Last Updated on Monday, 25 September 2017, 4:59 by Denis Chabrol All companies that have formally expressed an interest in buying parts of the Guyana Sugar Corporation’s (Guysuco) operations will now have to resubmit their proposals to the holding company for government’s assets, the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), top officials said. NCIL’s Chief Executive Officer, Horace James ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 24 September 2017, 10:16 by Denis Chabrol Police say they are investigating a robbery/murder which occurred about 00:45h Sunday morning at lot 194 Freeman Street , East La Penitence. Dead is Fazal Shaheed,58,self employed of 18 Albion, Corentyne,Berbice. Talin Shaheed,50, of Toronto , Canada and Shalim Shaheed,53, of the USA, who were also in the house, ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 24 September 2017, 15:02 by Denis Chabrol Veteran Guyanese journalist, Nils Campbell, died early Sunday morning in Tampa, Florida after a prolonged illness, family members confirmed. He was in his 70s. Family members said he died in hospital. Campbell was hypertensive, and although he had suffered a stroke several years ago, had managed to be somewhat ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 23 September 2017, 21:14 by Denis Chabrol A large crowd of spectators gathered at the Friend’s Village dam to get a glimpse of the decomposed body of 13-year-old Leonard Archibald who was brutally sodomised and murdered by two known characters in the community. As the undertakers approached, loud wails could be heard coming from family members ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 23 September 2017, 16:46 by Denis Chabrol The decomposed body of the 13-year old  boy, who was raped and dumped in an unconscious state in the Berbice River six days after he went missing , was Saturday afternoon retrieved from the watery grave, police said. Demerara Waves Online News observed that the body of Leonard Archibald ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 23 September 2017, 14:56 by Denis Chabrol It was a sombre mood at the house of 13-year-old Leonard Archibald who disappeared last Sunday 17th September after leaving a birthday party with his sisters. The story of young Archibald tells a horrid tale of a teenage boy brutally raped and then his unconscious body dumped behind the ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 23 September 2017, 6:35 by Denis Chabrol A Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) enforcement officer was early Saturday morning shot and injured as he was about to enter his home at West Ruimveldt, Georgetown. Ariel Benjamin,35, was shot to his abdomen shortly after he entered his yard at 403 Cactus Street. He was rushed to a city ...

Last Updated on Friday, 22 September 2017, 19:00 by Denis Chabrol A British C-130 aircraft will not be available to transport tonnes of Guyana’s relief supplies to Antigua for distribution to several Caribbean islands that have been battered by several hurricanes in less than one month, even as Guyana’s private sector continued to provide more aid. Announcement that the C-130 ...

Last Updated on Friday, 22 September 2017, 18:18 by Denis Chabrol Two men have confessed to sodomising a 13-year old boy and dumping him overboard after he became unconscious, Assistant Police Commissioner, Paul Williams said. The acting Head of the Criminal Investigations Department of the Guyana Police Force said the prime suspects have since led crime scene detectives to an ...

Last Updated on Friday, 22 September 2017, 17:01 by Denis Chabrol Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo, along with members of the Civil Defence Commission (CDC), on Friday pledged their support to provide relief to residents of Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice who were affected by the storm on Monday. Fifty three-year-old Bohwanie Matalma, 23-year-old Brain Lee, 58- year-old Sheila Harrichan and ...