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(NEW YORK’S newsday.com) A New York Police Department (NYPD) plainclothes officer died late Tuesday night at a Harlem hospital after a suspect shot him in the head during a foot pursuit in East Harlem, Police Commissioner William Bratton said at a news conference at the hospital. Bratton identified the slain officer as Randolph Holder, 33, a five-year veteran assigned to the ...

An Aviation Security agent attached to a private company contracted by an airline was fired for stealing US currency from an outgoing passenger at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), the airport said in a statement. The passenger was about to board a Caribbean Airlines flight to New York when the incident occurred. The female officer was processing the passenger ...

While a United States-headquartered airline company is looking to expand its reaches and invest in the local agricultural sector, it may have some tussles to overcome before it can do such. Dynamic Airways on Tuesday announced that it would be looking to fill a ten-tonne space on its daily flights with local produce and “flood” the New York Market. Local ...

At 0820h. today Tuesday October 20, 2015, Marc Angoy of Buzz Bee Dam, Craig, EBD, turned himself in to the police at Grove Police Station. He was wanted by the police in relation to the murder of thirteen-month-old Arianne Gill who was shot and killed on October 18, 2015, in her home at Eastville Housing Scheme, ECD.

A long-standing member of Guyana’s private sector corps has given his no objection to the recent move by the APNU+AFC administration to increase the salaries of Government Ministers by 50%. The move, which has attracted criticism and condemnation from others, Former Private Sector Commission (PSC) Chairman Gerry Gouveia says that the timing may have been bad but that does not ...

(TIMES UNION).- A citizen of Guyana admitted trafficking more than $400,000 worth of fake credit cards in grocery stores across New York and New England after an investigation by the Secret Service. Georgette Jackman, 37, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court Oct. 16 in Albany to conspiracy to commit access device fraud, aggravated identity theft, and trafficking in counterfeit access devices. Jackman, ...

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo Monday night vowed to reverse the hefty salary increases to ministers if his People’s Progressive Party (PPP) wins the next general elections. ‎”When we win the elections we may very well do that…If we are opposed to it now, we will reverse it,” he told Demerara Waves Online News. Maintaing that the 50 percent increase in ...

The National Industrial Commercial and Investments Limited (NICIL) on Monday denied that anyone has been creamed off funds from that holding company for government’s assets and rejected claims by a Forensic Auditor that its monies should have at all times been deposited into the Consolidated Fund. “The facts contained in the Report will ultimately show that there has been and ...

Guyana will next month formally activate a total aeronautical surveillance system to improve the management of flying aircraft, but this will be unable to detect illegal planes in the country’s airspace. The announcement was made Monday at tge opening of the Aviation Conference 2015. Director General of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), Chitranie Heeralall told the opening of the ...

Police were up to Sunday night hunting down a 45-year old man who opened fire at the home of his ex reputed wife, killing her one-month old granddaughter and injuring her teenage daughter. Dead is 13-month old Ariane Gill. Injured is 12 year old Ashley Whittington. She was shot twice in the left thigh, police said. Commander of the East ...