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The Customs Anti Narcotics Unit on Tuesday issued a Wanted Bulletin for shop keeper, Dawn Roberts of Georgetown. According to the wanted bulletin, the woman is wanted for questioning in connection with a cocaine bust at the Cheddi Jagan Airport last Saturday. She operates a shop at North Road, Bourda. News Source understands that the […]
All Caribbean Airlines flights from Georgetown, Guyana left without incident on Monday as the Cheddi Jagan Airport remained on high alert following a terror threat against a U.S bound Caribbean Airlines flight. Minister of Transport, Robeson Benn told the National Assembly on Monday afternoon that the Government of Guyana first learnt of the terror threat […]
Attorney-at-law and Chairman of the People’s National Congress, APNU Member of Parliament Basil Williams was elected as the new Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly on Monday. Williams takes up the post from former Member of Parliament Deborah Backer who resigned from the National Assembly last week because of an illness. Mr. Williams was unopposed […]
Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry on Monday denied bail to a 78-year-old Guyanese born, American man and a 38-year-old Guyanese woman who both appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates Court and were slapped with drug trafficking charges. Both persons were busted at the Cheddi Jagan Airport on Saturday with cocaine hidden in large packets of achar in […]
Barbadian authorities are expected to charge Guyanese born Captain Winston Leslie Fitzgerald Phillips in connection with the over five pounds of cocaine that was busted on a Panamanian registered vessel that stopped in Barbados after leaving Guyana last week. The 48-year-old Guyanese, captained the ship MV Rudisa Global, to Barbados and was in charge of its […]
The Opposition group, A Partnership for National Unity has settled on Medical Doctor, Karen Cummings as the replacement in the National Assembly for APNU member Deborah Backer, who officially resigned from the National Assembly last week to focus on her health as she recovers from an illness. Multiple sources in the APNU have confirmed the […]
Security and Intelligence officials in Guyana have confirmed that the terror threat which triggered heightened security at the Cheddi Jagan Airport came from Barbados. According to the officials who asked not to be named, Caribbean Airlines first received the threat over the weekend at its Barbados office in Bridgetown. “The threat came in the form […]
The Government of Guyana through the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) and the Ministry of Public Works have activated an emergency plan in wake of the U.S Embassy’s warning about “unconfirmed threat information” relating to Caribbean Airlines flights destined for the United States departing on Monday, February 10, 2014. In a statement late on Sunday night, […]
The U.S Embassy in Guyana on Sunday announced that it has received unconfirmed threat information relating to Caribbean Airlines flights destined for the United States departing on Monday, February 10, 2014. According to an emergency bulletin posted on the embassy’s website, “out of an abundance of caution, the Embassy advises all U.S. Citizens in Guyana […]
An elderly American man and a Guyanese woman have been taken into custody and will face drug trafficking charges in the new week after they were separately busted at the Cheddi Jagan Airport with more than 40 pounds of cocaine in their suitcases. The two were both outgoing passengers on a Caribbean Airlines New York […]
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