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Police detectives are investigating the savage beating death of a Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara man. The incident took place just after 2 o’ clock on Sunday morning at Lusignan on the East Coast of Demerara. According to a police report the dead man has been identified as 18-year-old Budhan who is also known as […]
As concern continues to mount about the high number of human trafficking cases in Guyana, the Guyana Women Miners Association has once again gone to the rescue of teenage girls who have found themselves in human trafficking situations in the gold mining district working as prostitutes. On Saturday, officials from the Women Miners group moved […]
Two West Coast Demerara men were killed on Sunday morning in a hit and run accident as they walked home just after morning prayers in the Meten-meer-zorg community on the West Coast of Demerara. The two dead men have been identified as 56-year-old Juman Ali of De Willem Village and 51-year-old Hasid Mohammed Bulla of […]
The Bank of Guyana on Friday officially launched the $5000 note, in keeping with the Currency Reform Process, and will come into circulation on December 9, 2013. The face side of the note carries the map of Guyana with its natural resources, while the reverse portrays the national bird and the rainforest. It measures 156 mm x […]
The University of Guyana (UG) Turkeyen Campus on Saturday churned out another batch of 1,376 graduates in various fields at its 47th Convocation ceremony. The event was attended by Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, who is currently performing the functions of President. This annual event has always been one of grandeur; however, this year, it was even […]
The Board of Directors of Demerara Distillers Limited on Saturday announced the retirement of its chairman, Dr. Yesu Persaud. At a Pegasus Hotel press briefing on Saturday morning, Director at DDL, Ambassador Rudy Collins said the Board of the company had accepted Dr. Persaud’s notice of retirement. The retirement takes effect from December 31, 2013. […]
A 32-year-old Guyanese woman was busted at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport on Saturday morning with cocaine in the false sides of her suitcases. The woman who has been identified as Shellon Kandhai was an outgoing passenger who was about to board a flight to New York. Agents of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit made […]
A former Army Officer who had run afoul of the law on several occasions was gunned down execution style early on Saturday morning in his white Toyota motor car outside the Edge nightclub on Main Street in Georgetown. 20-year-old Denzil Mingo of Third Street, Alberttown had just gone into his car after leaving the nightclub […]
A Guyanese man who may have left the country without the knowledge of his family is the latest person from these shores to be charged in the United States with drug trafficking. 31-year-old Joseph Alpha Lewis was slapped with drug trafficking charges on Tuesday in Brooklyn, New York after he was busted at the JFK […]
The owner of a city Brothel was found murdered on Thursday morning in one of the rooms in his establishment, leaving family members and close friends stunned over his death and the way he was killed. Sixty-one year old Joseph Jagdeo aka “Uncle Joey” was found with his hands and feet tied and his mouth […]
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