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With eighteen suspects still in custody for the deadly pirate attack on Guyanese fishermen in Suriname, there is still hope that those fishermen who are still missing will be found alive. Hope is however, fading as this week marks two weeks since the attack on the high seas in the neighbouring country. Guyana’s Public Security […]
Deputy Senior Superintendent of Police, Motie Dookie has returned to his job in that capacity, but will not longer serve as Head of the SWAT Unit. Acting Commissioner of Police, David Ramnarine, today confirmed Dookie’s return to work. Dookie was held for questioning last December when he was found traveling in a bus with smuggled alcohol, […]
Three weeks after the popular White Castle Fish Shop was gutted by fire, the reputed wife of the owner, Jermaine Langevine, found herself before a City Magistrate facing arson charges. The woman, Alexio Keizer, appeared before Magistrate Fabayo Azore at the Georgetown Magistrates Court and pleaded not guilty to setting the business place ablaze. The […]
With reports of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) planning to file more charges against former Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh and former Head of the Privatisation Unit Winston Brassington, the two former Government Officials spent several hours at the SOCU Headquarters this morning being questioned about their further involvement in the sale of several […]
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration called Tuesday for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to step down. “For the safety and security of all the peoples of Latin America, it is time for Maduro to go,” said the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley during a speech on Latin America. “I am not sure how we […]
Less than an hour after appearing in Court and being placed on $6 Million bail each for misconduct in public office, former Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh and former Head of the Privatisation Unit Winston Brassington posted bail and emerged declaring “we did nothing wrong.” Brassington and Singh left the Courthouse after bail was […]
A 70-year-old Guyanese man was today remanded to prison in Grenada after he made his first appearance in Court for trafficking of cocaine. Guyanese national Haniff Bacchus of Georgetown, a retired construction worker appeared at the St. George’s Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday 8th May after a quantity of cocaine was found in his wheelchair at […]
Former President of Guyana, Donald Ramotar, has described as “political vindictiveness”, the charges filed against his former Minister of Finance, Dr. Ashni Singh and the former head of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Ltd., Winston Brassington. The two men returned to Guyana overnight and appeared in Court this afternoon, where they were handcuffed and […]
Former Minister of Finance under the last PPP Civic Government Ashni Singh and former Privatisation Unit and NICIL Head, Winston Brassington both flew into Guyana overnight and made appearances in Court this afternoon to answer charges of misconduct in public office. The two former government officials were granted bail in the sum of $6 Million […]
As the Lindo Creek Massacre Commission of Inquiry hearing continued this morning, attention focused on alleged statements that were made to the Police by a former teenage member of the Fineman Criminal Gang. At the hearing this morning, Police Superintendent Trevor Reid recalled the youth recalling the murders at Lindo Creek and that recollection painted […]
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