By News Source Guyana on March 22, 2021
Crime, News
Police investigators are reviewing surveillance camera footage as they try to identify the two men who executed popular biker and gold dealer, Ricardo Fagundes aka “Paper Shorts” outside the Palm Court nightspot on Sunday night. A video recording of the shooting captured by CCTV cameras at Palm Court shows Fagundes coming under a hail of […]
By News Source Guyana on March 22, 2021
News, Politics
Guyana is now expected to receive just 24% of the promised 100,000 doses of the coronavirus vaccine through the COVAX initiative, which falls under the World Health Organisation and other international groups. Initially, Guyana was informed by COVAX that it would be supplying the country with 100,000 doses of the vaccine as a first tranche. […]
By News Source Guyana on March 22, 2021
News, Politics
Two security guards who were attached to Kaieteur News were this morning charged and remanded to jail for murder over the beating death of a 58-year-old homeless man. The two security guards, Yan Licorish and Tony Waldron were not required to enter a plea to the indictable murder charge when they appeared before the Chief […]
By News Source Guyana on March 22, 2021
News
With weeks away from the hearing of the Elections petition case #88, the two petitioners in the case have filed their submissions. The submissions are in response to earlier submissions filed by Attorney General Anil Nandlall, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo, and Chief Elections Officer, Keith Lowenfield. The petitioners, Claudette Thorne and Heston Bostwick are asking […]
By News Source Guyana on March 22, 2021
Crime, News
Well-known biker Ricardo Fagundes aka “Paper Shorts” was shot dead after being hit down by a car outside the Palm Court nightspot on Sunday night. News Source understands that Fagundes was inside the night spot just after 9:30pm, when according to persons who were in the area, he left the nightspot to go on the […]
By News Source Guyana on March 19, 2021
Crime, News
A total of 7689 marijuana plants were destroyed by the Police today in the swamp lands aback the village of Yarrowkabra on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway. No one was found at the large farm but the Police Force reported that all of the plants were destroyed by fire. Some of the plants measured between three to […]
By News Source Guyana on March 19, 2021
News, Politics
The Ministry of Health has announced that it is currently monitoring the Region Four communities of Diamond on the East Bank of Demerara and Kitty in Georgetown for a cluster of new Coronavirus cases. There are currently more than 400 active coronavirus cases in Region 4 and according to the Health Minister, Dr. Frank Anthony […]
By News Source Guyana on March 19, 2021
Crime, News, Politics
A sixteen-year-old young man appeared at the Sparendaam Magistrates’ Court this morning and was charged with the murder of 10-year-old Anthony Cort during the course of a robbery. The teen has been in Police custody since last Friday as the investigation was launched into the shooting death of the 10-year-old boy in Sophia days before. […]
By News Source Guyana on March 19, 2021
Elections, News, Politics
With the two main political parties in Guyana both expressing interest in reforming the country’s electoral system, the Head of the EU Observer Mission for the 2020 elections believes it is something that the European Union could possibly lend assistance. In its final report of the March 2020 elections, the EU Observer Mission offered 26 […]
By News Source Guyana on March 19, 2021
News, Politics
Leader of the Opposition Joseph Harmon has written to the Chairman of CARICOM, Prime Minister Keith Rowley of Trinidad and Tobago, expressing several of the concerns of the Opposition about governance in Guyana. In his letter dated March 18, 2020, Mr. Harmon told Dr. Rowley it was necessary for him to raise, what he sees […]