By News Source Guyana on February 5, 2015
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The former personal assistant to the junior Agriculture Minister, surrendered to police on Wednesday which was just one day after a wanted bulletin was issued for his arrest. The man, Kenroy Joseph was accompanied by his Attorney James Bond. Joseph has been fingered as an accomplice in a drug trafficking effort which was busted last […]
By News Source Guyana on February 4, 2015
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The Director of Public Prosecutions, Shalimar Ali-Hack has advised the Guyana Police Force that there is no basis for sex assault charges to be laid against Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman. The advice comes following a complaint filed by a young Guyanese man, Johnnie Welshman who had claimed that he was sexually assaulted […]
By News Source Guyana on February 4, 2015
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Guyana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett has announced that she has written to the Honorary Consul in Trinidad and Tobago Ernie Ross requesting that he explains his alleged possible involvement in the scandal that led to the Trinidadian Prime Minister firing her Attorney General and the Minister of National Security. The Guyana Foreign Minister […]
By News Source Guyana on February 4, 2015
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Former President of Guyana Bharrat Jagdeo, who is currently overseas, has asked the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) government to clarify that he is not interested in being elected to a third term in office. That request came in response to a writ which was filed in the High Court on Monday challenging the two […]
By News Source Guyana on February 4, 2015
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24-year-old Vishnu Singh was slapped with rape charges on Wednesday morning when he appeared at the Sparendaam Magistrates Court. He was granted bail in the sum of $400,000. The charges stem from his alleged sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl. The Better Hope, East Coast Demerara man, who is the son of the head of […]
By News Source Guyana on February 4, 2015
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Family members of the missing Air Services pilot Nicky Persaud and cargo loader David Bisnauth are not giving up hope that they could still find their remains and bring the two men home. The two have been presumed dead after their Britten Norman Islander aircraft bearing registration 8R-GHE disappeared without a trace while it was heading […]
By News Source Guyana on February 4, 2015
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The University of Guyana has issued a warning to striking staff members that money will be deducted from their salaries as they continue to stay away from the classrooms during their sit in protest action. In a memo to staff members and their union, the University administration made it clear that the deductions could be […]
By News Source Guyana on February 3, 2015
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The Guyana Police Force on Tuesday issued a wanted bulletin for 29-year-old Kenroy Anthony Augustus Joseph whose last known address is 69 D’Anrade Street, Newtown Kitty. The man is the former personal assistant to the Junior Agriculture Minister. He is wanted in connection with last Friday’s cocaine bust at the Cheddi Jagan Airport which resulted […]
By News Source Guyana on February 3, 2015
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The United States government on Tuesday afternoon delivered at least 26 Guyanese deportees on a special chartered flight which landed at the Cheddi Jagan Airport just after 3 o’ clock. The deportees were welcomed back to the land of their birth by heavily armed members of the Tactical Services Unit of the Guyana Police Force. […]
By News Source Guyana on February 3, 2015
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Teachers at the Mackenzie High School in Linden walked out of their classrooms again on Tuesday as they continued their protest action over the absence of working washroom and other facilities at the school. Students of the school were told to stay at home for a second day on Tuesday as the teachers moved their protest […]