Last Updated on Monday, 12 April 2021, 22:10 by Denis Chabrol The Head of the Guyana Police Force’s Finance Department and a Mess Officer at the Brickdam Police Station have been charged with allegedly defrauding the law enforcement agency of a total of GYD$1.8 million for food. Police said only the Head of the Finance Department, Assistant Superintendent Kurt Smith ...
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President Ali, PNCR’s Aubrey Norton wrangle over racial discrimination claims
Last Updated on Monday, 12 April 2021, 15:24 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Monday slammed executive member of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Aubrey Norton for accusing the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) administration of discriminating against Afro-Guyanese. Dr. Ali charged that Mr. Norton’s claim of racial discrimination in favour of Indo-Guyanese was baseless and mischievous. “To ...
Read More »MURDER-SUICIDE: Mother, child now dead; eight year-old alive
Last Updated on Monday, 12 April 2021, 14:47 by Denis Chabrol The woman, who ingested poison and gave her children some to drink, has now died while her eight-year old child continues to cling to life at the Linden Hospital, police said Monday. Police said the woman, Temecia Sampson, was discovered motionless at about 12:22 AM Monday and pronounced dead ...
Read More »DJs, programme suspended after bottle-stabbing incident at HJ 94.1
Last Updated on Sunday, 11 April 2021, 20:14 by Denis Chabrol An independent radio disc jockey, known as DJ Yannick, has been allegedly injured by his selector, DJ Raw Gold. The incident occurred last night at about 8:45 at HJ Radio 94.1 on Lance Gibbs Street, Queenstown. Police say DJ Raw Gold allegedly broke a Guinness bottle and stabbed DJ ...
Read More »Pirara Bridge collapses; workers hoping for swift repairs to resume two-way Lethem traffic
Last Updated on Sunday, 11 April 2021, 14:45 by Denis Chabrol The Pirara Bridge in Region Nine collapsed overnight, effectively cutting off two-way vehicular traffic to and from Lethem, but workers are hoping to remove the truck and repair the wooden thoroughfare swiftly, Public Works Minister Juan Edghill said Sunday. “At this current time, we are trying to mobilise resources ...
Read More »253rd coronavirus death, 12 COVID lawbreakers arrested in Region One
Last Updated on Sunday, 11 April 2021, 12:01 by Denis Chabrol Guyana continues to record more COVID-19 deaths, even as the crackdown continues against persons violating the law aimed at curbing the spread of the viral disease. The Health Ministry says a 41-year old woman from East Berbice-Corentyne is the 253rd person to have died from the disease so far. ...
Read More »Teenaged mother leaves child in drain to die; jumps into canal when questioned
Last Updated on Sunday, 11 April 2021, 8:07 by Denis Chabrol A 21-month old child was left in a drain by his mother and it was later recovered and taken to the Leonora Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead, police said. “Enquiries disclosed that the now deceased child was left in a drain by his teenaged mother who claimed that ...
Read More »New York-based Guyanese banker charged with US$1.7 million bank fraud
Last Updated on Sunday, 11 April 2021, 7:44 by Denis Chabrol A Guyanese woman, who lives in Queens, New York, has been accused of swindling the bank she worked at of US$1.7 million, according to the United States Department of Justice. The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District ...
Read More »Suriname will quarantine all visitors even if COVID negative or vaccinated
Last Updated on Saturday, 10 April 2021, 12:47 by Denis Chabrol Passengers, bound for Suriname with the ferry, would not be allowed to board the vessel unless they have a negative Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Test result taken within 72 hours of their scheduled departure, Guyana’s Health Ministry said. Further, Guyanese authorities said even if passengers are COVID negative and ...
Read More »Guyana promises St. Vincent a “ship” load of volcano relief supplies; call issued for “immediate needs”
Last Updated on Saturday, 10 April 2021, 10:38 by Denis Chabrol Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves on Saturday said Guyana has promised to dispatch a ship-load of emergency relief supplies in the wake of the explosive eruption of the La Soufriere volcano Friday. “The President of Guyana has been in touch with me quite ...
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