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GT&T shakes up marketing and sales department with layoffs

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company on Tuesday began to put in place a restructuring plan of the company’s sales and marketing department. Four staff members of sales and marketing have been told that their services are no longer required with the company. Another staff member from another department was also told Tuesday was her […]

More eyewitnesses dispel police account of Soesdyke shooting death

More eyewitnesses are coming forward to dispel the Guyana Police Force’s report that Diamond resident Ryan Couchman was shot by an off duty police officer during a robbery. One eyewitness who spoke to News Source on the condition of anonymity said Couchman was intoxicated when he was shot multiple times to his body by the […]

Container with cocaine on ship from Suriname busted in Guyana

Agents from the Police Force, the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit and the Guyana Police Force have launched a massive investigation after a large quantity of cocaine was found on a vessel that arrived in Guyana from Suriname. The vessel MV Deltadiep, was being tracked in the Demerara river since it arrived from Suriname. It was […]

Security guard dies while trying to jump work site fence

A 64-year old security guard attached to the Best Buy Auto Sales company in Queenstown, Georgetown was found dead early on Sunday morning dangling from the top of the fence of the compound where he worked. He has been identified as Hamjad Ali. Police investigators were called to the auto sales company just before 7 […]

Linden Miner stabbed to death during worksite row

Police  at Linden have moved into the Upper Demerara area of Frenchman to investigate the worksite murder of a 41 year old miner who lives in Wismar Linden. The dead man has been identified as Seibert Moore of Victory Valley Wismar. He was stabbed to death in a mining pit at the worksite of the Empire […]

Hicken, James and Chapman now Assistant Police Commissioners

The Guyana Police Force has announced several promotions and A Division Commander Clifton Hicken, Crime Chief Leslie James and B Division Commander Marlon Chapman have topped the promotion list and will all now serve as Assistant Commissioners of Police. See full list of promotions below. The following promotions have been approved by the Police Service Commission: […]

Granger lost for words over comparison to Hitler and Saddam Hussein

The Political campaign season may only now be getting started but Opposition Leader David Granger is expressing shock over the distribution of flyers in certain parts of the country, which compares him to Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein. Both Hitler and Saddam Hussein were dictators who murdered their own people. The flyers have been distributed […]

Granger lambastes Ramotar over series of “feral blasts”

Leader of the Opposition David Granger believes President Donald Ramotar ought to apologise for several “feral blasts” he has made over the past three years against various Guyanese citizens. Speaking at the APNU’s first press conference for the year, Mr. Granger said President Ramotar has degraded the “high office of President of the Republic with […]

Murders mark end of old year and beginning of new year

The Guyana Police Force has found itself investigating a number of murders on the first day of the new year. According to a police report, on Old Year’s Night, Wednesday December 31, 2014 33-year-old Errol Campbell of Ann’s Grove, ECD, was involved in an altercation with two other men at Ann’s Grove during which he […]