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Three men have been arrested in connection with a spate of robberies in East Berbice during Thursday night, police said. Following is the full text of a statement issued by the Guyana Police Force. At about 2030h. last night Thursday April 02, 2015, three men, one of whom was armed with a firearm and the others with cutlasses, entered the ...

A 58-year-old businessman was on Friday, April 2 refused bail at the Georgetown Magistrates Court on a drug trafficking charge. Colin Clyde Prescott of Linden, pleaded not guilty to the charge, when it was read to him by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.  Particulars of which said on March 30 at Silver Hill, Linden Soesdyke Highway, he was busted with 178 ...

A Jamaican man, who attempted to smuggle more than one kilogramme of cocaine in lotion, was Thursday jailed for five years and fined GUY$3.4 million. Richard Daniels, 20, wad found guilty for being possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking. He was busted with 1.236 kilograms of cocaine concealed in two bottles of lotion and two and a half ...

The incumbent People’s Progressive Party Civic’s (PPPC) Prime Ministerial candidate, Ambassador Elisabeth Harper on Thursday brushed off suggestions that she was campaigning alongside Former President, Bharrat Jagdeo against whom domestic violence accusations have been leveled. “I am not interested in commenting. I don’t have time to comment on those criticisms. I have bigger issues to deal with which is to ...

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) in February  commenced the country wide roll-out of upgraded internet speeds delivering new plans with speeds up to 10Mbps, the fastest ever in Guyana, the company said in a statement. As promised by CEO RK Sharma at a media dinner back in January, GT&T is delivering faster internet speeds throughout Guyana, which started with ...

Even as the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) increased its Internet speed in several areas of the country, the telecommunications provider on Wednesday appeared increasingly impatient with being unable to offer higher data speeds on mobile devices. “We are a company that is a regulated company and obviously this can’t be an indefinite wait but we are hoping the ...

GEORGETOWN – Kaieteur News admitted this morning that an article titled “US revokes four Gov’t officials’ visas” that was published today was purely a work of fiction. To be clear, the US Embassy has not cancelled any visas of high-ranking Government officials nor is the US Federal Bureau of Investigation in country questioning individuals as the article states. Kaieteur News ...

Police were Wednesday morning probing the theft of a gun, ammunition and GUY$90 million that was being taken to the Bourda Branch of the Guyana Post Office (GPO). Investigators were told that the incident occured about 8:15 AM when three men armed with firearms held up a police escort and the driver of a General Post Office motor vehicle, who were ...

The body of the woman, whose head and limbs were chopped off and found on the Buxton foreshore, has been identified, according to sources. Her name has been given as Samantha Benjamin. The 40-year old woman lived in Buxton. Crime sleuths have so far found out from Benjamin’s ex-husband, with whom she was having a relationship, that she moved out ...

A Brazilian Pastor is among three persons charged with the possession of a large quantity of marijuana while they were leaving the southern Guyanese township of Lethem for neighbouring Brazil. Chief Magistrate, Priya Sewnarine-Beharry refused them bail and ordered that they be remanded until June 1 when they would appear in the Lethem Magistrates’ Court. They were refused bail after ...