Convicted drug baron, Barry Dataram, and his wife, Anjanie Boodnarine, are back home and they had in their possession bogus Guyanese passports. They are in the names if David Persaud and Christine Persaud. The passport in the name of Persaud was issued on January 15, 2016 and the other in the name of David Persaud was issued on April 15, ...

BY JOHN MARZULLI NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Friday, October 14, 2016. NEW YORK DAILY NEWS.- The jury didn’t buy this guy’s fish story. The owner of a company that imports fish from Guyana was convicted Friday in Brooklyn Federal Court of smuggling 250 kilos of cocaine in a frozen shrimp-laden shipping container. Heeralall Sukdeo claimed he was duped by a relative ...

The President and Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Oil and Gas Association (GOGA, Bobby Gossai Jr. On Friday vehemently denied that he ever forged anyone’s signature while he was Secretary to the Board of Directors of the Guyana Gold Board. “At no given time did the Secretary used, reused (“lifted”), misrepresented or disguised the signature of the former chairperson ...

by Ivan Cairo Self-confessed Guyanese drug lord Barry Dataram was caught Friday afternoon by police in neighboring Suriname. Acting on a tip a police squad raided a home in Latour, south of the capital Paramaribo where the fugitive was hiding. He was nabbed along with his common-law wife ,Anjanie Boodnaraine by Suriname’s Special SWAT Team. He and Boodnaraine fled Guyana ...

26.5 grams of cannabis on Friday landed a man back in prison after he made an appearance before Magistrate Judy Latchman. It is alleged that on October 12, 2016 at Robb Street, Elijah Malali had 26.5 grams of cannabis in his possession for the purpose of trafficking. He pleaded not guilty. In her attempt at a bail application for her ...

A father of two is now on remand after appearing before Magistrate Judy Latchman on counts of robbery under arms and possession of gun and ammo. The charge against Neil Semple is that on September 30, 2016, at Eccles East Bank Demerara, he robbed Rita Arkhan of one Apple I-Phone valued at $100,000, GYD$700,000 in cash, and other items all ...

ExxonMobil ‘s  fine of US$76 billion by a court in the northern central African nation of Chad earlier this month is not expected to affect plans by the American oil giant to begin commercial production in Guyana by 2020. Minister of Natural Resources said it is clear that the company would have to earn money to pay the fine for ...

The Guyana government says it is securing foreign assistance to close in on gold smugglers, even as it chases a target of 600,000 ounces for this year. Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman said the international law enforcement expert would be coming to Guyana “to both advise and to help us with some interdictions.” “I don’t think that there are ...

The United Kingdom’s (UK)  leading think-tank  is helping Guyana decide whether it will be feasible to build an oil refinery here and, if so, what is the best model, Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman announced Friday. He said the New Producers Group of Chatham House- the Royal Institute of International Affairs- is expected to tell government by year-end whether ...

The Managing Director of Bai Shan Lin, Chu Hung Bo, is a principal in a new company that hopes to operate a quarry at the Amerindian village of Batavia in Region Seven but government does not appear to be in a hurry to give the green light. Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman said his ministry and the Guyana Geology ...