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Technical Consultant, Davendra Rampersaud, who was accused of allegedly providing the Ministry of Health (MOH) with fake HIV testing kits walked out of Court as a free man today as the Magistrate dismissed the case due to insufficient evidence. Rampersaud was charged back in 2020 for allegedly supplying 400 units of expired HIV testing kits […]
37-year-old Civil Engineer Roberto Narine was today granted $200,000 bail after he was charged with causing the death of squash player Ian Mekdeci by dangerous driving. The accident occurred early in the morning on the 1st May. Narine appeared before Magistrate Leron Daly at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court where the charge was read to him. […]
Police investigators in the Rupununi region are investigating the murder of a farmer from the Deep Rupununi village of Bashaizon. The body of 59-year-old Cedric Jones is currently in the morgue at the Lethem hospital awaiting a post-mortem examination. According to information gathered by the police, Jones was involved in a fistfight with a 27-year-old […]
A young national squash player died in an accident early Sunday morning in the city when another vehicle slammed into the car he was in. Dead is 27-year-old Ian Mekdeci of Subryanville. He was a passenger in the car being driven by his friend when a drunk driver sped through the stoplight with his jeep […]
Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan has recused herself from presiding over the case currently before the Court against former Finance Minister Winston Jordan who is facing a charge of misconduct in public office, which is linked to the sale of a property by the former Government to the BK company. The Chief Magistrate announced at the […]
Family members of the two men found dead in a car in the parking lot of the Marriott Hotel are still making final funeral arrangements as they await the completion of the investigation and the green light from the Police for them to cremate the remains. While the Police have released the bodies to the […]
The body of 53-year-old Corentyne resident Waynumattie Permaul was this morning discovered in shallow grave in her Kilcoy Chesney yard, seven days after she went missing. The woman’s husband, Avemanen Permaul has since been arrested for the murder and has reportedly confessed to the crime. The murdered woman was the mother of Guyanese cricketer, Veersammy […]
A speeding mini-bus driver who lost control of his mini-bus while overtaking a car and slammed into a grader along the Uitvlugt public road has escaped with injuries that are not life-threatening. A number of his passengers also escaped with minor injuries while one passenger has been hospitalized. The Guyana Police Force said the accident […]
Police investigators in Region Seven are probing the murder of a Venezuelan woman, whose body was found with multiple chop wounds and partly buried in a shallow grave in the Eteringbang backdam. Investigators have identified the dead woman as Deissy Antury Perdomo. She worked in the bordering community of Eteringbang as a clothes vendor and […]
The Guyana Police Force is advising owners and drivers of vehicles to stop the practice of installing coloured lights on their vehicles or face prosecution. This past weekend, Police on the Essequibo Coast engaged in a ‘White Light Campaign’ where a number of vehicles were stopped and examined for coloured lights resulting in eleven vehicles […]
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