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The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) Saturday night says its Chairman, Clinton Williams, was not alone in securing interests in mining permits because it was the embattled Commissioner, Rickford Vieria, who had granted approval. According to the statement, Williams is not the only GGMC Board member who has mining interests and at any rate this is guided by the ...

Police said that at about 1030h. today Saturday December 05, 2015, police ranks on “Operation Dragnet” stopped a motor vehicle with obscure number plates at Regent Street and Avenue of the Republic, Georgetown. Investigators said a search was conducted during which an unlicensed sawn-off pump action shotgun and an unlicensed .38 revolver with six matching rounds were found. The vehicle ...

A Surinamese woman, who was convicted for drug trafficking, escaped from the New Amsterdam Prison early Saturday morning. A high-ranking olice officer in the Berbice Division said the woman was re-arrested at Springlands before she could have crossed the Corentyne River to her native country. The police officer said the yet to be identified woman scaled the prison fence by ...

A policeman and another man have confessed to  hijacking a car and robbing the driver late last month. Police said diligent investigations by the police led to the arrest of two suspect Thursday December 03, 2015, in connection with an armed robbery committed on a taxi-driver at Bachelor Adventure, East Coast Demerara, on November 28, 2015.  The two men, one ...

Three suspected bandits were Friday afternoon nabbed shortly robbing the AH&L Kissoon outlet on Main Street, Georgetown. Police said that at about 2:45 PM Friday December 04, 2015, three men armed with handguns entered the outlet and held up the supervisor, a clerk and a customer and took away an undisclosed sum of cash and two cell phones and escaped in a ...

The fate of  Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) Commissioner, Rickford Vieria and a number of other senior officials of that regulatory agency up to Friday hanged in the balance, as all parties await government’s response to a recommendation by the Board of Directors. The Board has also considered the future of two senior managers of the agency, saying that ...

GEORGETOWN – Effective December 07, 2015, the Consular Section of the U.S Embassy will implement a notable change to its Non-Immigrant Visa process. All approved visa applicants will no longer return to the Embassy to uplift their approved visas. This service is now being provided by the local DHL office, located at 50 E Fifth Street, Alberttown, Georgetown. Applicants will ...

Police Thursday night made a huge marijuana haul in the city. Investigators said that at about 9PM Thursday December 03, 2015, anti-narcotics police searched a motor vehicle on Mandela Avenue, Georgetown, during  which 76.6 kilograms of marijuana were found. A man has been arrested and is in police custody assisting with the investigations. In recent days, there has been an outcry ...

Following a call by President David Granger earlier this year to make Bartica a model green town, Presidential Advisor on the Environment, Rear Admiral (Ret’d ) Gary Best and his team Thursday introduced an ambitious  “Bartica Green Plan” to the Regional Democratic Council and the Interim Management Committee, the Ministry of the Presidency said in a statement. The Plan covers ...

A go-fast boat, believed to have been involved in illegal activities has been discovered in the area of Shell Beach, North West District, a senior official of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) confirmed. Head of CANU, James Singh said nothing illegal was found aboard the vessel but he declined to say whether anyone had been detained or arrested. The ...