A foreign aircraft, believed to be laden with cocaine, Thursday afternoon made an emergency landing on a road at Orealla, Upper Corentyne River, sources said. Additional police and agents of the Cusroms Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) were said to be heading to the area, sources said. Sources said the pilot and another man are Brazilian nationals. The men have reportedly told ...

Eight retired senior police officers and a serving Assistant Police Commissioner have been charged with conspiracy to defraud the State of GYD$10 million and they were each granted GYD$100,000 bail. Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Retired Assistant Commissioner Paul Slowe was not present in court as he is overseas,  but he is named in the joint charge with the ...

Former Police Commissioner Leslie James has been asked to give investigators an account of how two members of the Police Service Commission (PSC) and several other retired senior police officers had been hired for more than GYD$10 million to review the Guyana Police Force’s internal rules, police said. Police Force spokesman, Mark Ramotar told reporters that the Head of the ...

As the Guyana High Court prepares to next Monday rule on whether the Police Service Commission (PSC) had unfairly bypassed a number of officers for promotion, two  PSC  Commissioners and several retired police officers are being investigated for several alleged offences. The Guyana Police Force confirmed that a number of ex police officers have been charged, released on bail and ...

The Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE) top Caribbean performer, Guyanese Zane Ramotar, plans to become a Physicist and return to Guyana to teach the subject at the tertiary level. “I am not entirely sure what job I want to have but I really would like it to be in the field of physics. That’s where my passion is; probably, maybe ...

by GHK Lall  A scan of SN’s May 19th frontpage turned up two gems.  They confirm how lost our main political groups are, and how distant from reality are the leaders of those groups; their credibility, never above average to begin with, takes yet another dive to the bottom.   Instead of being about a ‘can-do’ attitude’ that powers the ...

Veteran Guyanese politician and academic, Aubrey Norton on Tuesday night announced that he would  be contesting for the position of leader of his People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) and he hopes to rebuild his party and revive the coalition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC). “The direct answer to that is once the Congress of the People’s ...

The governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP) says the main opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) will be consulted about Guyana’s electoral reform but government will drive the process with help from organisations like the International Republican Institute (IRI). “It is downright naïve for anyone to think that such a process can be undertaken without the input of ...

The Ministry of Human Services on Tuesday said it has embarked on a drive to encourage more persons to become foster parents especially in the interior. Human Services Minister, Dr. Vindhya Persaud said official figures show that from January to May, there are 118 girls, 104 boys, and 128 parents in foster care.  The statistics also indicate that 79 children ...

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) has burned 290,000 packets of cigarettes in Lethem because they were poorly labelled, that agency said Tuesday. The regulatory agency said its Product Compliance Department ordered the destruction of 290 cases, containing 290,000 packs,  of imported cigarettes. GNBS explained that the cigarettes, which were branded US Mild 1 and imported by a city ...