6.3 […]
By News Source Guyana on December 8, 2014
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A security guard attached to Sterling Products Limited was shot dead at the company’s Providence headquarters on Monday night as gunmen stormed the premises in a failed robbery attempt. The dead security guard has been identified as Wilfred Stewart. According to reports, it was just before 7 pm on Monday that at least four armed men […]
By News Source Guyana on December 8, 2014
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The American citizen who was busted on Friday at the Cheddi Jagan Airport with 40 pounds of cocaine in baking powder and custard powder packets has pleaded guilty to the drug trafficking charge. The man who has been identified as Tanasha Fleming was slapped with a 5 year sentence after his guilty plea when he […]
By News Source Guyana on December 8, 2014
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Hundreds of residents from communities along the East Bank of Demerara who were swamped by floodwaters when a koker door fell apart, are calling on the government to offer them a better relief package. Community representatives protested outside the Office of the President and the Agriculture Ministry on Monday morning in wake of the reported […]
By News Source Guyana on December 8, 2014
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Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Honourable Gaston Browne, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda called on the United States President and Congress to end its “senseless embargo of Cuba now.” Prime Minister Browne was speaking at the opening ceremony of the Fifth CARICOM Cuba Summit in Havana, Cuba on Monday. He said that CARICOM’s […]
By News Source Guyana on December 7, 2014
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The Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority, Khurshid Sattaur believes that the agency is on its way to another record breaking year in tax collection. In a statement issued on Friday, Sattaur described as “epic”, the performance of the GRA under his stewardship. According to the GRA, under Sattaur’s twelve years at the helm of […]