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CARICOM worries about delays in Anti Money Laundering

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 […]

Guyana has only 3 working breathalyzer kits

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 […]

Guyana named in major New York Mafia shakedown

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 […]

Woman wanted in cocaine in achar case

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 […]

Guyana first learnt of CAL terror threat on Friday

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 […]

Basil Williams is new Deputy Speaker; Dr. Cummings sworn in

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 […]

78yr old man and 38yr old woman refused bail for cocaine in achar

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 […]

Barbados to charge Guyanese Captain for cocaine in cement ship

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 […]

CAL terror threat came from Barbados

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 […]