Last Updated on Sunday, 7 October 2018, 14:31 by Denis Chabrol A Queenstown, Essequibo Coast farmer is in police custody as investigators probe the shooting of another farmer in the Quwenstown backlands early Saturday morning, Guyana Police Force sources said. Sustaining pellet wounds to his middle lower back and left buttock is 54-year old Lynden Smith of 57 Queenstown. He ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 7 October 2018, 14:14 by Denis Chabrol Two bandits, who pretended to be policemen, slammed the living quarters of a security guard, forcing him to flee the premises after which the tied him up and stole GY$6.1 million dollars in items from a sand pit operation, police said. The incident occurred at Jason Baskarran Sand Pit, ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 7 October 2018, 13:55 by Denis Chabrol By GHK Lall In the middle of what could only be termed the new American Civil War, what does the Kavanaugh confirmation mean for minorities in the US?  Specifically, what does this development represent for Guyanese?  No matter how nuanced, it was a war over there; it is one ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 7 October 2018, 13:49 by Denis Chabrol By GHK Lall I would usually welcome and embrace any call by anyone from anyplace at anytime to remove prejudice from the midst of thinking, visions, and practices.  There was one such call uttered here recently by an influential figure.  I confess readily to instant skepticism; such is the ...