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Daily Archives: Tuesday, 26 November 2013, 23:57

GECOM Commissioner robbed

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia Commissioner of the Guyana Elections Commission Antharam Mangar was Tuesday night robbed and assaulted as he was about to enter his yard. Sources close to Mangar said he was robbed of GUY$50,000, US$200, diamond and gold jewellery and one Blackberry cellular phone. He was also gun butted to his lower ...

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Two grilled for murder of male sex worker

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia Two persons were Tuesday questioned and released in connection with the killing of a male sex worker on the Corentyne. The body of 36-year old Nandkumar Purnwassie also known as Vishaul, Champa and Dasrhinie of Tain, Corentyne was found about 5 AM Tuesday on a street at Anchor Ville, Port ...

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Guyanese beheads another in Venezuela

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia A Guyanese man beheaded another countryman in neighbouring Venezuela following a disagreement in the Spanish-speaking country. Dead is Gordon Mc Lennon of Sugar Hill, a village near Wauna, North West District. Sources said Mc Lennon and 46-year old Ivelaw Baird were engaged in an argument at Polvo De Oro, gold-rich ...

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Caricom suspends Dom.Rep’s membership application

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia The 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on Tuesday suspended the Dominican Republic’s (DR) membership of the regional grouping over that Spanish-speaking country’s refusal to grant nationality status to citizens born to illegal Haitian migrants. “The Community, at this time, will suspend consideration of the request by the Dominican Republic for membership ...

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Beepat’s clerk on embezzlement charge

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia A clerk of Beepat’s Harbedashery Store was Tuesday arraigned for allegedly embezzling GUY$1.4 million from his employer. 26-year old Jason De Florimonte of 131 Pike Street, Kitty was not required to plea to the indictable charge of embezzling then money between August 15 and October 31,2013. City Magistrate Judy Latchman ...

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APNU, AFC differ on method to take back guns from unsuitable persons

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia Opposition parties- A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change (AFC)- on Tuesday agreed that licensed guns in the hands of unsuitable persons should taken away but they differ on the method. APNU believes that if government stops tinkering with the licensing process and leave it in ...

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Tradesman on armed robbery charge

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia A tradesman was remanded to prison Tuesday morning after he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts where he was slapped with a robbery under arms charge. 44-year old Mark Lovell of 44 Friendship, East Bank Demerara entered a not guilty plead to the charge which stated that on November 18 ...

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‘Used to get myself out to bowl or field’ – McGarrell

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia by Peter Della Penna(ESPN CricInfo).-The Guyana pipeline has supplied numerous players to the USA national team over the years but the cricketing bond between the two countries is somewhat ambivalent, something not touted by the USA with chest-thumping pride. The link has sometimes been a source of derision for critics ...

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