By News Source Guyana on June 25, 2014
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The Personal Assistant to Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon, appeared in court on Wednesday charged with stealing over $1Million from his landlord. According to the Prosecution’s case, the young man Azeem Khan, lived in a two storey building owned by the complainant. The building in Kitty, Georgetown, houses the apartment where Khan […]
By News Source Guyana on June 24, 2014
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GEORGETOWN – The U.S Embassy’s Public Affairs Section held its second annual Youth Action Network (YAN) Conference June 21-22, 2014 at the Splashmin’s Fun Park, Soesdyke-Linden Highway. Twenty Guyanese Youth Action Network members participated in competence-building seminars in the areas of personal development and goal setting, leadership styles, and strategies to motivate others. The sessions […]
By News Source Guyana on June 24, 2014
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With the summer travel season approaching and a number of new airlines announcing their entry into Guyana and other Caribbean markets, one of the Directors of Fly Jamaica Airways believe it is time for the people of the Caribbean to give more support to the airlines which are owned by people of the Caribbean. Fly […]
By News Source Guyana on June 24, 2014
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Forty-one year old Georgetown resident, Darren Owen Harris was sentenced to three years in jail on Monday after he pleaded guilty to a drug trafficking charge. The man and his son were arrested at the Cheddi Jagan Airport over the weekend when CANU agents found over 2 pounds of cocaine in the suitcases bearing their […]
By News Source Guyana on June 23, 2014
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Guyana’s Lisa Punch sang her way into the hearts of viewers across the globe and into the next round of the new American reality song show, Rising Star, which premiered live on Sunday evening on the ABC Network. The Guyanese born, Brooklyn resident sang Whitney Houston’s “How Will I know”, but by the end of […]
By News Source Guyana on June 23, 2014
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The Governments of Guyana and the United States have reached agreement on the Leadership and Democracy project which had found itself embroiled in controversy after the Guyana Government initially objected to its implementation. In an interview with News Source at his Duke Street, Georgetown office, US Ambassador to Guyana D. Brent Hardt announced that “the U.S […]
By News Source Guyana on June 22, 2014
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The strength of the Guyana Defence Force has increased with the addition of 276 new soldiers who have completed 10 weeks of training on the army’s first Basic Recruits Course for the year. The passing out parade for this latest batch of entrants was held on Friday at the Drill Square at the Colonel John […]
By News Source Guyana on June 22, 2014
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The United States Department of State is once again issuing a call for Guyana to do more in the fight against human trafficking. In its 2014 Trafficking in Persons report, the State Department said the Government of Guyana does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking while acknowledging that there are […]
By News Source Guyana on June 20, 2014
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Just days after an American man who travelled from Guyana with cocaine in his suitcase handles was busted at the JFK Airport in New York, a Guyanese father and son have found themselves in the custody of the Guyanese authorities after they were busted at the Cheddi Jagan Airport on Friday with a quantity of […]
By News Source Guyana on June 20, 2014
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HAGERSTOWN, Md. —Investigators on Friday ruled out the possibility that someone else killed a 32-year-old woman and her two baby daughters whose bodies were found in their car in a middle school parking lot in Hagerstown. Hagerstown police have ruled out the possibility that a woman and her two young daughters found dead in their car were […]