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Monthly Archives: July 2017

Gina Miller on being Guyanese

Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 July 2017, 9:05 by Denis Chabrol by John Mair in London She is easily now the most recognised Guyanese in the UK.Gina Miller has shot to prominence in the last year by taking on-and winning against -the British government on the Brexit process. She objected to no Parliamentary discussion and won her case all the ...

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Baroness Amos calls for end to ‘racialised politics’ in Guyana

Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 July 2017, 9:02 by Denis Chabrol By John Mair She was the first Black British Cabinet minister in Britain so knows  bit about race and politics.She is not one for basing political parties on race as in Guyana she told a packed meeting at the Guyana High Commission in London on Tuesday night. This,the latest ...

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Alleged assassination plot unbelievable, says Crime Chief after verbal battle with Commissioner of Inquiry

Last Updated on Monday, 24 July 2017, 21:31 by Denis Chabrol The Head of Criminal Investigations Department at the Guyana Police Force, Senior Superintendent Wendell Blanhum  on Monday said an alleged plot to kill President David Granger was impossible to believe, but not before the Crime Chief and the Commissioner of Inquiry, Retired Assistant Police Commissioner, Paul Slowe engaged in ...

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Update: Seven escapees recaptured

Last Updated on Monday, 24 July 2017, 22:35 by Denis Chabrol Seven of the 13 prisoners, who escaped from the swampy area of the Lusignan Prison, were Monday evening recaptured, Head of the Criminal Investigations Department, police said. They are Winston Long and Teshawn Mc Kenzie were caught after 8PM at the Berbice Car Park, Georgetown. Police later reported that Jason ...

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Police release photos of 13 prison escapees

Last Updated on Monday, 24 July 2017, 20:16 by Denis Chabrol The Joint Services have intensified efforts to apprehend a total of seventeen prisoners, following the escape last evening of an additional 13, from the open holding area at the Lusignan Prison, government’s Department of Public Information and the Guyana Police Force reported. The 13 fugitives, burrowed their way out ...

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Remaining high-risk prisoners being relocated to Georgetown ‘brick’ Prison, after 13 escape

Last Updated on Monday, 24 July 2017, 18:20 by Denis Chabrol After 13 inmates escaped from the walled swampy area at the Lusignan Prison in what Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan said was an “embarrassing” situation for him, the remaining 86 were Monday afternoon being transferred to the brick prison, the lone remaining building at the Georgetown Prison complex. “The ...

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13 “real bad” prisoners escape from Lusignan Prison

Last Updated on Monday, 24 July 2017, 9:31 by Denis Chabrol Thirteen prisoners from the swamped area of the Lusignan Prison have escaped, police said. Head of the Criminal Investigations Department of the Guyana Police Force, Senior Superintendent Wendell Blanhum confirmed tbe escape. Another police source said the prisoners dug a hole and fled the highly walled area. Heavily armed ...

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Former Guyana Police spy chief, ‘Beetle’, found dead in US home

Last Updated on Sunday, 23 July 2017, 15:33 by Denis Chabrol Former Guyana Police Force spy chief, Retired Assistant Commissioner, James Mentore has been found dead in his home in New Jersey, United States, an official of an association of former Guyanese police said Sunday. He was 85 years old. Mentore’s daughter, who is in Guyana, on Sunday declined to ...

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East Coast Demerara businessman shot, robbed

Last Updated on Sunday, 23 July 2017, 8:44 by Denis Chabrol Police Sunday morning said they were investigating a robbery under arms committed on a 58 year old businessman of North Success, East Coast Demerara. The incident occurred at about 3 O’clock Sunday morning at he and his wife’s house, during which process he was shot. Investigation revealed that the ...

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Bar Association signals court action to compel president to comply with High Court orders; Granger sticks with preference for judicial person for GECOM Chairman

Last Updated on Sunday, 23 July 2017, 8:52 by Denis Chabrol Even as the Guyana Bar Association signaled that a Court Order could be obtained to compel President David Granger to comply with a High Court ruling on the process of appointing a Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), he maintained that preference must be for a judicial person ...

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