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The Guyana Police Force has announced that it has received advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions to file trafficking-in-persons charges against local pilot and businessman, Orlando Charles of Georgetown. In a Monday night statement, the Police said the 45-year-old pilot has been investigated for 16 counts of trafficking in persons, related to the alleged […]
Executive Member of A New and United Guyana (ANUG), Kian Jabour is calling on the Ministers of Amerindian Affairs, Education, Home Affairs, Health and Local Government to step down from office pending the completion of an independent Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the deadly Mahdia Dormitory fire that claimed the lives of 19 children, while […]
A New Amsterdam, Berbice mother of three was charged and remanded to prison today for murder, over the poisoning death of her reputed husband. 42-year-old Leila Bacchus was not required to enter a plea on the murder charge when she appeared at the New Amsterdam Magistrates’ Court. The Court was told that between the 16th […]
A 15-year-old girl, who is accused of setting the Mahdia School dormitory on fire, killing 19 children was today charged with murder, and remanded to the Juvenile Holding Centre. The teenage girl appeared virtually at the Mahdia Magistrates’ Court this morning. She is being represented by Attorneys Dexter Todd, Dexter Smartt, Jevon Cox and Tanya […]
The teenage school girl who reportedly started the fire in the Mahdia School dormitory that went out of control and killed 19 children will face murder charges. The Director of Public Prosecutions has recommended that she faces the 19 murder charges for the deaths of the 18 girls and a young boy in the fire. […]
33-year-old Neon Howard, who the Police have indicated was an accomplice in the escape of notorious death row inmate, Royden Williams aka Smallie, was shot dead by members of the Joint Services after he was already under arrest, but allegedly made an attempt to escape. In a statement this evening, the Guyana Police Force said […]
With Guyana still not having campaign financing legislation in place more than two years after it was recommended by the EU Elections Observer Mission, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has indicated that while the government and his People’s Progressive Party remain committed to having such legislation in place, he is concerned about financiers of his party […]
As Guyana ushered in its 57 Independence anniversary, President Irfaan Ali reflected on the strength of the nation through difficult circumstances, as he made reference to the Mahdia dorm fire tragedy, which claimed the lives of 19 children. The President announced that a Commission of Inquiry into the incident and the circumstances that led to […]
Four prison officers, a Venezuelan woman and a Parika resident were this afternoon charged and remanded to prison over the escape of notorious death row inmate and convicted mass murderer, Royden Williams aka “Smallie”. Appearing via Zoom before Magistrate Christel Lambert of the Bartica Magistrates’ Court, Prison Officers Alexander Hopkinson, Conroy Hosannah, Omar Witherspoon and […]
With many of the residents of Mahdia and surrounding communities and the students themselves trying to come to grips with the tragedy at the Mahdia School Dormitory that left 19 children dead, the Ministry of Health has indicated that a number of mental health experts remain on the ground offering counseling and assistance to those […]
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