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The Guyana Police Force is reporting this morning that 2013 saw a 7% increase in serious crimes in Guyana. According to the Police Public Relations office, Guyana recorded 154 murders in 2013 which marks an 11 percent increase over the previous year. 61 of those murders were of the disorderly type, 24 were committed during […]
Despite the urging of some in the private sector and the political opposition, the Government of Guyana is still not giving its support to the USAID Democracy project which the US government intends to proceed with in Guyana without the Government’s assistance. The Government’s Chief Spokesman, Dr. Roger Luncheon on Wednesday insisted that the administration […]
Former General Manager for Public Relations at the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company, Terry Holder has died. Mr. Holder passed away on Wednesday at his Georgetown home where he was ailing for a while. Holder spent decades in the communications and broadcasting fields in Guyana and the Caribbean. He was the first Programme Director of […]
58-year-old Trinidadian born, Canadian citizen Edward James was remanded to prison on Wednesday when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court and was charged with trafficking narcotics. According to the Prosecution’s case, Edward James on Tuesday 7th January, 2014 was busted at the Cheddi Jagan airport with close to 20 pounds of cocaine stashed in […]
Over 20 Guyanese who have been deported from the United States arrived on a special US Charter flight on Tuesday under US Border security guard. The special flight arrived at the airport in the afternoon to deliver the deportees. It may have also made a number of stops in some Caribbean islands before it made […]
A Canadian man who was in-transit at the Cheddi Jagan International on his way to Canada was busted on Tuesday afternoon with over 20 pounds of cocaine in the false bottoms of his suitcases. According to reports the man arrived in Guyana on a Caribbean Airlines flight and was about to board his connection to […]
Police Detective constable Seeburn Elias was shot dead on Monday evening as he attempted to arrest a young man who had earlier escaped police custody at the Georgetown Hospital. According to a police report just after 7 pm on Monday, 23 year old prisoner Delon Abrams who was under police guard seeking treatment at the […]
The Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) will be closed to vehicular traffic from 10 o clock on Wednesday night up to 4 am on Thursday, to facilitate repairs after a vessel collided with the bridge, causing damage. Currently the structure is closed to marine traffic and is expected to resume contractions for river vessels on Thursday. General […]
Home Affairs Minister, Clement Rohee has revealed that since its launching in May of 2013, his ministry I paid a bribe website has received 58 reports against employees in nine government agencies from persons who anonymously admitted to paying bribes. According to Rohee, the reports have been sent to the agencies fingered for them to […]
Police on Sunday said they were investigating the brutal stabbing death of 72-year-old Mahaicony farmer Deoroop Sieuchand. The elderly man was left to die in his home as his wife was also badly beaten by bandits who invaded their home on Saturday night into early Sunday morning. A 10-year-old child who was also in the […]
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