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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia In the wake of reports that an American couple is hoping to raise US$20,000 to adopt a Guyanese girl through an adoption agency, Guyana’s Child Care and Protection Agency (CCPA) on Tuesday said that is not possible. CCPA Director Ann Greene said her ministry has no record of any application ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia (NEW YORK MAG).-Valance Cole has at least two key facts on his side in his long struggle to overturn a manslaughter conviction for a 1985 Brooklyn killing that has kept him in prison for more than a quarter century. The first is that the homicide detective who built the case ...

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 ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia KNOXVILLE (WATE) – An American couple in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States is in the process of adopting a child from the South American country of Guyana. They expected the process to take several years, but suddenly it sped up. Allen and Stephanie Harden were told it would take two to three ...