By News Source Guyana on May 6, 2014
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The mother of the 15-year-old young man who was shot in his mouth by a russian roulette obsessed police officer, has turned down compensation being offered to her by the policeman. The boy’s mother Marcelle Griffith, told News Source that she has been receiving a number of calls from persons claiming to be attorneys representing […]
By News Source Guyana on May 6, 2014
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The Governing People’s Progressive Party is not happy with recent statements from the U.S Ambassador about the state of the state media in Guyana and the need for the independent media to stop being referred to as “Opposition media”. The party has now labeled the US Ambassador Brent Hardt as a “meddler in local politics”. […]
By News Source Guyana on May 5, 2014
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President Donald Ramotar has indicated that he does not believe that Guyana needs a Leadership and Democracy Project at this time and that may be the real reason why the Government has opposed the U.S funded project from the time it was introduced. The Government announced last week that it had revoked the work permit […]
By News Source Guyana on May 5, 2014
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(NY Daily News) A 9-year-old girl who had just left church was killed in Brooklyn on Sunday when a motorist suspected in a hit-and-run crash fled a traffic stop and caused a three-car wreck, police said. Rebecca Ramnarine, a fourth-grader from St. Albans, Queens, died at Brookdale University Hospital shortly after the 5 p.m. accident […]
By News Source Guyana on May 4, 2014
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Police and Drug Enforcement officers are investigating a bizarre case that has left four persons dead and young child in a critical state. The dead persons have been identified as Alex Baird, Natasha George and Simone Price. Alex and Simone were a couple. Their son Jahaquel Blair also died. Pandemonium broke out at an East […]
By News Source Guyana on May 4, 2014
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(Trinidad Express) At about 12:05 a.m. Sunday morning, senior counsel Dana Seetahal was in her Volkswagen SUV proceeding north along Hamilton-Holder street, Woodbrook when upon reaching the vicinity of the Woodbrook Youth Facility two vehicles pulled alongside her causing her to come to a stop. One of the vehicles, a Nissan Wingroad, then drove ahead a […]
By News Source Guyana on May 3, 2014
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As the Government of Guyana continues with its efforts to get the U.S Government to put a hold on its Leadership and Democracy Project, the U.S Embassy in Georgetown has expressed its disappointment over the move by the Guyana government to revoke the work permit and extension of stay status to the Chief of Party […]
By News Source Guyana on May 3, 2014
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Police investigators are looking for two men who on Friday broke into the home of a Haslington, East Coast Demerara family and chopped the owner to death while injuring his wife. According to the Police, initial investigations indicate that two men, both of whom were armed with cutlasses, entered the home of 40-year-old Chetram Bharrat […]
By News Source Guyana on May 1, 2014
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A 35-year-old Guyanese man who travelled to the United States on Travelspan Airlines on April 22, 2014 was busted at New York’s JFK International Airport with over 17 pounds of cocaine stashed in custard powder packets. He pade it pass all the layers of security at Guyana’s Cheddi Jagan Airport without the packets of cocaine […]
By News Source Guyana on May 1, 2014
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President Donald Ramotar, while attending the Third CARICOM-Mexico Summit which began on Tuesday, April 29, 2014 in Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico, highlighted the challenges which the region faces in the agricultural sector, pointing out that despite the many initiatives taken, the Caribbean was still be a net importer of food with the food bill amounting to […]