The Guyana Police Force on Wednesday identified the 24-year old man who has admitted to killing prominent secondary school teacher and actor Kerwyn Mars alias Sir Mars, even as a post mortem shows his chest was crushed and he was stabbed numerous times. The civilian law enforcement agency named the suspect as Brian Richards of John Fernandes Limited Squatting Area, ...
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Guyana welcomes St Lucia joining CCJ as final appeal court
Guyana’s Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Tuesday welcomed St Lucia’s decision to join the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as that island’s final appeal court for civil and criminal cases. “The government and people of St Lucia must be commended for this important step. It augurs well for Caribbean jurisprudence and it augurs well for the integration movement in the ...
Read More »Suspect in Sir Mars’ death arrested, admits responsibility
A suspect in the killing of prominent secondary school teacher and actor, Kerwyn Mars alias ‘Sir Mars’, was arrested on Tuesday and has since admitted to being responsible for his death , police said. The Guyana Police Force declined to identify the suspect, but said he was “cooperating with the investigators” who were questioning him at the headquarters of the ...
Read More »Sir Mars, suspect stabbed each other- police
Well-known Guyanese teacher and actor, Kerwyn Mars alias Sir Mars, and the prime suspect in his killing knifed each other before his car was reversed and pinned him to a nearby concrete fence, police said. “Investigations revealed that Mars and the suspect had a ‘misunderstanding’ that escalated inside the vehicle. As a result, both parties armed themselves with knives and ...
Read More »“Demon”, accomplice charged with assaulting policeman
A well-known businessman from Vigilance, East Coast Demerara and a construction worker from nearby Friendship have been charged with assaulting a policeman to prevent them from being arrested. Mark “Demon” Cromwell,41, and Kessee Edwards were also charged with several offences connected to the fracas that occurred on Friday afternoon on the Turkeyen Access Road, Greater Georgetown. Mr Cromwell was charged ...
Read More »Deported 20 years ago, Guyana-born Brooklyn man’s extraordinary fight to return reaches an end
Reproduced from Gothamist By Matt Katz Published May 1, 2023 at 6:01 a.m. Lorenzo Charles, born in Guyana and raised in Brooklyn, was deported in 2003 following what he described as a wrongful conviction for attempted burglary. That should have been the end of Charles’ American story, as it is for so many legal immigrants convicted of crimes and then ...
Read More »GTT-WANSAT satellite internet service to boost health care delivery, education, border security
GTT, Inc. (GTT), a leading provider of technology services in Guyana and WANSAT Networks Inc. (WANSAT), a Guyanese-owned Internet Service Provider with a focus on providing satellite broadband connectivity to rural and hinterland areas have announced the launch of their partnership “Connectivity Anywhere”, a new satellite internet service. GTT says the fast, affordable, and reliable connectivity to rural and hinterland ...
Read More »Home Ministry’s Permanent Secretary should be sent on leave- opposition
Home Affairs Ministry Permanent Secretary Mae Toussaint Jr.-Thomas should be sent on leave until there is a full clearance that she did not violate any laws that led to the seizure of her cellphone by United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents on her arrival in that North American country, the opposition said on Tuesday. “If this government was ...
Read More »Mae Thomas to remain Home Affairs Ministry’s Permanent Secretary- Benn
Home Affairs Minister Robeson on Monday said Mrs Mae Toussaint Jr.- Thomas would remain Permanent Secretary of his ministry, although her visa has been revoked. “This has nothing to do about the question of retaining her. There is no question about that…I’m surprised that question would be raised,” he said when asked by Demerara Waves Online News. The Home Affairs ...
Read More »Proposed new spy agency can deploy intelligence agents overseas; have sweeping powers to access information
The Guyana government is preparing to pass new legislation to establish a National Intelligence and Security Agency, which will report directly to the President, and can deploy agents to foreign diplomatic missions as well as collect information from any public authority despite existing that may prohibit the disclosure of such information. According to a copy of the National Intelligence and ...
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