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The Guyana Police Force on Monday filed a murder charge against taxi driver, Ranachal Singh, after he was fingered in allegedly assisting in the dumping of the body of Sophia resident, Simone Hackett, after she was stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend in the backseat of Singh’s taxi. The ex-boyfriend, Clevaughn Hamilton, was charged with […]
The Ministry of Tourism continues to pull in more sponsors as it gets ready to roll out the Jubilee Festival from May 19-22 as part of Guyana’s Independence celebrations. Today, Banks DIH Limited, Digicel Guyana and the Singer Department Store became the latest corporate sponsors of the event. According to the Ministry, the donations will […]
The 32-year-old man who was shot dead by a Yarrowkabra shopkeeper during a robbery attempt on Sunday, has been identified as the same man who was busted at New York’s JFK Airport with cocaine in cream liqueur in 2014. He was deported in 2015. The man, Raphael Armstrong called “Scar” was shot dead on Sunday night […]
The Solid Waste Department of the Georgetown City Council has proposed urgent considerations on licensing all private waste removers operating in the city. The move comes as the Department has found several private waste operators skipping the dumpsite and dumping garbage in areas close to the dumpsite and across parts of the city. According to […]
A suspected bandit who has been identified as Raphael Armstrong was shot dead by a Yarrowkabra shopkeeper during a robbery attempt on Sunday. According to reports it was just after 8:00pm on Sunday night that Armstrong and an accomplice entered the home of the shopkeeper and demanded money from him. The bandit and the shopkeeper […]
The People’s Progressive Party (PPP), which had one of its leaders describe local journalists as vultures, banned reporters and withhold government ads from the private newspapers during its time in office, is now expressing concern about censorship of the media in Guyana. In a Monday morning statement, the PPP said, persons of various political hues […]
As the government seeks to reduce the overcrowding at the Georgetown Prison on Camp Street, more prison blocks are to be built at the Mazaruni Prison to accommodate more inmates even as several have been moved to the Essequibo facility already. The Camp Street Prison was built to accommodate 600 prisoners but that population has […]
The 30-year-old ex-boyfriend of the Sophia woman who was found murdered in a Cummings Lodge trench has been charged for the woman’s murder. The man, Clevaughn Hamilton, called ‘Quarters,’ appeared at the Sparendaam Magistrates’ Court on Friday and was not required to plea to the indictable charge that he murdered 24-year-old Simone Hackett and dumped […]
Guyana is set to benefit from £53.2 million in grant resources from the United Kingdom under its newly established United Kingdom Caribbean Infrastructure Fund (UKCIF). Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan along with Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson and Minister of Communities, Ronald Bulkan, last week met with British High Commissioner Greg Quinn and representatives […]
Former Housing Minister under the PPP Government Irfaan Ali has lashed out at the Chairman of the Central Housing and Planning Authority, Hamilton Green following Green’s announcement that in excess of $100 million will have to be spent on fixing government houses with defects that were built during Ali’s time in office. The houses lined up […]
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