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$90 Million and gun stolen in Bourda Post Office pension heist

After being taken as hostages,a policeman and a post office driver are being questioned following an early morning robbery at the busy downtown Bourda post office on Wednesday. Gunmen made off with over $90 Million in cash which should have been used for pension payments at the post office and a high powered rifle. According to […]

GT&T rolls out “More Speed” enhanced internet service

Promising increased speed at cheaper prices, the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company on Wednesday morning rolled out its faster internet service which is already available in some East Bank Demerara and East Coast communities. The increased and improved service now offers internet speed of up to 10 Megabits per second which is 10 times faster […]

US Embassy wants Kaieteur News to retract April Fool’s Joke

The United States Embassy in Georgetown on Wednesday took the unusual step in demanding a retraction of an April Fools Joke published by the daily Kaieteur News. The Kaieteur News April 1, 2015 edition carried a front page fictitious story indicating that “US revokes four Govt. Officials visas”, although the report never named the embassy […]

Headless body identified as Buxton woman; Arrest made in case

Almost one week after the headless and limbless body of a woman was found at the Annandale seawalls, investigators believe they have finally gotten a breakthrough in the case. The woman has now been identified as 40-year-old Samantha Benjamin, who was an overseas based Guyanese who also  lived in the community of Buxton. A man […]

Cocaine busted in 40 ft container of charcoal at SilverHill

Acting on intelligence information, members of the Container Control Programme and the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit moved in to a charcoal mining area at Silver Hill on the Linden Soesdyke Highway and busted a large quantity of cocaine among hundreds of bags of charcoal that was being prepared for shipment. The bust was made on […]

Berbice accident leaves three dead; WCD accident kills one

Police investigators are probing two tragic accidents that claimed the lives of four persons within the past 24 hours. Investigators in Berbice are hoping to question survivors of a late night crash at Golden Grove on the West Coast of Berbice. Three persons were killed in that accident while the driver and four others remain […]

Body on seawall identified as teenaged girl

The nude body which was found on the Turkeyen seawalls on Wednesday has been identified as that of 15-year-old high school student, Alicia Ali. The identification was made by her relatives who are still trying to understand the murder. The young woman was last seen on Tuesday night when she left her Cummings Lodge house […]

Woman’s nude body found at Turkeyen seawalls

The nude body of a woman was found on Wednesday midday on the rocks at the seawalls on the East Coast of Demerara in the Turkeyen area. The  woman has not been identified but  she appeared to have been in her early 30’s. Police investigators rushed down to the scene after being contacted and hurriedly […]

Prisoner badly chopped in Camp Street jail not taken to hospital

Family members of an inmate of the Camp Street jail are furious that prison authorities have not taken the man to the hospital after he was badly chopped about his body by two other inmates. A close relative of prisoner Tambico Mackenzie reached out to News Source to voice the family’s total dissatisfaction with the […]