By News Source Guyana on August 20, 2018
Crime
Months after a Police service weapon went missing from the Brickdam Station, a 21-year-old Police Constable, Cornell Paul was today charged with the offence of larceny. However, he was granted bail in the sum of $150,000.= The court heard that on the 3rd February, at the Brickdam Police Station, the young Constable allegedly stole the […]
By News Source Guyana on August 20, 2018
Crime, News
The Guyana Police Force today announced the arrest of an interdicted Cadet Officer of the Force who allegedly threatened his reputed wife to shoot her. Earlier this year, the man, Franz Paul, had a criminal charge against him dismissed when he compensated the victim and the victim no longer offered evidence against him. That victim […]
By News Source Guyana on August 20, 2018
News, Politics
Hours after being declared the new Chairperson of the People’s National Congress Reform, Public Health Minister Volda Lawrence, was back at her party’s headquarters to host the Congress of its women’s arm, the National Congress of Women. She spoke to News Source during the lunch break and laid out some of her plans for the […]
By News Source Guyana on August 20, 2018
News, Politics
Though she is still to decide on whether she will seek her party’s backing to be its next Presidential Candidate for the 2020 elections, Opposition Chief Whip and longtime PPP Executive Member Gail Teixeira, admits that Volda Lawrence’s rise to the Chairmanship of the People’s National Congress, might be a push for her to seek […]
By News Source Guyana on August 20, 2018
News, Politics
As the countdown begins to the November 12 Local Government Elections, the Opposition, People’s Progressive Party is raising concern with the Guyana Elections Commission about a recent decision by the Minister of Communities to declare Mahdia as a new town and add a number of new Neighbourhood Democratic Councils in several areas. The PPP at […]
By News Source Guyana on August 20, 2018
News, Politics
Longtime member of the People’s National Congress Reform, Volda Lawrence has been elected as the new Chairperson of the party, the second highest position in Guyana’s second oldest political party. The results of the elections were announced just after midnight. Lawrence replaces fellow party member, Basil Williams, who was hoping to be re-elected to the […]
By News Source Guyana on August 19, 2018
News, Politics
A motion put forward by the Atlanta Chapter of the People’s National Congress for the name of late President Forbes Burnham to be added to the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, has been forwarded to a Special Committee of the party. The suggestion was made during Saturday’s session at the ongoing Biennial Congress of the People’s […]
By News Source Guyana on August 19, 2018
Sports
(CPL) Guyana’s Shimron Hetmyer blasted the third fastest Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) century of all time as Guyana Amazon Warriors recorded a thumping 72-run victory over Jamaica Tallawahs, who lost their last eight wickets for just 35 runs in Florida. The Tallawahs had won their first three matches of the tournament but were blown […]
By News Source Guyana on August 19, 2018
Crime
A Surinamese woman will be facing drug trafficking charges in the local Courts in the new week after she was busted in the Corentyne area with a quantity of cocaine and ecstasy pills in her possession. The woman’s name has not been released but she has been described as a hairdresser from Parimaribo, Suriname. The […]
By News Source Guyana on August 19, 2018
Crime, News
Over the past few days, the Joint Services have been conducting raids at the prisons across the country and those searches have exposed some of the “delicacies” prisoners have been enjoying. During a search at the Lusignan Prison on Friday morning, six bottles of hot pepper sauce were found along with body building tonics, mini […]