Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia Efforts by President Donald Ramotar and leaders of the parliamentary opposition parties to reach consensus on passing amendments to the financial crimes bill before February 28 appear to be in limbo. The Guyanese leader, Chairman of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), David Granger and Leader of the Alliance For ...
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Dr. ‘Touchy Feely’ convicted for sexual assaulting women under anesthesia
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia (CBC CANADA).- Dr. George Doodnaught, the Toronto anesthesiologist found guilty of sexually assaulting 21 women while they were under conscious sedation in hospital, was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday. In delivering the sentence, Judge David McCombs called the crimes “shocking and abhorrent.” He said “a very substantial sentence” ...
Read More »Canada-bound woman busted with cocaine in achar
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia The Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) Wednesday morning busted a Guyanese woman with cocaine in achar shortly before she was about to board a flight to Canada where she resides, the airport said in a statement. The Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) said the 24 year-old woman was arrested after ...
Read More »Thieves cart off KFC’s safe, video surveillance system
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia Thieves early Tuesday morning carted off close to GUY$1 million in cash and equipment from the KFC outlet at Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara. Managing Director, Deo Singh said the burglars blow-torched a metal safe from the ground where it was bolted down and carted it off with at least GUY$700,000. ...
Read More »GDF pledges to help Walter Rodney Inquiry Commission
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) on Tuesday pledged to help the Walter Rodney Inquiry Commission in its probe into the killing of the politician-historian in a bomb-blast near the Georgetown Prison more than 30 years ago. During discussions, COS Brigadier Phillips and his team, which included Deputy COS Col Kemraj ...
Read More »Sex Worker Coalition member on cocaine trafficking charge
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia A member of the Guyana Sex Worker Coalition, Tishana Edwards was Tuesday remanded to prison on a charge of being in possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking. Twenty-three year old Tishana Edwards of Lot 1 Victoria Road, Plaisance pleaded not guilty to the charge when she appeared before ...
Read More »Walter Rodney Inquiry Commission sworn in
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia A three-member commission was Monday sworn in to probe the bomb-blast death of Guyanese politician, Dr. Walter Rodney at the height of a civil rebellion against the then administration of late President Forbes Burnham. Chairman of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry, Sir Richard Cheltenham, however, said he was unsure when ...
Read More »Ashni Singh’s accident is police matter- Rohee
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia General Secretary of the Peoples Progressive Party (PPP), Clement Rohee on Tuesday shrugged off questions about Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh’s involvement in an accident on Mash Day. Asked his views about Singh allegedly leaving the scene without rendering assistance to the taxi driver and his passenger, Rohee would only ...
Read More »Red Thread’s Karen De Souza cops Caribbean Award for Excellence
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia (TRINIDAD GUARDIAN).-Guyana’s Karen De Souza of the women and children’s rights organisation-Red Thread- is among three persons who are 2014 laureates of the Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Awards for Excellence. De Souza was awarded for Public and Civic Contributions. The others are Professor Liam Teague of Trinidad in the category ...
Read More »Policeman allegedly slams into Demerara Harbour Bridge, toss Manager’s phone overboard
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:59 by GxMedia The Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) on Monday said that almost one month after a policeman slammed into the thoroughfare and tossed the Bridge Manager, Rawlston Adams’ cellular phone into the river “The Police are currently conducting an internal investigation into the matter,” the Harbour Bridge said in a statement. The ...
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