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Friday, April 19, 2024

Bandits strike at West Canje

2 homes broken into Two homes in West Canje, Berbice, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) were burglarised on Sunday night and more than $1 million...

Four arraigned for armed robbery

Four men, including a father of four children, were earlier today (Monday), arraigned when they appeared at the Leonora Magistrate Court charged for carrying...

11 escape NOC, all recaptured shortly after

Eleven (six females and five males) inmates escaped from the New Opportunity Corps (NOC), Onderneeming, Essequibo Coast, on Sunday around 17:15h but were apprehend...

Carjacker wanted for several incidents nabbed by Police

Police on Sunday morning arrested a Dennis Street, Sophia, Greater Georgetown resident after he was implicated as the mastermind of numerous carjacking incidents over...

Bandits rob gas station employees in Berbice

Gas station employees Prakash Seenarine, 32, and Darren Reddy, 21, attacked and robbed while on duty at their place of employment at Main and...

Essequibo businessman arrested with ganja, cocaine

Police in G Division (Essequibo coast-Islands) have arrested a Dartmouth, Essequibo Coast businessman after a quantity of narcotics was discovered at his home on...

Pregnant woman killed in Jawalla freak storm

  several buildings destroyed Marsha Jordan, seven months pregnant, was killed as a result of a freak storm that hit the village of Jawalla in...

Berbice serious accident: Drunk driver suspended from driving for 2 years

Kemchand Shivprashad, the driver of the minibus involved in the serious accident on Number 19 Public Road last Thursday appeared before Magistrate Alex Moore...

High powered AK47, ammo found in Kingston bush

Ranks of the Guyana Police Force in A Division (Georgetown-East Bank Demerara) on Friday evening unearthed a high-powered weapon and several rounds of ammunition...

LBI house collapses crushing vacationing child

Tragedy befell the community of La Bonne Intention (LBI), East Coast Demerara, on Friday afternoon after a single-storey wooden building came crashing down, resulting...

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More than 440 families will benefit from house allocation in several areas including Anna Catherina, Edinburg, Leonora, Groenveldt, Stewartsville, and Meten-Meer-Zorg in Region Three,...

Venezuelan stabbed to death by co-worker

See full statement from the Guyana Police Force:  A report of an alleged murder committed on one called ‘Frankie’, Venezuelan, by suspect, Cane Vincent, age...

“Words can’t express how much they mean to me” – mother demands answers, justice...

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No increase in electricity costs for consumers – Jagdeo assures amid power ship deal

Vice President Dr Bharrat Jagdeo has assured that the electricity price will not increase following the government’s move to charter a power ship to...

Govt would hire contractors without “full experience” to keep up with rapid development –...

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Stabroek Market Wharf cleanup making significant progress

Works on clearing the rubble from the collapsed roof of the Stabroek Market Wharf continued on Thursday. A 45-member crew is working assiduously to remove...

US$1M mobilisation fee for rental of power ship – GPL

  See full statement from the Guyana Power and Light: On April 13, 2024, the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Inc. signed a contract with Urbacon...

Truck involved in Water Street fatal accident was unregistered – police

See full statement from the Guyana Police Force:  A fatal accident occurred on Monday, April 15, 2024, on Water Street, Georgetown, involving an unregistered motor...

Mother of 3 crushed to death by truck

A 36-year-old mother of three was last evening crushed to death by a hauler truck at High and Princes Streets, Georgetown. She has been identified...

Remigrant calls for better police response after home burglarised; over $1.5M in items stolen

A businessman’s home in Berbice was burglarized while he was overseas, resulting in over $1 million in items being stolen. The man, a remigrant is...