By News Source Guyana on February 12, 2014
News
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has joined other key stakeholders in expressing concern over the continuing delay in Guyana’s progress towards implementing recommendations to address deficiencies in its anti-money laundering regime. CARICOM today issued a statement calling on all parties involved in the process to take all necessary actions without further delay to have the necessary […]
By News Source Guyana on February 12, 2014
News
Even as there are concerns about drunk driving in Guyana and the accidents that may have been caused by drunk drivers, the Guyana Police Force may not be properly equipped to tackle the problem. Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee has admitted that in all of Guyana, there are only three breathalyzer kits that are […]
By News Source Guyana on February 11, 2014
News
Guyana is featured prominently in the latest major international crack down on drug cartels in the New York area. The 15 count indictment was unsealed on Tuesday in the Eastern District of New York Federal Court and details a major drug smuggling ring that involved drug cartels in the U.S and Italy who were relying […]
By News Source Guyana on February 11, 2014
News
The Customs Anti Narcotics Unit on Tuesday issued a Wanted Bulletin for shop keeper, Dawn Roberts of Georgetown. According to the wanted bulletin, the woman is wanted for questioning in connection with a cocaine bust at the Cheddi Jagan Airport last Saturday. She operates a shop at North Road, Bourda. News Source understands that the […]
By News Source Guyana on February 10, 2014
News
All Caribbean Airlines flights from Georgetown, Guyana left without incident on Monday as the Cheddi Jagan Airport remained on high alert following a terror threat against a U.S bound Caribbean Airlines flight. Minister of Transport, Robeson Benn told the National Assembly on Monday afternoon that the Government of Guyana first learnt of the terror threat […]
By News Source Guyana on February 10, 2014
News
Attorney-at-law and Chairman of the People’s National Congress, APNU Member of Parliament Basil Williams was elected as the new Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly on Monday. Williams takes up the post from former Member of Parliament Deborah Backer who resigned from the National Assembly last week because of an illness. Mr. Williams was unopposed […]
By News Source Guyana on February 10, 2014
News
Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry on Monday denied bail to a 78-year-old Guyanese born, American man and a 38-year-old Guyanese woman who both appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates Court and were slapped with drug trafficking charges. Both persons were busted at the Cheddi Jagan Airport on Saturday with cocaine hidden in large packets of achar in […]
By News Source Guyana on February 10, 2014
News
Barbadian authorities are expected to charge Guyanese born Captain Winston Leslie Fitzgerald Phillips in connection with the over five pounds of cocaine that was busted on a Panamanian registered vessel that stopped in Barbados after leaving Guyana last week. The 48-year-old Guyanese, captained the ship MV Rudisa Global, to Barbados and was in charge of its […]
By News Source Guyana on February 10, 2014
News
The Opposition group, A Partnership for National Unity has settled on Medical Doctor, Karen Cummings as the replacement in the National Assembly for APNU member Deborah Backer, who officially resigned from the National Assembly last week to focus on her health as she recovers from an illness. Multiple sources in the APNU have confirmed the […]
By News Source Guyana on February 10, 2014
News
Security and Intelligence officials in Guyana have confirmed that the terror threat which triggered heightened security at the Cheddi Jagan Airport came from Barbados. According to the officials who asked not to be named, Caribbean Airlines first received the threat over the weekend at its Barbados office in Bridgetown. “The threat came in the form […]