Last Updated on Monday, 9 March 2015, 21:32 by GxMedia A Wakenaam man was hacked with a cutlass about his body during an altercation Saturday night on that Essequibo Island. His assailant was arrested Monday and taken off island by investigators. Police said 27-year old Lillvamnauth “Dinkey Boy” Dhairam was chopped about his body after he pursued his attacker twice ...

Last Updated on Monday, 9 March 2015, 21:12 by GxMedia A businessman was Monday robbed of GUY$2.5 million shortly before he was about to purchase a quantity of fuel from the Guyana Oil Company’s (GuyOi) fuel depot at Providence, East Bank Demerara, police said. The robbery victim, 58-year old Jaiprashad Ketwaroo of Canal Number Two, West Bank Demerara , told ...

Last Updated on Monday, 9 March 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia A woman, who routinely shipped vegetables to Canada, was Monday jailed for 56 months and fined more than GUY$11 million for trafficking cocaine in boulanger to that North American country. Bhanmattie “Lalita” Persaud of 460 Grass Field, Lusignan, East Coast Demerara was found guilty by City Magistrate Judy Latchman for ...

Last Updated on Monday, 9 March 2015, 18:57 by GxMedia Attorney-at-Law, Joel Persid-Edmond and his wife, former Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Edmond, have endorsed the opposition’s unity coalition for the 2015 general and regional elections. They were introduced to the public at a community meeting held Sunday at Fourth Street, Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara where residents were told about the importance ...

Last Updated on Monday, 9 March 2015, 3:51 by GxMedia The People’s Progressive Party Civic’s (PPPC) prime ministerial candidate, Ambassador Elisabeth Harper  Sunday joined other senior party functionaries in eyeing the prospects of regaining majority control of the National Assembly at the upcoming polls. “I believe in Guyana. I believe in service to Guyana and I wholeheartedly believe that, given ...

Last Updated on Monday, 9 March 2015, 3:21 by GxMedia The daughter of a top Finance Ministry official was killed Sunday afternoon when the vehicle she and her husband were in ran off a bridge into the Pirara Creek. Her husband, who was driving the vehicle at the time of the mishap, was injured and he was flown to the ...