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Brits to train officers of Special Organised Crime Unit

(GINA)  A Memorandum of Understanding signed between the Government of Guyana and the United Kingdom has paved the way for training and mentoring for the staff of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) created by the government to investigate money laundering crimes.  Signing on the ruling administration’s behalf on Monday was Head of the Presidential […]

High Court grants injunction against Speaker’s accuser

The High Court on Monday afternoon granted an injunction barring the young man who has made sex abuse claims against the Speaker from publishing, whether in print or electronic media, any material relating to the allegations that he has made against the Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman. The young man Johnny Anthony Welshman, […]

23-year-old woman stabbed to death by boyfriend who laters surrenders

A 29-year-old dental technician from the West Coast of Demerara is in custody after he brutally stabbed his 23-year-old girlfriend to death at the woman’s West Coast home during an argument on Sunday. Dead is Rajkumarrie Persaud from Hague on the West Coast of Demerara. Her assailant has been identified as a dental technician who […]

“I am not his Attorney” -Jaya Manickchand distances self from young man claiming sex abuse by Speaker

Attorney-at-Law Jaya Manickchand, who is the sister of Education Minister Priya Manickchand, has denied being retained by the young man who has filed a police complaint claiming that he was sexually molested when he was younger, by the Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman. The Speaker has since denied the allegations and has called […]

AFC unearths “plot to tarnish its Leaders” with sex abuse claims

The opposition party, Alliance For Change on Sunday said it has uncovered a plot by the governing People’s Progressive Party to attack and tarnish its leaders. According to a Sunday statement from the AFC, the party is “now in receipt of information that a completely fabricated accusation of sexual abuse of a minor is being […]