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Minister of Health Dr. Frank Anthony has announced that the Guyana Police Force is gearing up to go after persons who purchased fake vaccination cards as Health Authorities look to crack down on what appears to become a lucrative business in the Health sector. A number of healthcare workers have found themselves before the Courts […]
Two nurses attached to Diamond Health Centre on the East Bank of Demerara and a Screening Personnel attached to the Ministry of Health were today charged with fraud over their alleged sale of COVID-19 vaccination cards. The three healthcare workers were nabbed last week during a Police sting operation after investigators received information about the […]
The Alliance for Change which is one of the partners in the APNU+AFC Coalition, lambasted the PPP Civic Government today over the arrest of former Finance Minister Winston Jordan and the plan to file charges against him in relation to the sale of wharf facilities by the former Government to local contracting company, BK International. […]
An investigation by the Guyana Revenue Authority into the discovery of more than 1100 pounds of cocaine in a rum shipment from Guyana has revealed that when the shipment left Guyana, there were only boxes of rum in the container. The cocaine bust took place in The Netherlands. In a statement today, the GRA said […]
The Customs Anti Narcotics Unit is convinced that the cocaine which was found in a rum shipment from Guyana in The Netherlands, was placed in the shipment after it left Guyana. More than 1100 pounds of cocaine was found in the container of rum that originated in Guyana. However, the shipment made two stops for […]
A 28-year-old motorcyclist from Stanleytown Berbice, died on the spot on Saturday night when he lost control of his motorcycle and slammed into a concrete culvert. The dead youth has been identified as Rodrigues Anthon. A police report said the incident occurred as the young biker was riding his bike at a fast rate along […]
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 […]
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 […]
After spending more than five years behind bars on remand from the age of 19, for the murder of a fellow villager, a Yarakita youth admitted in Court today to stabbing another 19-year-old man to death while he was under the influence of alcohol. Murder accused, Ryan Albert appeared before Justice Jo- Ann Barlow this […]
A 54-year-old man from Enterprise on the East Coast of Demerara lost his life tragically this morning as a fire swept through his brother’s home. An alarm was raised about the fire just before 4 o’clock this morning at the Market Street Enterprise home of Surash Golchand. The brother who died was identified as Shwavash […]
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