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Almost four years after their arrests over a botched attempted robbery at Republic Bank on Water Street, three men walked free this morning after the presiding Magistrate accepted the no-case submission put forward by their Attorneys. Former Police Officers Anfernee Blackman and Gladstone George and former Republic Bank staffer Shawn Grimmond were charged in July […]
A 20-year-old Venezuelan woman died on the spot when the car she was in slammed into a power pole at Stewartville on the West Coast of Demerara. The dead woman has been identified as Julie Alejandro Brazen. Five other persons including four other Venezuelan women and the driver from Buxton are hospitalised with serious injuries. […]
More than three weeks after the Ministry of Health announced that it ran out of the second doses for the Sputnik V Coronavirus vaccine, Health Officials are still unable to provide any definite timeline for the arrival of the second dose. More than 100,000 persons are awaiting their 2nd dose of the Russian made vaccine. […]
Longtime member of the People’s National Congress Reform, Attorney Thandi McAllister has withdrawn her membership from the party over concerns over the party’s current leadership. McAllister who has also resigned from the Central Executive Committee of the party and its Region 3 Office in a statement this afternoon said she served the PNC for the […]
Two weeks after three patients of the New Amsterdam psychiatric hospital were badly burnt during a fire at the facility, one of the patients has died from his injuries. Family members have identified the dead patient as 38-year-old Wewoushi King of the East Coast of Demerara. King was first admitted to the New Amsterdam hospital […]
Still facing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the travel industry, regional carrier, Caribbean Airlines has announced its decision to retrench 450 workers across its network, representing 25% of the company’s workforce. After recording profits in 2018 and 2019, Caribbean Airlines recorded financial losses of more than US$109 million in 2020 and in the […]
Guyana has recorded three more COVID-19 related deaths and 123 new cases, according to the Ministry of Health. The majority of the new cases have been recorded in Regions 4, 6 and 9. There is growing concern that Region 9 which borders Brazil is seeing another spike in new cases of the virus. Region 4 […]
Police investigators are probing the stabbing death of a 23-year-old man at. Sandy Babb Street party late on Saturday night. The dead youth has been identified as Kawal Dindon. A 21-year-old suspect has since been arrested for the murder. A police report of the incident stated that the now-deceased man and two of his friends […]
A fire of unknown origin completely gutted a section of the North Ruimveldt Multilateral School on Saturday afternoon and the Education Minister has given the assurance that the school will be rebuilt. It was just after 1 o’clock on Saturday afternoon that heavy smoke was seen billowing from one of the main buildings at the […]
In wake of concerns expressed by the Opposition Leader about the Government’s purchase of the Sputnik COVID-19 vaccine, the Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Health, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy revealed today that a total of 61,000 persons have been fully vaccinated with the Sputnik vaccine. That simply means that the total number of people receiving […]
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