A top Suriname military officer has been arrested allegedly with more than 500 kilogrammes of cocaine, Surinamese media reported Sunday. He has been identified only as 56-year old Lieutenant  Steven J.  Waterkant.net reported that about $10,000 in cash was also found and seized in the vehicle he was driving. He was arrested at Saturday evening, December 4, near the checkpoint ...

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) and the Chinese business community have transformed Main Street  Avenue into a nighttime kaleidoscope of colours for the Christmas Season. Chief Executive Officer of GPL, Bharat Dindyal told Demerara Waves Online News/ News-Talk Radio Guyana that the Chinese Association of Guyana and Main Street occupants have contributed to the beautification and illumination of the ...

A man was arrested at a marijuana cultivation at St Cuthbert’s Mission, Linden-Soesdyke Highway while he was processing marijuana plants at one of the fields, the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) alleged on Saturday. That anti-drug agency identified the man as 23-year old Shafeer Sanichar, and alleged that he was under a makeshift tent. According to CANU, its officers discovered about ...

Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) on Saturday night called for tighter security of transshipped exports, even as it remained confident that about 1, 000 pounds of cocaine were not placed in the shipping container of rum before it left Guyana. The Guyana Revenue Authority and the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) have also both said that hard evidence shows that nothing illegal ...

New York-based anti-government activist Rickford Burke late Friday night dismissed the Guyana Police Force’s wanted notice based on accusation that he has committed sedition, incited racial hostility and inciting public terror. Declaring again that he was not afraid of the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) administration going after him because of his repeated claims of corruption, genocide racism against African  ...

The Guyana Police Force on Friday issued a wanted notice for New York-based anti-government activist, Rickford Burke, who has consistently labelled the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) administration racist, suggested the need for war and more recently has cited the need for a discussion on whether Afro and Indo-Guyanese should live in separate areas. “He called on the black population ...

Four Guyanese and one Barbadian have been arrested in Barbados’ territorial waters allegedly with a quantity of marijuana in their possession. The Head of Guyana’s Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit, James Singh would only say that his agency has been contacted by the Barbadian authorities, the investigation is ongoing and the two sides are collaborating. Barbados Today reports that the joint counter-narcotics ...

Former Finance Minister Winston Jordan was Thursday questioned by police in connection with alleged misconduct in public office. Police say that among the several allegations he faces is about the sale and vesting of the state’s largest wharf facilities located at Kingston, Georgetown, valued approximately $8 billion which was sold for $110 million. Police say that BK Marines Limited, paid ...

Former Finance Minister Winston Jordan was Thursday morning being questioned by officers of the Guyana Police Force’s Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU). Mr. Jordan, in a very brief telephone interview, confirmed that he was at SOCU , having been asked to go down. This comes against the background of repeated claims by the incumbent People’s Progressive Party Civic administration that ...

Two teenagers have been arrested and charged with break and enter and larceny of a cellphone store at Corriverton, Berbice. Police say that the 15-year-old male and 17-year-old boys were not required to plead to the indictable charges. Magistrate Mr Rabindranauth Singh remanded them to the juvenile holding centre until January 6. Police say the teenagers broke and entered and ...