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A 48-year-old man from West Ruimveldt died on Saturday afternoon after sustaining injuries in a vehicular accident along the Mocha Arcadia access road on the East Bank of Demerara. Dead is Euclin Joseph. According to a Police statement, Joseph and three others were passengers in a car being driven by 21-year-old Aaron Rodrigues who is […]
Just over one pound of cocaine was found neatly stashed in five sealed brown envelopes with Christmas cards at the Post office in Georgetown. The cocaine-filled cards were destined for Brooklyn, New York. The bust took place on Friday. In a statement, the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit said the cocaine carried a total weight of […]
Guyana Water Incorporated has announced that it will be restarting its disconnection campaign in time for the holiday season when there is usually an increase in demand for water. The countrywide campaign, ‘Let it Flow and Keep the Glow’, is targeting customers with outstanding balances as well as current charges, according to the company. “To […]
There is a growing number of pregnant women who are becoming ill with the COVID-19 and require hospitalisation, according to Health Minister Frank Anthony. Currently, more than half of the persons who are hospitalized with the virus at the Infectious Diseases hospital at Lilliendaal are pregnant women. The worrying trend has prompted the Minister of […]
A taxi driver who was charged four years ago with causing the death of a couple by dangerous driving, met his demise this morning in an accident along the Linden/Soesdyke Highway. Dead is 29-year-old Mark Cameron of Guyhoc Park, Georgetown. A police report said Cameron was driving a motor car along the Linden/Soesdyke highway at […]
Opposition Leader Joe Harmon this afternoon responded to President Irfan Ali’s early morning statement which justified the Government’s imposition of the 7% increase for public servants. In defending the increase, the President said public servants are better off under the current government than they were under the previous one. Opposition Leader Joe Harmon who served […]
The Private Sector Commission is following the government in linking two recent fires at two police buildings to political activists outside of Guyana. In a statement issued this morning, the PSC said it has noted a spate of fires across the city, adding that the fires represent an obvious threat to the maintenance of law […]
Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly and Leader of the Liberty and Justice Party, Lenox Shuman has claimed that his job as an Aviation Advisor to the government was recently threatened because of Facebook posts that he made criticizing the government. In a post on his official Facebook page, Mr. Shuman explained that “I made […]
President Irfaan Ali did an address to the nation this morning from the lawns of State House to justify his Government’s imposition of a 7% salary increase for public servants saying that public sector workers are better off under his administration than they were under the former APNU+AFC government, although the former government raised the […]
Drama unfolded in the Wales Magistrates’ Court this midday when a Colombian national who is facing an assault charge, jumped over the prisoner’s deck and attacked his accuser, choking her until being pulled away by a Policeman. He was in handcuffs at the time. The entire incident occurred in front of the Magistrate who was […]
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