Crime
Confessed killer of Canadian mining official charged with murder
Anthony Ragnauth A man, who police said confessed to the killing of an official of Guyana Goldfields, was Tuesday arraigned...
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Woman, charged for death of husband, granted bail
A woman, who admitted to being responsible for the death of her husband, was Tuesday arraigned on a charge of...
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Prison officers arrested after collecting marijuana at hospital
The marijuana that prison authorities said was found in the possession of a prison officer. Two officers have since been...
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Alleged human trafficking victims in protective custody
Tanisha Williams-Corbin, Coordinator, Countering Trafficking in Persons Unit, Ministry of Social Protection Eight of sixteen young ladies who were rescued...
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Woman admits to responsibility for husband’s death
A 28-year-old mother of three of Soesdyke Back Road, East Bank Demerara on Friday admitted she strangled her husband twelve...
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Wife, husband in murder-suicide
A man, who stabbed to death his common-law wife, on Friday morning died about seven hours later as a result...
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Guyana wants to question seven persons in Suriname about deadly piracy attack
The body of a fisherman being taken ashore Wednesday night in Suriname. Guyana wants Suriname to send several Guyanese back...
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Caribbean Court’s incoming President wants coordinated overhaul of “broken” criminal justice system; says inconsistent rule of law major barrier to Guyana’s prosperity
The CCJ's President-elect, Justice Adrian Saunders delivering a lecture on "The Rule of Law and the Caribbean Court of Justice"...
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Jagdeo supports non-custodial sentences for marijuana possession; says no to cultivation, sale
FLASH BACK: A section of a large marijuana farm at WISROC, Linden. Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo says he is in...
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BREAKING: Guyanese Derrick Patterson pleads guilty to cocaine trafficking in Grenada; fined US$27,000
Derrick Patterson (photo from Now Grenada) Forty-seven year old Guyanese, Derrick Patterson Thursday afternoon pleaded guilty in a Grenada court...
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