Reproduced from Jamaica Gleaner Livern Barrett, Senior Gleaner Writer The Narcotics Police made another major drug bust Monday when cocaine valued at just over JA$100 million was found among a shipment of rice at the Kingston Container Terminal (KCT). According to law enforcement sources, the rice was destined for a local distributor, who detectives were trying to locate up to late ...

A suspected bandit was shot dead Tuesday morning on the Liliendaal Railway Embankment Road and Giftland Mall Road, police said. Head of the Guyana Police Force’s Criminal Investigations Department, Senior Superintendent Wendell Blanhum said preliminarily investigators were told a businesswoman and her bodyguard had moments earlier left a business enterprise when they came under attack. Blanhum said the bodyguard opened ...

Two girls and one boy, age 12 and eight years, were Monday rescued from a home at Quarrie, a satellite of St. Ignatius Village, Region Nine. Police have since arrested and questioned their 49-year old father about persistent allegations that he sexually molests his children, government said. “The father continues to be questioned by police while investigations are ongoing,” government’s Department of ...

A day after government publicly called on the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) to conduct frequent random checks of aircraft and pilots, that regulatory agency announced that it would be intensifying its oversight of domestic carriers. The moves by government followed Sunday’s plane crash- the third in just over one month- that claimed the life of Pilot Imran Khan when ...

Bad weather, South America’s thick tropical jungle and rugged terrain on Monday conspired to delay the flying of the body of Captain Imran Khan to the coast one day after he perished in a plane crash, sources said. Members of the Special Forces of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) spent all day fetching the body along high and steep mountain ...

Minister of Education, Nicolette Henry is to relinquish responsibility for the Department of Culture, Youth and Sport from September 1, 2017 and hand it over to Minister of Social Cohesion, Dr. George Norton. “I believe that I have provided the leadership and policy direction that saw us through the two years,” she said. Henry, who has in the past been ...

A biker was late last night killed on the East Coast Demerara Public Road when a car collided with his bike. Dead is 26-year old Cleon Perreira of 119 Middle Walk, Buxton, East Coast Demerara. The father of three was employed as a driver at the Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL). The accident occurred on the Better Hope Public Road ...

Three youths were early Monday morning arrested after police alleged that a handgun and ammunition were found in a hire car in which they were travelling on the Leonora Public Road, West Coast Demerara. The youths, who were not named by police, are said to be ages 18 to 22 years and are from La Grange, West Bank Demerar; Utivlugt, ...

A Guyana Police Force constable and a New Amsterdam Town Constabulary Lance Corporal have been arrested while in the company of suspected criminals, police said. The constable, who was on sick leave, was arrested at about 4:30 Sunday afternoon with one .32 pistol and 10 live matching round concealed in his crotch, the force said in a statement. At the ...

In the wake of three plane crashes that claimed the lives of two pilots and resulted in injury to another in just over one month, government has ordered the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) to conduct regular random check of aircraft and crew. Minister of State, Joseph Harmon indicated that such inspections must seek to determine that the planes are ...