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Newly-appointed Guyana Police Force Commander for Region One (Barima-Waini), Superintendent Krishna Ramana at the weekend led a team of law enforcers on an outreach to several communities. The force said that exercise was part of its commitment to fostering a strong relationship between law enforcement and the community.”Mr Ramana, along with other ranks, visited Yarakita, White Water, and Wauna villages, ...

The non-governmental Bartica United Youth Development Group (BUYDG) on Tuesday urged the government and opposition to take steps to ensure that prisoners could vote in Guyana’s elections. “All qualified persons, whether held under the presumption of innocence or after being convicted, pleaded guilty, sentenced to prison, held in any State custodians etc. are given the right to exercise their franchise ...

Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Nigel Hughes’ claim that there is no nursery school building at Toka, North Rupununi, resulting in classes being held under a tree is being called into serious question as evidence has been provided that there is a building, though defective. A woman named Indranee Roopsind, in a Social Media comment on Mr Hughes’ ...

Four men tied up an off-duty fireman, who was moonlighting as a taxi driver, bundled him into the back seat of his car and drove the vehicle to rob a businesswoman at Ruimzight, West Coast Demerara, but eventually one of them was caught and he has since identified his accomplices, police said. The fireman, 50-year-old Garfield “Carry” Benjamin, is attached ...

The Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr Ralph Gonsalves on Saturday declared that he is a “friend” of Guyana and its President, Irfaan Ali, but in an effort to settle the dispute over the 2020 election results, he sole interest was to ensure that the laws were obeyed. “All I was asking for in Guyana was that ...

St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves on Saturday said the declaration of President Nicolás Maduro as the winner of last July’s election was in the best interest of Guyana’s oil sector. He told Demerara Waves Online News in Georgetown shortly after witnessing the last rites for the late Guyanese and international statesman, Sir Shridath Ramphal, that ...

Police said they were investigating the early Friday night shooting death of a mechanic at Vlissengen Square, between West Ruimveldt Front Road and Mandela Avenue. He has been identified as 23-year-old Troy “Kelly” Rodrigues of 165 Leopold Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown. Police said he was shot to top his forehead, and no spent shell was found at the scene. Investigators were ...

A 28-year-old man was killed and two others injured in an early Saturday morning road accident when the driver lost control of the car on the Cottage, Mahaicony Public Road and slammed into a fence and a utility pole. The dead man has been identified as Collin Dowden of Lot 2 Belle Vue, West Coast Berbice. Those injured and transferred ...

Police were Saturday searching for a minibus, with a driver, which allegedly struck down and killed a 62-year-old man in the vicinity of ‘Church of God Road’, Buxton, East Coast Demerara. Police said the minibus that was involved in the accident at about 11 o’clock Friday night was bearing licence number BAC 4129. Police said Adree Slowe was crossing the ...

Original story was published here on Business Insider. A federal judge in Manhattan has found former president Donald Trump liable for damages in a hotly-contested copyright battle over Eddy Grant’s ’80s dance hit “Electric Avenue.” Business Insider reported that in a 30-page decision, the judge on Friday delivered a one-two blow that essentially ends the case pretrial, with nothing now left to ...