By News Source Guyana on April 28, 2016
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U.S carrier, Dynamic International Airways and Guyana’s Roraima Airways are making moves to work closer together in an effort to make Guyana’s Cheddi Jagan International Airport a hub for Guyana’s neighbouring travelers. Dynamic currently operates four weekly flights from New York to Georgetown and that schedule is expected to increase in the future. According to […]
By News Source Guyana on April 27, 2016
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Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum is denying the involvement of police investigators in any attempt to politically persecute citizens. Mr. Blanhum on Wednesday, threw cold water on the accusations which have arisen following the police’s move to investigate the murder of one political activist and the assault of at least two others. Two of the cases […]
By News Source Guyana on April 27, 2016
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Proposals for raising the age of criminal responsibility from 10-years-old and establishing separate remand homes for boys and girls have come to the fore as Guyana considers a new Juvenile Justice Bill. With the help of the UNICEF Office in Guyana, the Ministry of Public Security hosted the first of three public consultation sessions on […]
By News Source Guyana on April 27, 2016
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Dynamic International Airways has joined the celebrations for Guyana’s golden jubilee with the unveiling of the logo for the national celebration as well as the New York celebration on its aircraft. The U.S registered airline currently operates a number of weekly flights between New York and Georgetown. It has been in the market for the […]
By News Source Guyana on April 27, 2016
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A suspected bandit is nursing gunshot wounds to his face after being shot by the owner of a Georgetown store. Police Investigators have reported that at about 3:30am on Wednesday, licensed firearm holder and owner of the A and N Electronic Store, shot and injured a burglar to his face. According to the police, the […]
By News Source Guyana on April 27, 2016
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Former Presidential Information Liaison under the PPP, Kwame McCoy was on Wednesday slapped with three charges for actions meted out against Political Activist Mark Benchcop back in March 2011. McCoy appeared at the Providence Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Lerone Daly and was granted bail in the sum of $275,000. He was granted $200,000 bail for […]
By News Source Guyana on April 26, 2016
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Quick action by the Guyana Police Force in the Mazaruni area has resulted in the arrest of two men who robbed a miner of a large quantity of raw gold after they brutally chopped him about the body. The man survived the injuries. According to a Police report, 42-year-old miner, Neil Jordan, of Bartica, Essequibo, […]
By News Source Guyana on April 26, 2016
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The East Bank Essequibo woman, Bibi Safoora Salim, who allegedly used her Facebook page to issue a death threat against the President was granted bail in the sum of $200,000 in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday as she appeared in court to face charges related to the social media post. The 52-year-old woman appeared before […]
By News Source Guyana on April 26, 2016
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Almost four years after the gruesome September 2012 murder of an Anna Catherina mother and her two sons, the man who lived next door, was on Tuesday charged and remanded to prison for the crime. Thirty – one – year old Barber, Abishai Caesar, appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate, Rochelle Liverpool and […]
By News Source Guyana on April 26, 2016
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A Guyanese man was killed and another critically injured in a shooting incident in San Fernando, Trinidad on Monday. The dead man was identified as Guyanese national Kemraj Persad, 30, a construction worker, of Hummingbird Avenue, Duncan Village. According to a report in the Trinidad Guardian, Eyewitnesses said Persad, and another man identified as Sean […]