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Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma on Monday announced that former Guyana President Bharrat Jagdeo will lead the Commonwealth Observer Mission to overlook the Presidential elections in Sri Lanka in January, 2015. Jagdeo was Guyana’s longest serving President. He became President in 1999 after Mrs. Janet Jagan was forced to step down from office because of ill […]
The lifeless body of 35-year-old woman was found floating in a creek at the back of Sophia on Monday morning. The dead woman has been identified as Natasha Ann Jacobs. She lived in the Sophia area and was last seen alive on Saturday by her mother. According to residents in the area, the woman and […]
In Canje Berbice, investigators are probing the brutal stabbing death murder of a 14-year-old girl whose body was found in a trench in the community on Saturday. The teenager went missing on Friday evening and relatives and family friends began search efforts. Those efforts came to a sad end when they discovered her body with […]
A Paradise father cried out uncontrollably as he gripped the body of his lifeless son moments after the young man was hit down off his bicycle and killed by a speeding motor car that operated as a taxi. The 12-year-old boy has been identified as Cujoe McPherson of Paradise, East Coast Demerara. He was a […]
Search and rescue teams were dispatched on Sunday afternoon to areas close to Mahdia after a Britten Norman Islander aircraft belonging to Air Services Limited went missing with the pilot and one passenger on board. The pilot has been identified as Nicky Persaud. The aircraft bears the registration number 8R-GHE. According to reports it was […]
Police in the mining town of Linden are investigating the brutal murder of a 66-year-old remigrant who returned to Guyana just over a year ago and built his dream house. Dead is Kingsley Joseph whose blood soaked body was found at the back of his Wisroc, Linden yard with multiple stab wounds. According to police […]
A family of seven is now homeless after their lot 76 Sixth Street Alberttown house was completely destroyed by a fire on Saturday afternoon. The fire is believed to have been started by 4-year-old child who was allegedly playing with matches. Homeless are 91-years-old Enid Dubsbury who is visually impaired, her 54-year-old son, Edwin Oudkerk, […]
The Guyana Police Force on Friday announced the arrest of the suspect in the murder of three people at Tuschen on the East Bank of Essequibo. According to a police release, the canecutter who has been identified as Joshua Franklin was arrested by police on Friday morning in the Tuschen backdam. Cops believe he was […]
An apprentice attached to the Bosai Bauxite company in Linden was killed on Wednesday morning at the mining site when he was hit down and crushed by a heavy-duty truck. The dead worker has been identified as Bertram Pollard of Wismar. Details of the incident are sketchy. Just three weeks back a Bosai worker was […]
Traffic was brought to a halt on the Demerara Harbour Bridge just after 12noon on Christmas eve after a driver reported seeing a woman climb to the top of the rails of the bridge and jump off into the deep waters of the Demerara river. Rescue teams rushed to the area but were unsuccessful in […]
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