Fire Sunday afternoon destroyed a store at Rosignol, West Bank Berbice, officials confirmed. The blaze destroyed Double R General Store. The cause of the blaze was not immediately known because fire fighters were still engaged mopping up operations, Fire Chief Marlon Gentle told Demerara Waves Online News (www.demwaves.com). He said there were no immediate reports of deaths or injuries. Fire ...

Almost three years after the National Assembly removed the mandatory death sentence for murders, Guyana’s Police Commissioner Leroy Brumell on Sunday called for convicted murderers to be hanged. “I am of the view, like you, that we should start hanging. Every week you hang two but as I am saying we don’t have the power,” he said. He, however, said ...

Police Commissioner, Leroy Brumell on Sunday appealed to investigators and civilians to give evidence in court to ensure the conviction of several persons charged in connection with a robbery-murder. “I want it to be known that this is not the end of it. We have done our part. It is now at the judicial stage and we expect that you ...

Community grounds across Guyana are being rehabilitated by government through a GUY$300 million dollar grant, and already one community centre hopes to tackle deviance among youths. Sport Minister, Dr. Frank Anthony says 26 community grounds in Region Four and 20 in Berbice have already received grants. He said none of the 155 grounds would be left out of the project. ...

(JAMAICA GLEANER).-Children may be in for a surprise when they visit the Hope Zoo this weekend, as 10 squirrel monkeys arrived on the island from Guyana on Thursday. Kenneth Benjamin, executive chairman of the Guardsman Group, announced this at the Rotary Club of Kingston’s weekly luncheon which was staged at the Treehouse at Hope Zoo in St Andrew. Benjamin, who ...

The Chief Executive Officer of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Ramesh Ghir on Saturday expressed disappointment at concerns raised by Fly Jamaica earlier in the day about the movement of drugs through the airport. Fly Jamaica’s executive, Roxanne Reece has called for a secure, efficient and more reliable system to help stem the flow of narcotics. She reasoned that ...

Fly Jamaica intends to survive competition by using tourism-related events to maintain a constant passenger load, a top airline official here said Saturday. “We are not just sitting and waiting on passengers to come to us. We are coming out there and we are offering you different events in our four destinations,” said Roxanne Reece, an executive of Fly Jamaica. ...

In the wake of concerns by stallholders, the decrepit Kitty Market is to be demolished in the coming weeks but there is no idea when it will be rebuilt. Town Clerk, Carol Sooba said plans are being made to identify accommodation on Kitty Public Road to relocate the vendors before a private group demolishes the Heritage building. “We have to ...

Although the International Coastal Cleanup exercise continues to rake in tons of garbage along Guyana’s shoreline each year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) believes that the activity is slowly winning hearts and minds. Hundreds of persons, including students and adults, participated in the ICC exercise at the Georgetown seawall on Saturday where they removed hundreds of jumbo garbage bags full ...

Suriname’s President, Desi Bouterse was allegedly in close contact with convicted Guyanese drug baron, Shaheed “Roger” Khan while he was a parliamentarian, the Dutch publication NRC Handelsblad reported on Saturday. The NRC says the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has hard evidence that “President Desi Bouterse in the period he was parliamentarian had close contacts with one of the ...