Guyanese police are doing well in detecting murders compared to their counterparts in Trinidad and Tobago, Head of the Criminal Investigations Department, Deputy Police Commissioner  Wendell Blanhum said on Tuesday. He told the annual departmental awards ceremony that Guyana’s detection rate is at “an all-time high” with 80.3 percent compared to Trinidad and Tobago whose rate is 14 percent. “We ...

Well-known Sworn Land Surveyor Ricky Oswald Ambrose was fatally wounded in Region Seven and his licenced handgun, raw gold and cash were not found on him, and police have fended off claims by the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) that its response was “poor” because law enforcement agents arrived at the scene until Monday. Police said Ambrose,40, who ...

The International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly-Guyana (IDAPADA-G) on Monday welcomed The Netherlands apology for the role that European country had played in the capture and enslavement of millions of Africans, many of whom had been brought to Guyana to work on plantations. “We consider this apology a significant step in the acceptance of guilt and the demonstration ...

Health facilities in Guyana’s interior regions are to be upgraded over the next three years to the value of GY$125 billion, President Irfaan Ali announced during Monday’s commissioning of the upgraded Mabaruma Smart Hospital. He said that upgrades would give the “best possible working conditions” and provide the areas, which include Lethem, Kato, Mahdia, Kamarang, Mabaruma, Moruca, Bartica and Port ...

The 15-year old Christ Church Secondary School student, who was rescued by a football coach from further beating by schoolmates, has been discharged from hospital, even as investigators prepare to charge the two alleged perpetrators, officials said Monday. A Georgetown Public Hospital official said the lad last week underwent successful maxillo-facial surgeries and was discharged from that section of the ...

A number of staff members of the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security are calling for the removal of their Minister, Dr Vindhya Persaud on grounds of alleged mismanagement and a bundle of failed initiatives. Demerara Waves Online News has been able to independently confirm that workers are still aggrieved, although they were able to convince the government to ...

In the wake of the death of two tourists in Guyana’s interior within the past two months, Guyana’s tourism industry stakeholders have laid the groundwork for stringent safety and security rules which could eventually become laws or regulations, officials said. Director of the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA), Kamrul Baksh suggested that recent separate deaths occurred because of a breach of ...

A house roof was blown off and several other houses were damaged by high winds on the West Coast Demerara early Sunday morning, and already assistance is on its way, an official said. Region Five (Mahaicony-West Berbice) Representative,  Faizal Jafferally told Demerara Waves Online News that a house roof was blown away and zinc sheets from  four other roofs were ...

In the wake of the resignation of Mrs Geeta Chandan-Edmond from the post of General Secretary of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR),  Ganesh Mahipaul and Dawn Hastings are being touted as replacements, according to well-places sources. Efforts to contact PNCR Leader Aubrey Norton were futile. The last PNCR’s Central Executive Committee last met about one and a half weeks ...

The Buxton Youth Developers will receive some GY$1 million from the government to ensure the further development of youngsters in and around the community, the government’s Department of Public Information (DPI) reported. President,  Mohamed Irfaan Ali made the commitment Friday while giving remarks at the opening of the newly-upgraded Vigilance Play Field,  East Coast of Demerara. Dr Ali said his ...