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The People’s National Congress Reform is looking at the possibility of hosting a virtual party congress this year, as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic could prevent a large in-person gathering. The Congress, which is due in April, will see elections for the leader and other top positions in the party. Two of the party’s executive members, […]
After being suspended for almost a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Guyana/Suriname ferry service is back in operation. The Government of Guyana has made the MB Sandaka available to ply the route as the Canawima ferry remains under repair. An agreement between the governments of Guyana and Suriname will see the service being […]
A Bartica miner who attacked and stabbed a Brazilian miner at a shop in the Black Water Backdam area, Cuyuni has died after he was stabbed to death by the same Brazilian man he attacked. Dead is 29-year-old Randolph Semple of Third Avenue, Bartica. A Police report of the incident explained that a Brazilian miner, […]
Police Investigators are keeping their eyes on a 23-year-old woman who was admitted to a city hospital with more than 70 cocaine-filled pellets in her stomach. She was also nabbed with a condom-wrapped package of cocaine in her vagina. The woman was arrested on Saturday at the Eugene F. Correia as she prepared to board […]
While the CEO of the Giftland Mall has declared victory and claims that the Court has ruled that he does not owe any taxes to the Georgetown City Council, the Attorney for the City Council Darren Wade is insisting that the Court made no such ruling. Chief Justice Roxanne George on Thursday dismissed the City’s […]
Acting on information, agents of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit carried out searches on a box of Guyanese ornaments that was being shipped out of the country and discovered a quantity of cocaine. The box which contained a Guyana Tourism book and various locally made craft pieces and ornaments was discovered with false sides. According […]
The Guyana Coast Guard and other local agencies have ended their search for the boat that was spotted offshore Guyana with several dead bodies aboard. The Ministry of Public Works confirmed that the suspension of the searches on the high seas took place today. Guyana has alerted Trinidad and Tobago and other Caribbean countries about […]
The father of one of the four Mazaruni Prison escapees has admitted to assisting the four men when they turned up at his Fourth Avenue, Bartica home. The man, Ralph Jones, told Police investigators that he first received a phone call from his son Rayon Jones, at around 9 pm on Tuesday, which was the […]
Police investigators have written to the Director of Public Prosecutions seeking advice as they prepare murder charges against a Berbice man who is accused of forcing his wife to ingest poison in front of their 3 small children. 28-year-old Ramesh Nandalall was originally charged with attempted murder as his wife was hospitalized. But the wife, […]
A husband and wife from Linden appeared in Court today to face charges of drug trafficking with their attempt to ship six pounds of cocaine out of Guyana in a box of fudge. 36-year-old Shaka Nunes and 45-year-old Vanica Williams appeared before the Chief Magistrate this morning. The husband, Shaka Nunes, immediately entered a guilty […]
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