By News Source Guyana on November 28, 2014
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The Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority Khurshid Sattaur intends to investigate reports that the private jet which was busted in Puerto Rico with hidden cash, was not searched by customs agents in Guyana during several of its trips to this country. Sattaur told News Source during a telephone interview that he has heard […]
By News Source Guyana on November 28, 2014
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Leader of the Opposition, retired Brigadier David Granger, has written to the Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) requesting that the current political situation in Guyana is brought to the attention of the CARICOM Heads of Government. In his letter, dated November 20, 2014, Mr. Granger urged that CARICOM convenes an emergency meeting to […]
By News Source Guyana on November 28, 2014
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The Ombudsman, Justice Winston Moore is standing by his report which recognised wrongdoings in the prosecution of three senior managers of the New Building Society. Former NBS Chief Executive Officer Maurice Arjoon had filed a complaint to the Ombudsman over several wrongs done to him and the other two managers as it relates to charges […]
By News Source Guyana on November 27, 2014
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The People’s Progressive Party in a statement about alleged opposition links to criminals labelled murdered Agricola youth Shaquille Grant as a criminal. Grant was the young man who was murdered in cold blood in 2012 by the Police while he was hanging out with some friends in a relative’s yard in Agricola. Three police officers […]
By News Source Guyana on November 27, 2014
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A Guyanese couple who arrived in Guyana on Thursday morning from the United States along with the relative who picked them up from the airport were robbed at gunpoint just as they pulled in at the Pouderoyen house where they would spend their vacation. US-based Guyanese Balram Singh and his wife Indira arrived at the […]
By News Source Guyana on November 27, 2014
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When US Customs in Puerto Rico found the US$620,000 in cash stashed on the Guyana bound private jet, the owner Guyanese businessman and pilot Khamraj Lall declared that he had forgotten that the money was on the plane. Court documents seen by News Source are shedding more light on the cash bust in the Spanish […]
By News Source Guyana on November 26, 2014
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The private jet which is owned by a Guyanese businessman and is at the centre of a money smuggling investigation in Puerto Rico, made several monthly trips to Guyana and on some occasions was never checked by Customs after its arrival, according to multiple sources close to the Customs Department. The owner of the jet, […]
By News Source Guyana on November 26, 2014
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Police in Guyana and Suriname are probing a human trafficking case that involved five Guyanese men as victims. The Guyana Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed the investigation and has already conducted interviews with the five men. In a statement on Wednesday afternoon, the Guyana Police Force said it is investigating the circumstances under which […]
By News Source Guyana on November 26, 2014
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Guyanese businessman and pilot Khamraj Lall is in custody in Puerto Rico facing serious money smuggling charges after over US$600,000 was discovered in a private jet that he was traveling on. The flight was heading to Guyana and was on a fuel stop in Puerto Rico when the bust was made. Lall is the Chief Executive […]
By News Source Guyana on November 25, 2014
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There appears to be new collusion at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport in the efforts of the drug lords to get cocaine out of Guyana. Just days after a man from Guyana was busted at New York’s JFK Airport with over 16 pounds of cocaine in rum bottles, two women who also travelled from Guyana […]