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Miner dies after being tied up and beaten during robbery

Police investigators are hunting for two gunmen who attacked and robbed three miners at a mining camp Issano. One of the badly beaten miners succumed to his injuries on Monday while receiving medical care. The incident took place last Thursday. The dead miner has been identified as 35-year-old Joseph Nurse of Mahaica. Nurse and his […]

Brits to train officers of Special Organised Crime Unit

(GINA)  A Memorandum of Understanding signed between the Government of Guyana and the United Kingdom has paved the way for training and mentoring for the staff of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) created by the government to investigate money laundering crimes.  Signing on the ruling administration’s behalf on Monday was Head of the Presidential […]

High Court grants injunction against Speaker’s accuser

The High Court on Monday afternoon granted an injunction barring the young man who has made sex abuse claims against the Speaker from publishing, whether in print or electronic media, any material relating to the allegations that he has made against the Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman. The young man Johnny Anthony Welshman, […]

23-year-old woman stabbed to death by boyfriend who laters surrenders

A 29-year-old dental technician from the West Coast of Demerara is in custody after he brutally stabbed his 23-year-old girlfriend to death at the woman’s West Coast home during an argument on Sunday. Dead is Rajkumarrie Persaud from Hague on the West Coast of Demerara. Her assailant has been identified as a dental technician who […]