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Police Service, Integrity Commissions: CJ sets August 23 to rule on legality of appointments

…members were vetted by National Assembly, are of good standing – AG A ruling by acting Chief Justice Roxane George, SC, on the constitutionality of...

24-year-old labourer charged for murder of Berbice businessman

Twenty-four-year-old Dave Singh of Betsy Ground East Canje, Berbice was on Friday arraigned for the murder of 53-year-old Vickram Seubarran who was found with...

Charlestown youth remanded for robbery at Kitty seawall

A resident of Russell Street, Charlestown, Georgetown appeared in a Georgetown Magistrate’s court on Wednesday to face a charge accusing him of robbing a...

Berbice man found guilty of stabbing brother-in-law to death

A New Amsterdam, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) man was on Tuesday found guilty by a jury of the 2018 unlawful killing of his brother-in-law. Jermaine...

Dont be fearful to come forward – Magistrate to undocumented TIP victims

In observance of International Day Against Trafficking in Persons (TIP), which is held on July 30 annually, members of the Magistracy on Thursday participated...

Men admit to killing of sugar estate employee

The two men who were initially charged with the 2017 murder of Leonora, West Coast Demerara (WCD) sugar estate employee Kawal Shivnauth have pleaded...

“I apologise for everything” – convicted child rapist tells court, jailed for 16 years

Collin Venture, 41, who repeatedly raped a teenage girl, has been jailed for 16 years. Evidence revealed that he groomed the 13-year-old girl before...

Woman in Facebook ‘Romance’ scam spared jail time

A 25-year-old woman of Go-Slow Avenue, North East La Penitence, Georgetown, implicated in a Facebook romance scam in which she pretended to be a...

SOCU charges ‘Romance Scheme’ conspirator

A 25-year-old woman of Georgetown was today charged by the Special Organised crime Unit (SOCU) with Conspiracy to Defraud. Susan Richards of Go-Slow Avenue, North...

Charrandas Persaud wins defamation lawsuit against AFC leader, court awards $7M in damages

Guyana’s High Commissioner to India, Charrandas Persaud, has won what was originally a $30 million lawsuit against Alliance For Change Leader Khemraj Ramjattan, albeit...

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Lusignan prison escapee spotted in Parika, GPS offers reward for his arrest

Days after Jose Awad escaped from the Lusignan Prison, East Coast Demerara, he was reportedly spotted in the vicinity of Parika, East Bank Essequibo. ...

QC teacher sent on leave after allegedly beating students

An investigation has been launched into the beating of some 10 students of Queens College. According to reports, the incident occurred around 10:15h on Thursday...

Essequibo shopkeeper busted with cocaine, ganja

A 47-year-old shopkeeper of Dartmouth Village Essequibo Coast, Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam) was on Wednesday taken into custody following the discovery of a quantity of...

Guyanese among 2 killed in Upstate NY head-on collision

A Guyanese woman was among two killed in a head-on crash in White Creek, upstate New York. Dead are 39-year-old Shumeka Burgan-Mentor formerly of Timehri,...

Taxi driver busted with 22kg ganja gets 4 years, fined $19.8M

Fifty-three-year-old Eusi Wilson, a taxi driver who was interception with 22 kilograms of cannabis in his motorcar on April 21, 2024, along High Street,...

2-year-old-old among 3 injured after lorry crashes into concrete bridge

A two-year-old was among three persons injured after the motor lorry in which they were travelling crashed into a concrete bridge along the Glasgow...

8 illegal structures halt major infrastructural works in Linden – CH&PA

The Chief Executive Officer of the Central Housing and Planning Authority, Sherwyn Greaves, on Wednesday morning, went with a team on a fact-finding mission...

T&T Govt denies blocking importation of milk from Guyana

claims importer returned goods to DDL   The Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Ministry had very strong words for Trinidad and Tobago’s (T&T) decision to...

Conciliation talks: Govt rejects GTU’s 20% across-the-board increase ultimatum

…says demand shocked Ministry, unreasonable The sudden ultimatum by the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) to demand that the Government pay all teachers a 20 per...

Fmr. PNC General Secretary, Oscar Clarke passes

Former General Secretary (GS) of the People's National Congress (PNC) reportedly died on Wednesday after complaining of feeling unwell. He died at a private...