Two policemen were Thursday charged with facilitating the escape of a murder suspect from lawful custody and they were granted bail. The charges were arraigned before Magistrate Clive Nurse at the La Grange Magistrates Court, West Bank Demerara. Constable 20836 Garfield Brown and Constable Smith were granted GIUY$75,000 bail each. The facts are that they allegedly allowed murder suspect, Troy ...

A man was shot dead less than 10 minutes after he grabbed a bag of money belonging to Black and Decker Hardware Store, Main Street, Georgetown. The bandit has been identified as Lloyd Hazel. Police said a firearm was recovered from the bandit. Well-placed sources said Hazel and an accomplice snatched the bag from a taxi that was taking an ...

The Peoples National Congress Reform (PNCR) is preparing the groundwork should its leader, Retired Brigadier David Granger be subpoenaed to appear before the Commission of Inquiry into the bomb-blast death of Guyanese political activist, Dr. Walter Rodney. Attorney-at-Law, Basil Williams told Demerara Waves Online News that the PNCR was ready for the appearance of Granger, a former Commander of the ...

A Guyanese woman who allegedly attempted to smuggle cocaine to Spain through the post office was Friday arraigned on a cocaine trafficking charge and remanded to prison. She is 49-year old Sandra Daniels of 2 Dennis Street, Sophia, Greater Georgetown. Appearing before City Magistrate Judy Latchman on May 8, she pleaded not guilty to having been in possession of 274 ...

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) has already surpassed its first crop target but the President of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), Komal Chand says there is nothing to shout about because it was a low target. “First of all you have to recognise that the target was low…The fact that you have a low target and you ...

Guyana’s mining and construction sectors are now poised to benefit from lower fuel consumption hydraulic excavators. They are being supplied by Machinery Corporation of Guyana (MARCORP) Guyana  Limited.  Company officials stressed the greater fuel efficiency of the new D2 series hydraulic excavators during a demonstration exercise at Providence, East Bank Demerara. The Government Information Agency (GINA) reported that Prime Minister ...

A graphic designer was jailed Thursday for being in illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition with which he had been caught more than three months ago. Dellon Morgan of 149 DÁndrade Street, Newtown-Kitty, Georgetown was sentenced to three years each for being in illegal possession of one Luger pistol and illegal possession of four rounds of 9 MM ammunition ...

Children living in Ituni, Region 10 and its surrounding areas can now view the Ministry of Education’s Guyana Learning Channel with the recent completion of the brand new Ituni transmission facility, the Ministry of Education announced on Thursday. This new transmission facility is the fifteenth of its kind to be completed across Guyana, as the Ministry intensives efforts to broaden ...

A woman was Thursday afternoon arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle cocaine in cosmetics to Spain, a senior official of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) said. The official said the narcotic was yet to be weighed and the suspect was expected to be interviewed by investigators later on the day. She is 48 years old and lives in Sophia. ...

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Thursday ordered Guyana to repay a Surinamese beverage manufacturer more than US$6 million in environmental tax that had been levied on non-returnable bottles because it amounts to a discriminatory import duty that violates Caricom’s Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas (RTC). The CCJ took note of the fact that the Guyana government had taken steps ...