By News Source Guyana on June 14, 2017
News
Police investigators at Linden are probing yet another fatal road accident. The latest accident took place at Half Mile, Wismar just before 11 o’ clock on Tuesday night. Dead is 38-year-old, Sherwin Hermanstein of 534 Canvas City, Wismar. Investigations have revealed that motorcar PSS 5865 driven by an Industrial Area, McKenzie resident, Ian Alli, was […]
By News Source Guyana on June 13, 2017
News
A Campbellville man, who was recently nabbed with over 24 Pounds of cocaine and and a number of unlicensed guns and ammunition, made his second appearance in Court today and switched his plea to guilty. 32-year-old Trevor Rodriguez told the Court that he did not want to waste the Court’s time. He made the plea […]
By News Source Guyana on June 13, 2017
News, Politics
Minister of Education, Dr. Rupert Roopnarine is to be transferred from that position to the Ministry of the Presidency, where he will take up a new ministerial position under that Ministry. Multiple government sources have told News Source that senior Government officials have been looking at the issue and the change is expected to take […]
By News Source Guyana on June 12, 2017
News, Politics
In a joint statement from the President and Opposition Leader, it was announced this evening that Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo, has agreed to submit a third list of nominees to President David Granger, for consideration for the post of Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission. The statement said the “parties agreed that it would be […]
By News Source Guyana on June 12, 2017
Crime, News
A 44-year-old woman who pleaded guilty to beating her 64-year-old landlord to death, was sentenced to eight years in jail today by Justice Navindra Singh. The sentence was handed down after the woman, Zaleena Whittington, entered a guilty plea to the lesser count of manslaughter. The incident took place back in 2013 at the man’s Vergenoegen […]
By News Source Guyana on June 12, 2017
Crime, News
The Guyana Police Force is urging all taxi drivers, especially those using the Toyota Allion and Premio motor cars to be on the alert for hijackers, who may be posing as passengers. According to a statement from the Police, the suspected hijackers are believed to be seven men. Two are believed to be afro-Guyanese, two […]
By News Source Guyana on June 12, 2017
Crime, News
The High Court today closed another chapter in the 2014 traffic light murder of city businessman, Ashok Raghu. The accused, Travis McDougal, who was found guilty of the businessman’s murder, was today sentenced to 25 years in jail. Justice Navindra Singh presided over the case. The convict clutched a Bible as he made his way […]
By News Source Guyana on June 12, 2017
Crime, News
A woman and the driver of a car that was nabbed with just over 25 pounds of marijuana, were among five persons arrested on the Aurora Public Road in Essequibo, this morning. Investigators have not released the names of any of those arrested. The bust was made just after 8 o’ clock this morning as […]
By News Source Guyana on June 11, 2017
News
An early afternoon fire which gutted the top flat of a Princes Street house has left four persons homeless. According to Divisional Commander of the Guyana Fire Service (GFS), Compton Sparman, the fire department received a call at about 2:45 on Sunday afternoon about the fire at lot 1515 Princes St Wortmanville. He said that […]
By News Source Guyana on June 9, 2017
Crime, News
Two young engineers have landed in hot water, after they were nabbed in a car with a packet of cocaine. The youths, Michael Sookoo and Aviskar Rambarran, who are both 20-years-old, appeared in court today and were remanded to prison after pleading not guilty to drug possession. The case is that they were nabbed on […]