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Embattled Assistant Police Commissioner, Calvin Brutus, was back in Court today to face the remaining 201 charges filed against him on allegations of fraud and money laundering. When Brutus made his first Court appearance on October 24 to face the initial 31 charges, he appeared before the Acting Chief Magistrate dressed in his uniform. However, […]
A 40-year-old chainsaw operator from Hillfoot Squatting area on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway died tragically early this morning after being attacked, robbed, beaten and stabbed by a group of men. Police identified the dead man as Davanan Hosea. The Police said the incident took place at around 1:35 this morning. The Police report stated that Davanan […]
Two days after she was brutally chopped about her body, 28-year-old Thagewante Motie of Mahaica, East Coast Demerara succumbed to her injuries on Saturday afternoon at the Georgetown Hospital, after undergoing multiple surgeries. Her assailant, 26-year-old, Uram Doorbassa, passed away on Friday at the same Georgetown Hospital. He was admitted there after ingesting a poisonous […]
Tragedy gripped an E-Field, Sophia area on Saturday morning, when a fire that was accidentally set by two young children playing with matches, claimed the life of their 11-month-old sister, Melveena Blair, and completely destroyed the family small wooden home. One of the two young children who survived the fire is hospitalised with serious burn […]
The Alliance for Change sees the non release of the report on the 2022 Population and Housing Census as unacceptable, and the party wants the report released soon. AFC Leader Nigel Hughes expressed his disappointed on Friday over the situation. “It is completely unacceptable, completely unacceptable that we are now almost to the end of […]
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), in coordination with the DEA Georgetown Country Office, conducted two training courses on Basic and Advanced Narcotic Investigations with local law enforcement. The training, which was hosted by the Guyana Police Force, was attended by 35 officers representing several agencies including the Guyana Police Force (GPF), Guyana Defense Force […]
The High Court has awarded Opposition Member of Parliament, David Patterson the sum of $1.2 Million in addition to costs, in the case that he brought against the State after being barred from leaving the country in September 2023. The decision was handed down today by acting Chief Justice Roxane George, according to Attorney Nigel […]
Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has come out in defense of the Government’s decision to rent a second power ship to supply additional power to the national grid, telling reporters on Thursday that the costs to rent the ships are not significantly higher than the cost to generate power by GPL. Chairman of the Alliance For […]
High Court Judge, Nigel Niles, on Wednesday handed down his ruling in the Quindon Bacchus wrongful death case, ordering the State to pay to the estate of Mr. Bacchus the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) for his funeral expenses, twenty two million, five hundred thousand dollars ($22,500,000) as damages for the breach of his […]
The Inter-American Human Rights Commission held a hearing today on the impact of Gender based violence on migrant, sex worker and transgender women in Guyana. The Commission heard of multiple instances where migrant women are trafficked in the interior region and are afraid to seek redress because many of them do not have permits to […]
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