Last Updated on Sunday, 6 May 2018, 15:01 by Denis Chabrol by Ivan Cairo A prime suspect, who allegedly confessed to being one of the pirates responsible for the deadly attack off Suriname’s east coast was Sunday morning arrested by fishermen and handed over to police in that former Dutch colony. Lieutenant Colonel Jerry Slijngard, commander of the Coast Guard, ...
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Security guard dies in accident
Last Updated on Sunday, 6 May 2018, 15:17 by Denis Chabrol A security guard was Sunday morning killed in a road accident when the car he was travelling in ended in a trench at Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara, police said. Dead is 47-year old Garfield Mc Pherson of Bachelor’s Adventure, East Coast Demerara. Police later said Diana Mc ...
Read More »British colonial sedition law crushed free expression by Blacks; has no place in independent Guyana
Last Updated on Saturday, 5 May 2018, 6:02 by Denis Chabrol United States-based History Professor, Nigel Westmaas has slammed the sedition clause in Guyana’s Cybercrime Bill, saying it is archaic and that dates back to 1917 when British colonisers had clamped down on freedom of expression by Blacks. Westmaas, also a former University of Guyana (UG) History lecturer, called for ...
Read More »Caribbean Court of Justice allows Guyanese architect firm to recover GY$15 million
Last Updated on Saturday, 5 May 2018, 6:36 by Denis Chabrol Guyana’s New Building Society Ltd was ordered by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to pay Rodrigues Architects Ltd for services provided in relation to the construction of New Building Society Ltd’s head office. The CCJ says it discharged a stay of execution that had been granted in a lower ...
Read More »Region One residents get birth certificates
Last Updated on Saturday, 5 May 2018, 6:24 by Denis Chabrol Several residents of Sebai, Eclipse Falls and Citrus Grove in Region One uplifted their birth certificates over the weekend, April 28-29; some, for the first time. A team led by Junior Minister of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs, Valerie Garrido-Lowe and Region One Member of Parliament (MP), Richard Allen distributed the ...
Read More »Four regions get newly-graduated Patient Care Assistants
Last Updated on Saturday, 5 May 2018, 6:10 by Denis Chabrol Approximately seventy-four residents from Regions Three, Four, Five and Ten have been trained to be Patient Care Assistants (PCAs). Addressing the newly trained PCAs at a graduation ceremony this morning, at the Georgetown Club, Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence urged them to be the catalyst that will transform ...
Read More »Suriname police appeal urgently to relatives for identification documents of piracy victims
Last Updated on Friday, 4 May 2018, 15:27 by Denis Chabrol With 12 fishermen-many believed to be Guyanese- still unaccounted for following last Friday’s piracy off the coast of Suriname, police in that formrr Dutch colony on Friday appealed to relatives to provide information about those still missing. Suriname’s Coast Guard recovered two more bodies on Friday (May 4). With ...
Read More »Guyanese in Berbice held for questioning about deadly piracy attack off Suriname’s coast
Last Updated on Friday, 4 May 2018, 10:39 by Denis Chabrol As Guyanese police arrested a Berbician in connection with last week Friday’s piracy attack that has so far left 11 persons unaccounted for, one of the surviving fishermen has been recounting his experience at the hands of the merciless pirates who chopped and threw several of his colleagues overboard ...
Read More »Lorry driver jailed for causing the death of 12 Berbicians
Last Updated on Friday, 4 May 2018, 7:52 by Denis Chabrol A 42 year old man of Black Bush Polder on Thursday was sentenced to nine years imprisonment altogether, by Justice Brassington Reynolds at the Berbice Assizes. He was found guilty by a mixed jury on a 10-2 majority, after causing the death of twelve persons by dangerous driving on ...
Read More »Weak, badly injured fisherman rescued; suspected pirate arrested off Suriname’s coast; Guyana in mourning
Last Updated on Thursday, 3 May 2018, 16:25 by Denis Chabrol By Ivan Cairo PARAMARIBO – Although the chance of finding survivors is getting smaller by the hour, rescue workers have found one of the victims of the deadly attack on four fishing boats on Friday. The man was said to be in critical condition was rushed to the hospital ...
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