Last Updated on Monday, 9 September 2024, 20:06 by Writer Two prisoners were injured during a fire at the Georgetown Prison on Monday afternoon when one of them set fire to a mattress, the Guyana Prison Service (GPS) said. The GPS said the inmate, Delon Blake, who is of “unsound mind” and is serving a 20-year sentence for rape, allegedly ...

Last Updated on Monday, 9 September 2024, 20:02 by Writer Three persons, including a New York-based man, are wanted for the murder of two persons during a drive-by shooting on Joseph Pollydore (D’Urban) Street, Lodge, Georgetown, police said Monday. They were identified as 18-year-old Omalie Vieria of 47 Princes Street, Lodge, 30-year-old Dominique Darrel Osborne of 44 Princes Street, Lodge ...

Last Updated on Monday, 9 September 2024, 19:57 by Writer Two United States-made submachine guns, a preferred weapon by organised criminals, were seized in as many days, the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) said. The latest weapon of its type was seized on Monday at 73 Stewartville, West Coast Demerara, where four persons were arrested. CANU Head, James Singh said there ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 8 September 2024, 20:27 by Writer A woman, who moved out of her reputed husband’s home two months ago because he threatened to kill her, was on Sunday stabbed to death by him at her sister’s residence where he had gone to visit their children, police said. The assailant, 35-year-old James Lord, of Hill Foot, Soesdyke-Linden ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 8 September 2024, 19:34 by Writer Two young girls on Sunday drowned in the Enchanter Creek, Soesdyke-Linden Highway during a family outing to celebrate one of the now deceased girl’s birthday, the Guyana Police Force said. The girls, who perished at about 3:30 p.m., are 10-year-old Akira La Rose of Lot 95 Stewartville, West Coast Demerara ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 8 September 2024, 19:29 by Writer by GHK Lall With the permission of SN’s editorial team, I am writing to preempt its weekly Cost-of-Living series that comes out on Mondays. The objective is not to steal a march on SN, but to register what is anticipated as the grim cost-of-living (food) reality of Guyanese in another ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 8 September 2024, 19:12 by Writer Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Nigel Hughes wants all aspects of criminal defamation to be removed from Guyana’s law books and no enactment of any new such legislation such as amendments to the Cybercrime Act. “The old Act should be repealed and current Act should be repealed and ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 8 September 2024, 8:45 by Writer Former Finance Minister Winston Jordan on Friday recommended that government cut various types of “waste” and eventually introduce employee appraisal in order to pay teachers and other government workers increased salaries. Mr Jordan said if waste, due to shoddy public infrastructure projects, corruption, political projects for votes, improper maintenance, waste ...

Last Updated on Friday, 6 September 2024, 20:48 by Writer By Dr. Randy Persaud. Professor Emeritus It is astounding that the same people who call for magnanimity are the very ones who make a living by pushing poison pills into the public sphere on a daily basis. GHK Lall’s “Oil has embittered and divided Guyana even more” (KN, Sept. 2, ...

Last Updated on Friday, 6 September 2024, 20:18 by Writer Former long-serving Chairman of Region Four, Alan Munroe died on Friday at a city hospital, his party, the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) said in a statement. Mr Munroe had also served on the PNCR’s executive for several years. He was also a staunch Anglican and a congregant of Christ ...