Last Updated on Thursday, 23 July 2015, 17:48 by GxMedia (DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE).- Guyanese pilot Khamraj Lall, who was caught with more than US$600,000 aboard his private jet while on a technical stop in Puerto Rico in November 2014 has now been charged with cocaine trafficking. Federal authorities announced on Thursday they have indicted a New Jersey man for his participation ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 23 July 2015, 17:37 by GxMedia Close associates of late Guyanese politician and renowned historian, Dr. Walter Rodney want at least three key witnesses to testify before the Commission of Inquiry before the probe team begins analysing evidence and compiling its report. The call by the Justice for Walter Rodney Committee  comes days before the three-member ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 23 July 2015, 17:25 by GxMedia Former Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Thursday distanced himself from a former bodyguard who is being questioned by police in connection with the gunning down of political activist, Courtney Crum-Ewing. Nandlall said Rajput Narine was hired about five days after Crum-Ewing was shot dead on March 10, 2015 at Diamond, ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 23 July 2015, 13:05 by GxMedia Present rainfall is expected to continue, intensifying into the evening. Residents of low lying communities such as Albouystown, sections of Queenstown, South Cummingsburg in Georgetown and others across the coastland, are asked to take precautions. Please call 226 1117, 226 1027 or email: infor@cdc.gy or kestercraig@hotmail.com if you need assistance or to share information on rising flood ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 23 July 2015, 0:53 by GxMedia Retired Assistant Police Commissioner, Steve Merai has been implicated in the gunning down of political activist Ronald Waddell by self-confessed death squad member, Shawn Hinds. Merai rubbished the accusation and said he would be contacting top police officers. “Two policemen were in the vehicle when Waddell died. A man named ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:32 by GxMedia Self-confessed death squad member, Shawn Hinds is wanted by police to assist them in their probe into a “serious offence.” Head of the Criminal Investigations Department, Senior Superintendent, Wendell Blanhum told Demerara Waves Online News that Hinds was expected to surrender in the company of a lawyer but so far ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 22 July 2015, 20:41 by GxMedia Police were Wednesday afternoon examining footage of an altercation that led to the shooting death of gay sex worker in the city during the pre-dawn hours, police said. Head of the Criminal Investigations Department, Senior Superintendent Wendell Blanhum told Demerara Waves Online News that no one has been arrested in ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 22 July 2015, 20:01 by GxMedia The Netherlands has offered to assist the Guyana in the formulation of a plan to improve drainage and irrigation country-wide.  This is according to Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson, who told a post-Cabinet press conference on Wednesday, that “we have…been offered and pending approval from the Ministry of Foreign ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 22 July 2015, 19:55 by GxMedia by Zena Henry The government feels somewhat vindicated in its claims that certain occurrences relating to crime are the work of ‘intellectual authors.’ That was the notion of Minister of State Joseph Harmon as he weighed in on the now viral interview of Shawn Hinds who recently confessed that he ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 22 July 2015, 18:08 by GxMedia by Zena Henry Guyana has put a one-week halt to the expansion work at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) and is expected during that time, to meet with executives of the China Harbour Engineering Corporation (CHEC) to hammer out differences concerning their contract. Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson ...