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The Brooklyn man accused of stabbing his wife and her new lover to death when he caught them having sex in a car was acting in self-defense, his lawyer claimed Friday. Steve Whittingham was attacked by his wife’s panicked new flame when he came across them in a car outside Spring Creek Towers near Seaview […]
Guyana has been placed on the Top 20 list of countries with the highest murder rate in the world. In a report released by the United Nations and the World Health Organisation which examines the homicide rate in countries among every 100,000 persons, Guyana ranked #15 with 20.2 murders for every 100,000 persons. The report […]
As Guyana gears up for early elections in 2015, the Guyana Elections Commission has announced that the 7th cycle of continuous registration that is currently underway will come to an end on December 31, 2014. The registration period should have come to an end in February, 2015 but with the President getting ready to announce […]
Drug pushers in Guyana continue with their efforts to get the cocaine out. While they may be successful at times getting the cocaine pass the Cheddi Jagan Airport, law enforcement officers at New York’s JFK Airport are paying extra close attention to flights from Guyana and they have been yielding successes in their drug fight. […]
(National Post) Guyanese Christopher Husbands had a busy day on June 2, 2012. He had lunch with an old teacher. He smoked some pot. He bought a new jacket. And then, while waiting for his girlfriend to pay for dinner, he murdered two men. On Dec. 17, one week to the day before Christmas Eve, […]
(New York Daily News) The stabbing death of a man whose naked body was found outside a Brooklyn apartment building was the result of a sordid love triangle that ended in two killings, not one — and the arrest of a suspect Thursday. Jerome Barrett, 35, of East New York is believed to have been […]
(GINA) The men and women who serve in the nation’s joint services are to receive an extra month’s salary, President Donald Ramotar, announced when he addressed hundreds of soldiers, at Camp Stephenson, Timehri on Thursday as they participated in their annual Christmas luncheon. The President noted that it was his first visit to the base […]
Police at Tuschen on the East Bank of Essequibo are hunting for a cane cutter after he reportedly murdered his former mother-in-law, his young child and his ex wife’s new boyfriend. They were all chopped to death. The man reportedly also chopped his ex-wife who is in a critical condition. The incident took place early […]
A Partnership for National Unity Member of Parliament and Shadow Minister of Legal Affairs, Attorney Basil Williams is confident that the Chief Justice of Guyana will grant a Conservatory Order to block the government from further unapproved spending and further spending on projects that were disapproved by the National Assembly. Mr. Williams who is part […]
(NY Daily News) WASHINGTON — The United States will normalize diplomatic relations with Cuba, opening an embassy in Havana, and easing trade and travel restrictions in move that ends more than a half century of estrangement with the long-communist island. President Obama announced the breakthrough in a noontime speech while Cuban President Raul Castro, the […]
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