By News Source Guyana on November 12, 2016
Crime, News
A 66-year-old East Coast of Demerara man is nursing gunshot wounds to both of his feet after one of his tenants opened fire on him during an argument. Police investigators say they are making efforts to apprehend the thirty-year-old tenant who did the shooting. The man reportedly shot the landlord multiple times to his legs after […]
By News Source Guyana on November 12, 2016
News
As part of a Joint Services operation aimed at stemming the current crime problem and rooting out a reported “credible domestic threat”, members of the Police Force and Guyana Defence Force launched an early morning search at the Georgetown and New Amsterdam prisons. The searches were launched simultaneously and started just after 5:00am. At the […]
By News Source Guyana on November 11, 2016
Crime, News
Citizens across the country are being asked not to be alarmed by the increased presence of Police officers and members of the Guyana Defence Force in several communities and across the city from Saturday as the Joint Services begin a major push back against the current crime situation dogging the country. In a statement on […]
By News Source Guyana on November 11, 2016
Crime, News
A female Finance Department staffer at the cash strapped Guyana Sugar Corporation was arrested on Friday morning by investigators from the Criminal Investigations Department. She is suspected of carting off millions of dollars in cash from the company. Acting Crime Chief, Hugh Jessemy, confirmed the arrest to News Source. He said he would not be […]
By News Source Guyana on November 11, 2016
Crime, News
The Guyana Police Force on Friday issued a wanted bulletin for a 33-year-old Bel Air man as it widened a multi-million dollar fraud probe at Scotia Bank, Carmichael Street. The wanted man has been identified as Vishaul Moonilal. His last known addresses were given as 44 Bel Air Park, Georgetown and 44 Houston, East Bank […]
By News Source Guyana on November 11, 2016
News
Gunshots rang out in the Albouystown community early on Friday morning and when they ended, a South Ruimveldt man was found dead. The dead man has been identified as 27-year-old Michael Junior Payne of South Ruimveldt. Acting Police Commander for A’ Division, Calvin Brutus, told the media that it was just after 6:30 on Friday […]
By News Source Guyana on November 10, 2016
News
The curtains came down on the JOF Haynes Memorial Inter-Secondary Schools debating competition today, with round three of the national competition. The Annandale Secondary School emerged victorious. The Annandale Secondary School argued against the moot ‘Dysfunctional families are a direct result of weak parenting skills’ whilst the New Amsterdam Multilateral Secondary proposed the moot. Assistant […]
By News Source Guyana on November 10, 2016
News
The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) of the Ministry of Communities continues the distribution of its home improvement subsidy to eligible persons across the country. On Wednesday, 50 Berbice residents received their subsidy. Region Six is recorded as one of the regions with the highest number of persons qualifying for the home improvement subsidy. […]
By News Source Guyana on November 10, 2016
News
Local Parliamentarian and Bishop of Outreach Ministries International, Juan Edghill, is the first preacher to publicly pronounce on that sex scandal involving Head of Beacon Ministries International, self-proclaimed Pope, Dr. Philbert London. Bishop Edghill told reporters on Thursday that as a man of God, he would want to apologise to those offended by the scandal. […]
By News Source Guyana on November 10, 2016
News, Politics
A delegation from the British Parliament is in Guyana working with local Parliamentarians in several areas, including anti-corruption. Through a Parliament on Anti-Corruption Forum, efforts are being made to explore the role and responsibilities of Parliamentarians in identifying and understanding corruption, and building the legislative capacity of Guyana in tackling corruption through the evolution of […]