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Five persons are expected to be charged with the home invasion and armed robbery committed on a family at Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara earlier this week. “Diligent work by ranks of “D” Division will soon see the perpetrators of the Armed Robbery committed on the Sookrams’ Family of 82 Samaroo Dam, Pouderoyen, WBD, which occurred last Thursday, being charged and ...

A businesswoman was early Saturday morning beaten several times to her face and head with a handgun during a robbery just outside her home at Better Hope, East Coast Demerara. She is 36 years old Novaha Boodhoo of 88 Pulwari Street, Better Hope, East Coast Demerara. She told police that one of the bandits beat her with the firearm after ...

Police say they are probing the shooting death of a car rental agent during the pre-dawn hours of Saturday morning at Regent and Bourda Streets, Georgetown. Dead is Stanley “Steve” Lovell, 30 years of 64 Prashad Nagar, Georgetown.  During the incident that occurred at about 3 AM, 21 years old Anthony Lall, a cleaner, of Bent Street, Wortmanville, Georgetown, was ...

The driver of a car has been arrested in connection with the hit-and-run road death of a former student of Mackenzie High School and Brickdam Secondary School during the early hours of Saturday morning, police said.l Preliminary information is that 16-year old Denelson Rose of Noitgedahe, Linden was returning to his home at Fairsrust after friends put him off at the Five ...

Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo said his administration had explored the possibility of giving Venezuela access to a part of the Atlantic Sea offshore Guyana without giving up any of the land territory as part of deal to settle the decades-old border controversy. “There were other options that involved a negotiated settlement which did not see any land concession, that the ...

Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo fears that an impending legal amendment that would compel commercial banks to release information to the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) would see massive withdrawals from commercial banks and general economic stability. “I am very fearful about what this could trigger. Many of them probably will pull their money out of the system and if that happens ...

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) plans to refund the salary increases that have been approved for the Opposition Leader and parliamentarians in keeping with its position that the pay-hikes are astronomical. Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo made the announcement at a news conference held at his party’s headquarters, Freedom House, saying the ministerial and parliamentary pay hikes could not be justified. ...

The way has been cleared for Local Government Elections to be held on any date between mid March and the end of May, 2016, according to thr Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). The elections management authority said it was now up to Minister of Communities, Ronald Bulkan to set the date within that time-frame. Following is a statement by GECOM. The ...

The son of former Prime Minister Samuel Hinds was Friday sentenced to two months imprisonment after he was convicted on a charge of assault causing actual bodily harm. Samuel Hinds Jr was, however, granted GUY$50,000 bail by Magistrate Annette Singh pending an appeal. He was found guilty for assaulting his sister-in-law Tenza Layne, causing her actual bodily harm on February ...

The Hindu Festival of Lights – Diwali- is turning out to be a political football, with the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) saying that government’s decision to name November 10 as the date has put it at odds with a large section of the East Indian community. Trinidad and Tobago will be celebrating Diwali on the same day as Guyana. ...