By News Source Guyana on July 4, 2016
Caribbean & International, News, Politics
Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, used his statement at the opening of the CARICOM Heads of Government Meeting in Georgetown to wail into critics of the regional body. The Prime Minister lashed out at those who used the newspapers to talk about CARICOM being a comotose body, telling the […]
By News Source Guyana on July 4, 2016
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CARICOM Leaders gathered in Georgetown, Guyana for their 37th Regular Meeting, stood in silence and paid tribute to the former Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Patrick Manning, who died last Saturday. In paying tribute, CARICOM Secretary General, Ambassador Irwin LaRoque said he could not begin the meeting without first paying tribute to the late […]
By News Source Guyana on July 4, 2016
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(NY Daily News) A father of four and his 23-year-old girlfriend were found shot to death in a Brooklyn home Sunday afternoon, in what police are investigating as a murder-suicide. Police believe Christopher Pickering, 37, blasted Elizabeth Thompkins in the head in their Central Ave. home near Hancock St. in Bushwick, and then turned the […]
By News Source Guyana on July 4, 2016
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A suspected drug addict, who would do odd jobs outside the old GNCB building at Stabroek, ran and surrendered to the Police early Monday morning after stabbing another man to death during an argument. According to vendors, who were close by, the two men started an argument but were mostly ignored until it escalated and […]
By News Source Guyana on July 4, 2016
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A West Demerara woman is in police custody and claiming self defense after she stabbed her lover to death during a heated late Saturday night argument. The dead man has been identified as 42-year-old Frederick Peters. He was pronounced dead at the West Demerara hospital after being rushed there with stab wounds about his body. […]
By News Source Guyana on July 3, 2016
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The U.S Embassy here in Georgetown has been increasing the total number of visitors visas being issued to Guyanese nationals over the past few years and successful visa applicants are being encouraged to use their visas in keeping with the US Laws and not overstay their time in the U.S. Outgoing Deputy Chief of Mission […]
By News Source Guyana on July 3, 2016
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The Special Organised Crime Unit of the Guyana Police Force, has seized a number of documents from the home and business place of Permanent Secretary, Omar Shariff, as it continues to probe possible money laundering and tax evasion. Sources familiar with the investigations have told News Source that hundreds of millions of dollars have been […]
By News Source Guyana on July 3, 2016
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Guyana has joined the rest of the Caribbean region in extending sympathy and support to the people of Trinidad and Tobago on the death of former Prime Minister, Patrick Manning. In a statement on Saturday, the Government of Guyana, said “our nation shares in the deep sense of loss and grief which have overcome the […]
By News Source Guyana on July 2, 2016
Caribbean & International, News
(Trinidad Guardian) The People’s National Movement (PNM) has extended condolences to the wife and children of former party leader and prime minister Patrick Manning, following the announcement of his death at 8.15 AM this morning. In a release on social media, newly-appointed Public Relations Officer (PRO) Stuart Young said: “It was with a great sense […]
By News Source Guyana on July 1, 2016
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The Crane Housing Scheme man who brutally chopped his wife and 2-year-old son to death, while severing one of the hands of his mother has been apprehended by the Police and is under guard at the same Hospital, where the bodies of his wife and son are in the mortuary. Grieving family members are blaming […]