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Guyanese granny goes missing in Queens, NY

Relatives of a 62-year-old Guyanese woman are keeping their fingers crossed and are praying for her safe return after the woman went missing last Wednesday, March 5th in Queens, New York. Her name is Shirley Caesar and she was last seen leaving her Brooklyn apartment to visit a bank in the Queens area to transact […]

16-year-old killed in West Bank accident

The Guyana Police Force announced on Tuesday morning that it had launched an investigation into a fatal accident that occurred at about 4 o’ clock on Tuesday morning  on the Goed Fortuin Public Road, West Bank Demerara. 16-year-old Jomal Archer of Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara was killed in the accident and at least three other […]

Three Air traffic controllers sent on leave pending CJIA investigation

The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority has indicated that three persons attached to the Air Traffic Control department at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport have been sent on leave pending the outcome of the investigation into the Saturday morning incident at the airport when an air traffic controller left the post unmanned even as a Caribbean […]

Security is key to CARICOM’s development -T&T PM

(CARICOM)   Immediate Past Chair of the Caribbean Community, the Hon. Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Monday underscored the critical importance of deepened integration and security to the sustainable development of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). In her address to the opening session of the 25th Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM, underway in […]

Rohee complains of Opposition “bullying”

General Secretary of the Peoples Progressive Party, Clement Rohee, used the 17th death anniversary memorial for late President and Party Leader Dr. Cheddi Jagan to complain about the Opposition’s majority in the National Assembly and the impact the majority has been having on the Government.  Mr. Rohee told the party faithful who gathered at Babu […]

Guyanese man seen as ringleader in JFK mailbag scam

Court documents and the complaint released by the District Attorney for Queens County in New York reveal that Guyanese Michael Williams aka Mike Bigz may have been the ringleader and the brainchild behind the baggage scam at New York’s JFK airport which resulted in five persons including Williams and another Guyanese man being charged for […]

CARICOM Leaders meet in St. Vincent

(CARICOM)  Heads of Government of 14 Member States and two Associate Members will gather in St Vincent and Grenadines on Monday at the 25th Intersessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Suriname’s President, His Excellency Desiree Bouterse, who is the current President of the Union of South American […]

Former Beauty Queen assaulted in Police Station

Former Miss Guyana Finalist and local model Ali Williams is fuming after she was dragged and physically assaulted at the Providence Police Station by a policeman as her helpless children watched on. The incident took place on International Women’s Day, Saturday March 9, and Williams wants charges to be filed against the police officer who […]