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The Guyana Police Force has announced that the second suspect in the Leonora double murder case has turned himself in, and is being questioned by investigators. 23-year-old Terry Thorma from Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara, surrendered to law enforcement at the Leonora Police Station in the presence of his Attorney, Dexter Todd on Monday evening. The […]
The Audit Office of Guyana will be undertaking a special audit into Old Age Pension books, as well as the Public Assistance booklets, according to Auditor General Deodat Sharma. Last week, the Ministry of Human Services announced the launch of a Police Force investigation into the presence of unauthorized copies of Old Age Pension and […]
Police investigators believe they have finally been able to close the case on the 2012 murder of 25-year-old Levoy Taljit, almost 12 years after his disappearance. In Court today, 46-year-old Ryvan Francis, was charged and remanded to jail for the murder of Taljit. He was not required to enter a plea to the indictable murder […]
Police investigators have travelled to Leonora on the West Coast of Demerara to investigate a double-murder incident which took place early this morning. The two dead persons have been identified as 30-year-old Mohamed Kalameeden Nasir of Stewartville and 25-year-old Arvinda Roopram, who was also from the Stewartville community. The two men were stabbed to death […]
27-year-old radio host and singer Shaima Muna, pleaded guilty today to trafficking more than 32 pounds of marijuana, hours after she was busted by the Police at Weldaad on the West Coast of Berbice. A police report stated that the Georgetown woman was arrested at around 5:47 this morning along the Weldaad Public Road during […]
Lawyers representing the interest of Rights Activist, Melissa Atwell aka “Melly Mel” and her mother, have written to the Acting Police Commissioner seeking information regarding a recent Police operation that was carried out at the home of the activist’s mother. The Police in a statement had indicated that the operation was based on intelligence received […]
With a 36-megawatt power ship connected to the national grid to boost the Guyana Power and Light’s General capacity and the recent purchase of several generating sets, frequent blackouts have returned and Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has expressed his concern over the problem. While GPL has blamed the recent outages on a number of issues […]
The Bahamas, Jamaica, Belize and Haiti are the CARICOM member states which have been listed by the US President as Major Drug Transit or Major Illicit Drug Producing Countries for Fiscal Year 2025. In a statement, The White House explained that a country’s presence on the list is not necessarily a reflection of its government’s […]
A total of 20 Venezuelans have been arrested and charged for illegally fishing in Guyana’s waters and operating unlicensed vessels in Guyana. The twenty were arrested earlier this week and appeared in Court on Tuesday and Wednesday. During their appearance, the Court was told that the twenty Venezuelans were arrested between the 20th August and […]
US-based, Guyanese Rights activist, and social media personality, Melissa Atwell aka Melly Mel, is accusing the Government of Guyana and the Guyana Police Force of trying to silence her by targeting and intimidating her family in Guyana. On Tuesday afternoon, a party of Policemen swooped down on the Eccles home of Atwell’s mother and grandmother […]
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