By News Source Guyana on March 18, 2014
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An Early morning fire of unknown origin has completely gutted the Ministry of Health Annexe at Lilliendaal on the East Coast of Demerara. The building which is also known as the Medex Building was located just next to the Ocean View Hotel’s Conference Centre. It housed a number of departments in the Health Ministry. Aided […]
By News Source Guyana on March 17, 2014
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POLICE in Barbados have arrested and charged 28-year-old Andrew Pollard, of Mahaica Gap, Green Hill, St Michael for the murder of Guyanese Onicka Gulliver. The partially nude and decomposing body of 23-year-old Gulliver, was found in a bushy area of Vaucluse, St Thomas last Friday after going missing from her Station Hill, St Michael home […]
By News Source Guyana on March 17, 2014
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(CBC) Police believe carbon monoxide caused the deaths of three members of the same Brampton, Ont., family early Monday when propane heaters were brought into the home after the furnace stopped working in frigid conditions. “It’s just a tragedy … a terrible situation,” Peel Regional Police Const. Fiona Thivierge told reporters Monday. Just before 2 […]
By News Source Guyana on March 15, 2014
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Police investigators late Friday night discovered the charred remains of a Port Kaituma mother and four of her children among the ashes of what was once her house in the same area. The woman and the 4 children were reportedly trapped in the house by her estranged husband who later set the house on fire […]
By News Source Guyana on March 14, 2014
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A woman and her four children were killed in a fire that ripped through their home and business place in Port Kaituma on Friday night. Reports out of the area suggest that the fire was started by the woman’s husband who trapped the four in the building. Persons in the area said the children could […]
By News Source Guyana on March 14, 2014
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Police in Barbados have arrested a man in connection with the death of a Guyanese woman on the island. The dead woman has been identified as Onicka Gulliver. Barbados Police on Friday said the woman’s body was found in the Parish of St. Thomas in a bushy area close to some empty plots of land. […]
By News Source Guyana on March 14, 2014
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking to pacify frustrated immigration advocates, President Barack Obama is directing the government to find more humane ways to handle deportation for immigrants in the U.S. illegally, the White House said Thursday. With prospects for an immigration overhaul in Congress appearing ever dimmer, immigration advocates have been ramping up pressure on Obama […]
By News Source Guyana on March 14, 2014
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Newly appointed Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Chief Election Officer (CEO)/Commissioner of National of National Registration, Keith Lowenfield, has promised to uphold, defend and promote the interest of the commission to the best of his ability, and act in full compliance with its policies. Lowenfield, a former army official and who served in various capacity […]
By News Source Guyana on March 13, 2014
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(Jamaica Observer) THE look on the face of entertainer Vybz Kartel when his guilty verdict was handed down yesterday said it all. The deejay, whose real name is Adidja Palmer, appeared drained and forlorn as he seemed to try to come to grips with the fact that he could be spending more than two decades behind […]
By News Source Guyana on March 13, 2014
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A post-mortem examination performed on the body of the 62-year-old Guyanese woman, Shirley Caesar who was found dead in New York after being missing for over a week, has ruled out murder as her cause of death. Relatives for the dead woman on Wednesday confirmed the findings of the post-mortem examination which was conducted on […]