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Reproduced from St. Lucia Times (ST. LUCIA TIMES).-A visually impaired Guyanese cricketer, here for a blind cricket tournament, died on Friday, July 31 during a beach outing, organizers of the tournament have confirmed. The deceased has been identified as 28-year old Gordon Sandiford, who was a member of the Guyana team. An official of the Saint Lucia Blind Welfare Association (SLBWA), ...

At about 1325h. today Sunday August 02, 2015, Cuban national Mirko Cardenos, 35 years, was walking along Regent Street, Georgetown, when he was attacked by two men, one of whom was armed with a firearm. Mirko Cardenas was shot to his chest and robbed of $9,000.00 by the perpetrators who escaped in a waiting motor car. He has been admitted ...

A Chief Prison Officer at the Georgetown Prison was Saturday night arrested for allegedly being in possession of a large quantity of marijuana and other items, according to well-placed sources. He has been identified as Marvin Azore of Onion Field, La Bonne Intention (LBI), East Coast Demerara. Police and prison sources confirmed that a search was conducted on Azore’s personal ...

A businessman of Henrietta Village,  Essequibo Coast was shot and injured during an armed robbery at his shop, police said. Nursing a gunshot injury to his left foot is 47-year old Mark Warner. He has been admitted to the Suddie Hospital. Investigators were told that at about 11 PM on Saturday, August 1, 2015 he was held at gunpoint by ...

Three men have been arrested, along with two guns and a large quantity of cash, following a GUY$1 million robbery committed on a businessman, police said. Investigators were told that at about 1PM Saturday, August 1, 2015, 43-year old Naresh Pooran of Enmore, East Coast Demerara was robbed of the cash and his licensed pistol at Coomacka, Linden. “Subsequently, police ...

Venezuela is formally demanding that Guyana immediately corrects an aspect of its maritime boundary related to the Essequibo River. “The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has sent today, through the Ministry of Popular Power for Foreign Affairs, a note of protest to the Guyanese government demanding immediate correction of that Point 1,” according to an unofficial translation of a statement. That ...

by Zena Henry Former Attorney General Anil Nandlall feels vindicated of his connection to Rajput Narine, his former body guard who was arrested as a part of a probe into the killing of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing. Crum-Ewing had made it his personal quest to speak out and demonstrate against the former AG who made statements against the Kaieteur Newspaper, ...

The Guyana government wants to ‘wire’ civilians to go after bad cops, while at the same time widen video surveillance of most of Georgetown to capture criminals, Public Security Minister, Khemraj Ramjattan announced on Saturday. Grappling with poor confidence in the Guyana Police Force at a time when there is a spike in crime in the capital city, Ramjattan told ...

Guyana hopes to sell more rice to other non-traditional markets as the South American country desperately searches for new markets to make up for the looming loss of the lucrative Venezuelan market. Second Vice President, Khemraj Ramjattan made the disclosure during an interview on New York’s WEERadio on Saturday, saying that selling to grain Portugal, Panama and Haiti was aimed ...

Reproduced from Trinidad Express TRINIDAD and Tobago and Guyana have agreed to a Joint Commission to initiate and oversee collaboration in construction, education, business and other areas where it would be mutually beneficial to deepen ties. The Office of the Prime Minister, in a release yesterday on the visit to T&T by Guyana President Brig David A Granger on Thursday ...