Two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun, stole a minibus from the driver at Swan, Soesdyke-Linden Highway  late Sunday night when he stopped because the vehicle was overheating, police said. The 25-year old driver said the bandits carted off GYD$20,000 cash and one Toyota Pitbull bus bearing registration number BWW 1914 valued GYD$2,980,000 The driver told investigators ...

A 19-year old man was caught early Monday morning shortly after he allegedly stole a car from a yard at La Bonne Intention (LBI), East Coast Demerara, police said. He has since been handed over to police. The theft allegedly occurred at about 12:30 AM at Cherry Field, LBI.  The car belongs to 43-year old Annand Gaj of The Blue ...

A 21-year old man allegedly abducted his 17-year old girlfriend and locked her in a room at his home, after breaking her cellphone because she refused to delete her Facebook account, police said. The Guyana Police Force said the incident occurred between June 17 and 19, 2021 at West Canefield East Canje Berbice. Police said the matter was reported to the ...

Head of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU), James Singh on Sunday expressed concern that two of his agents have been arrested for resisting police enforcement of the COVID-19 curfew. He says the agents, each with two years service, recently underwent anger-management training. Mr. Singh says after police complete their investigation, CANU will seek an explanation from the agents to determine ...

One of two Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) agents has been arrested after they allegedly resisted orders by police to shut down a bar in Berbice in keeping with the COVID-19 curfew. One of the CANU agents allegedly opened fire with his 9 MM service pistol, injuring his colleague. The incident occurred at about 12:30 Sunday morning at  Sea Breeze Bar ...

The Medical Council of Guyana on Saturday endorsed the use of the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine as one of several that is being used to protect people against becoming seriously sick or dying from COVID-19. The Council, which regulates medical practitioners, said all of the available data about Sputnik shows that it is considered safe by many countries although it ...

The French Red Cross’ Regional Intervention Platform for the Americas and the Caribbean has rushed 9.45 tons of various items aboard a French military vessel, Dumont d’Urville, to Guyana to assist with flood relief, the French Embassy in Suriname. The mission said the consolidated “large donation” was dispatched to Guyana “considering the recent floods and the state of emergency claimed ...

Health  Minister Dr. Frank Anthony on Saturday refused to formally provide specific information about the batch of 200,000 doses of  Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine, but instead reiterated that all of the required procedures have been followed before and after the jabs were imported. Dr. Anthony said that after the vaccines arrived here , the Ministry of Health checked all of ...

The North Ruimveldt Multilateral School was Saturday afternoon burning by fire of unknown origin, multiple sources confirmed. A section of the decades-old school has already been badly damaged by the mid-afternoon fire. “this is an extremely unspeakable loss here but is 0one that we’ll overcome,” Education Minister Priya Manickchand at the fire scene. She assures that all efforts would be ...

Months after refusing to place elected representatives from a number of smaller parties that had been part of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) in the National Assembly because he believed that they had not  won at least 7,000 votes at last year’s elections, the Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), David Granger said his umbrella body was ...