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Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence took the witness stand at the Magistrates’ Court this morning in a fraud case against a man who allegedly impersonated her and defrauded persons of millions of dollars. The man, Mohammed Ali, is accused of calling a business owner while impersonating the Public Health Minister and getting the person […]
A 21-year-old man from Silver Hill on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway was further remanded to jail over the murder of a 4-year-old boy. The accused, Joseph James, was not required to enter a plea to the indictable murder charge. The Prosecution’s case is that on the day in question, the child was left in the care […]
A small aircraft belonging to Domestic Airways crashed this morning moments after take-off from the interior location of Aricheng. Director General of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority, Egbert Field confirmed the plane crash. He said the GCAA has activated its search and rescue plan and a team is heading out to the area. The single […]
Chief Justice Roxanne George-Wiltshire this afternoon threw out an application by the opposition People’s Progressive Party to get the Court to force the Cabinet to resign in keeping with the passage of the no-confidence matter. The Chief Justice in her ruling described the PPP’s application as vexatious and an absolute abuse of the process of […]
President David Granger this morning accepted the credentials of the new German Ambassador to Guyana, Ute Konig. Guyana and Germany have shared diplomatic ties for over fifty years, with those ties being developed in Guyana’s year of independence. President Granger said the relationship between Guyana and Germany is founded on mutual respect for each other’s […]
The Customs Anti Narcotics Unit is preparing charges against two men from Tuschen on the East Bank Essequibo after the two were busted with 90 pounds of marijuana. The two men have been identified as 39-year-old Shafeek Latif and 35-year-old Naresh Totaram. In a statement today, CANU said the two men were occupants of a […]
The recently launched Liberty and Justice Party headed by Indigenous Leader and former Toashao Lenox Shuman has started preliminary talks with A Partnership for National Unity over the possibility of the LJP joining forces with the APNU+AFC for the next elections. President David Granger this morning confirmed that he has held discussions with Mr. Shuman […]
President David Granger has ordered the Acting Police Commissioner to conduct a full commission of inquiry into yesterday’s deadly accident at Friendship on the East Bank of Demerara which claimed the lives of five persons. The five victims were identified as husband and wife, Herbert and Denise Josiah, Special Constable Lavern Stoby, GDF sergeant Leon […]
The Guyana Police Force has ruled out any involvement of a soldier who was found dead on the roadway in Tucville in the shooting death of a gold miner yesterday morning. The soldier’s body with two bullet wounds was found moments after the shooting death of miner Deon Stoll. It was initially suspected that he […]
The Troy Resources Mining company has been forced to bring all of its mining activities in the Region Seven area to a halt following an instruction from the Minister responsible for Labour, Keith Scott. The company announced today that even before the release of the findings into the death of a geologist at the mine […]
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