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Guyana signs new work agreement with UNICEF

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett and Representative of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Marianna Flach signed an agreement for the implementation of the 2014 annual work-plan, which will allow for specific interventions and support programmes to be executed by the Ministries of Education, Health, Human Services and Social Security and Culture Youth and […]

PM wants more traffic ranks with radar guns and breathalyzers

Even as the Government tries to shoot down allegations that one of its own Ministers was drunk driving when he slammed into another car, Guyana’s Prime Minister Samuel Hinds wants more Traffic Officers to be equipped with Breathalyzers and radar guns. Just recently, the Government admitted that in the entire Guyana, the Police Force only […]

La Grange woman found murdered in Cuyuni shop

Police investigators have traveled to the Rock Creek, Cuyuni area to conduct investigations into the brutal murder of 35 year old Bibi Shaneeza Bhola who was found in her shop in the mining district with a stab wound to her stomach. The woman who hailed from the West Demerara village of La Grange worked in […]

AG rejects accusations that Finance Minister was drunk driving

While the President, the Prime Minister and the Home Affairs Minister have all been dodging questions surrounding allegations of drunk driving by the Minister of Finance, the Attorney General of Guyana Anil Nandlall now claims that the allegations of the Minister being under the influence of alcohol and not submitting himself to a breathalyzer test […]

Vehicle in fatal hit and run found in GWI compound

Police investigators are now looking for a driver attached to the Guyana Water Incorporated who they believe hit and killed a food vendor on Wednesday night on Mandela Avenue and drove off from the scene. Forty six-year-old food vendor, Claude McPherson aka Chippy was hit down and dragged for over 400 yards by a speeding […]

Linden biker dies in accident at Kara Kara bridge

Linden Biker and auto salesman Lloyd Smith aka Junior Stboi was killed earlier Wednesday evening in an accident in Linden when he lost control of his CBR Motorcycle while trying to avoid a truck. The young man believed to be in his early 20’s was riding along the Linden Soesdyke Highway in the Kara Kara area […]

Woman found murdered in Paradise burial ground

Police investigators were  called to the Paradise burial ground late on Wednesday afternoon where the lifeless body of a young woman was found with multiple wounds. The dead woman has been identified as Patricia Younge aka Kattie. She is believed to be in her early 20’s and lived in one of the villages close to […]

Guyanese born, Canadian Doctor sentenced for sex crimes on patients

(Toronto Star) Former North York General anesthesiologist Dr George Doodnaught was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years imprisonment for sexually assaulting 21 of his female patients. As Doodnaught, 65, was handcuffed and arrested from court, a few of the women clapped. His conduct was “reprehensible in the extreme,” Superior Court Justice David McCombs said in his […]

Guyanese man disowns then owns drug laden bags at JFK

A Guyanese man who traveled to New York on a Fly Jamaica flight from Guyana via Kingston, Jamaica has been charged with drug trafficking and has been offered bail in the sum of US$150,000. The man, Samuel Henry arrived last Monday at New York’s JFK Airport and was about to make his way out of […]

Canadian woman busted with cocaine in achar

Two weeks after an American man and a Guyanese woman were busted at the Cheddi Jagan Airport with cocaine stashed in packets of achar, a Canadian citizen has been arrested after she tried to ferry cocaine out of Guyana in the same manner. Agents of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit on Wednesday busted the 24 […]