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A Copa Airlines flight to Panama City was this afternoon delayed at Guyana’s Cheddi Jagan Airport after the airline received a bomb threat. Passengers were already on board the aircraft when the threat was received. The passengers were quickly evacuated as the Police and Bomb squad hurried to the plane and started to carry out […]
44-year-old Lethem Businessman, Marlon Jarvis stood before the Chief Magistrate and denied the allegations of drug trafficking today. He has been remanded to jail until the 18th April. The court heard that between the 3rd and 4th April at Tabatinga, Lethem, the businessman had 53.7 Kilograms of compressed marijuana and 1.5 kilograms of cocaine for […]
Classes at the Freeburg Secondary School in Norton Street, Georgetown ended just as they were about to get underway today as teachers and students complained of an invasion of mosquitoes. Teachers at the school told News Source that the situation has become unbearable for them and their students. They explained that the problem has been […]
Public Security Minister, Kemraj Ramjattan, today revealed that he might have to take a supplementary budget to the National Assembly to seek additional money for the Smart City Security Pilot project that will see more CCTV cameras being installed around Georgetown. While equipment for the project is already in Guyana, the additional funding to be […]
Declaring that he did not kill anyone and had never been in trouble before, an Albouystown man appeared in Court today and was charged with the murder of 18-year-old footballer Christopher Mansfield. Mansfield was gunned down last Sunday morning in Albouystown just after he left his home for an early morning football game. In the […]
Former Policeman 37-year-old Clinton Doris, was today sentenced to 26 years in jail after he was found guilty of raping a 7-year-old girl. The verdict was handed down by the jury three weeks ago, but Justice Jo-ann Barlow handed down the prison sentence at the High Court today after the Court was provided with a […]
Almost 20 years ago, several families from the Tiger Bay Community were moved to the old Housing Compound in the Tucville community. Some were promised and granted house-lots, while others have found themselves still living under less than comfortable situations in small wooden shacks in the compound with their plastic roofs. Today, Minister responsible for […]
The teenage student of the New Amsterdam Technical Institute who was caught on camera beating away on some classmates has been suspended and ordered to undergo counseling that will be provided by the Education Ministry. The three boys who were on the receiving end of the assault have also been ordered to undergo counseling. The […]
The Chief Executive Officer of the Central Housing and Planning Authority, Lelon Saul, today told reporters that he believes that it is a conflict of interest for the husband of the Minister responsible for Housing to be granted contracts for projects that fall under the agency. It was recently revealed that the husband of Minister […]
Assistant UN Secretary General and UNDP Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, Dr. Luis Felipe Lopez-Calva, is in Guyana on a one-day visit to Guyana today. Last evening he met and held discussions with Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo, who is performing the duties of President. According to the Prime Minister’s office, during an […]
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