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Long-serving Kaieteur News journalist, Dale Andrews died Saturday morning, co-workers confirmed. He succumbed to heart and other complications at a city hospital. Andrews was 45 years old. Editor-in-Chief of the Kaieteur News, Adam Harris expressed “shock” at the irreplaceable loss of Andrews who called in a news report Friday night although he was on three days sick leave. “Now, there ...

Muhammad Ali has died at the age of 74, a family spokesman has said. The former world heavyweight boxing champion, one of the world’s best-known sportsmen, died at a hospital in the US city of Phoenix, Arizona, after being admitted on Thursday. He was suffering from a respiratory illness, a condition that was complicated by Parkinson’s disease. The funeral will ...

A well-known Lindener was killed late Friday night when the CBR bike that he was riding collided with a car  in the bauxite town, residents said. Dead is 22-year old Michael Fox of Central Amelia’s Ward. Eyewitnesses said the collision occurred at about 10:30 PM at the Amelia’s Ward junction. Fox was rushed to the Mackenzie Hospital where he was pronounced ...

The then People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC)-led administration paid out  GYD$28 million to 35 persons over a four-year period from the National Communications Network (NCN) to perform duties on instructions from the Office of the President. The auditor, Parmessar Chartered Accountants, recommended that action be taken to recover the money that was paid to the monitors, but no specific process ...

The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) was not invoiced for more than GYD$22 million in political advertisements for the 2011 and 2015 general elections on the state-owned National Communications Network (NCN), according to a forensic audit report released Friday by the Finance Ministry. That figure includes almost $13 million in ads that were played free of cost for the 2011 campaign ...

Five men, who attacked several fishermen aboard a vessel in Nickerie, Suriname, were Friday charged with the murder of one of the victims. The Guyana Police Force said the Director of Public Prosecutions, Shalimar Ali-Hack advised that the men be charged for the offence. “The act was allegedly committed on May 28, 2016 in the Corentyne River where the deceased ...

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Russian state arms exporter Rosoboronexport has held talks on supplying Russian defense systems to the Co-operative Republic of Guyana with the country’s leadership, the corporation said Friday. Talks between the Rosoboronexport delegation, headed by deputy chief executive Sergei Goreslavsky, and the political and military leadership of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana were held in Georgetown with the aim of establishing and developing contacts ...

Two men long suspected of hiring cocaine mules to export the illicit drug out of Guyana were Friday slapped with charges of procuring at least three persons. They are Rolston Bacchus and Troy Sauers also known as Randy, Muslim and Biggs. They appeared before Chief Magistrate, Mc Lennan to answer the charges. Bacchus and Sauers, who have previous narco-traffficking offences ...

Former Public Works Minister, Jules “Dickie” Kranenburg has died and would be cremated later this month. He was 83 years old. Relatives said he died on May 30, 2016 after a “short illness.” Kranenburg, who served as Minister of Public Works from 1986 to 1992,  is scheduled to be cremated on June 10, 2016 Family members described him as a “stalwart and ...

Reproduced from New York Daily News The dangerous fugitive wanted for killing a teenage Brooklyn baby-sitter turned himself in Thursday. Taariq Stephens, a 24-year-old man with a half-dozen prior arrests and a .40-caliber submachine gun, was identified two days after the cold-blooded shooting of 16-year-old Shemel Mercurius as her terrified 3-year-old nephew watched, said NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce. ...