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by Zena Henry A full report into the January 2014 plane crash which claimed the lives of Canadian Pilot Captain Blake Slater and Guyanese cargo handler Dwayne Jacobs has pointed to engine failure as the most likely cause of the accident. Former Public Works Ministry made the disclosure earlier in the year but did not release details. According to the ...

University of Guyana (UG) law graduates are now faced with a 32.29 percent hike in tuition fees to pursue their Legal Education Certificate (LEC) studies at the Trinidad-based Hugh Wooding Law School (HWLS) In real terms students from Guyana have to find an additional GUY$1.6 million, based on an exchange rate of $1.00 Trinidad and Tobago (TT) dollar = GUY$32.00 ...

Fire of unknown origin Tuesday night destroyed the preparatory area of a Science Laboratory at St. Rose’s High School, Church Street, Georgetown. Police cordoned off the area to allow fire scene investigators to comb the debris. Chief Education Officer, Olato Sam and members of the school board visited the scene on the lower flat of the back building. The security ...

Police Tuesday night disclosed the identities of two men-one shot dead and the other injured- who were captured during an operation at Craig, East Bank Demerara that netted several suspects in two recent murders and then brutal assault of a judge and her husband. The suspect who was fatally shot during the police operation has been identified as Rolston Morrison ...

A Guyana Defence Force Lieutenant (GDF) was Tuesday sentenced to 36 months imprisonment after he was convicted for causing death by dangerous driving almost three years ago. Lt. Anthony Eastman was found guilty of the offence that he committed on November 1, 2013 at Mandela Avenue, Georgetown. City Magistrate Judy Latchman refused a bail application by the convict’s lawyer, Leslie ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (CMC) – The United States Coast Guard says it has detained two Guyanese and three Jamaican smugglers and seized 215 pounds of cocaine aboard a Guyanese fishing vessel in the Caribbean Sea. The Coast Guard said Monday that the interdiction, on July 2, was the result of a multi-agency law enforcement effort in support of Operation ...

by Zena Henry Just as the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is preparing to make its way to Parliament, the Coalition for the 1823 monument has condemned former President Bharrat Jagdeo as Opposition Leader and at least three other PPP members who have been named as parliamentarians. The organization, which protested outside Freedom House Tuesday July 13 is adamant that Jagdeo ...

Police early Tuesday morning killed a suspect and arrested eight others in the murder of a city businessman and the battery of a judge and her husband. The raid took place at about 2 AM at  Craig, East Bank Demerara. Crime sleuths  believe that the suspects are linked to the gunning down of the owner of Multiplex Mall, Ganesh “Boyo” ...

The refusal by the University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill campus, to accept a proposal by the Law Department of the University of Guyana (UG) for greater control over its programme is stalling a 2015 agreement for the automatic entry of UG’s top 25 law graduates into the Hugh Wooding Law School (HWLS). This is according to Head ...

Authorities will soon begin a “clean sweep” of Guyana’s interior in search of illegal shops that are havens for various criminals and illegal activities including weapons and gun possession, according to Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan. “We would like to notify all illegal shops first as to their illegal activities before we are going to do a number of ...