By Dr. David Hinds We should not allow the evil of racism, Guyana’s frustrating politics and the political dinosaurs in the PPP to drive us to border on demeaning or denying some uplifting aspects of our identity. Identity is complex; it is partly who we say we are and partly how others perceive us. Identity is also a historical phenomenon ...
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Surinamese police assault Guyana’s Ambassador inside embassy in violation of international law
Surinamese police allegedly assaulted the Guyana Ambassador to that neighbouring country, Keith George while he was blocking the arrest of his chauffeur inside the embassy in clear violation of international law. Guyana’s Foreign Ministry said George insisted that no arrest could take place on the premises because that would be a breach of the Vienna Convention, but the police said ...
Read More »Three nabbed for spate of Thursday night robberies in East Berbice
Three men have been arrested in connection with a spate of robberies in East Berbice during Thursday night, police said. Following is the full text of a statement issued by the Guyana Police Force. At about 2030h. last night Thursday April 02, 2015, three men, one of whom was armed with a firearm and the others with cutlasses, entered the ...
Read More »Businessman charged in connection with charcoal cocaine
A 58-year-old businessman was on Friday, April 2 refused bail at the Georgetown Magistrates Court on a drug trafficking charge. Colin Clyde Prescott of Linden, pleaded not guilty to the charge, when it was read to him by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry. Particulars of which said on March 30 at Silver Hill, Linden Soesdyke Highway, he was busted with 178 ...
Read More »Jamaican jailed, fined for cocaine-in-lotion
A Jamaican man, who attempted to smuggle more than one kilogramme of cocaine in lotion, was Thursday jailed for five years and fined GUY$3.4 million. Richard Daniels, 20, wad found guilty for being possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking. He was busted with 1.236 kilograms of cocaine concealed in two bottles of lotion and two and a half ...
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