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A 20-year old Barabina, North West District man met an untimely death Friday afternoon after he fell off of a tractor tray which was climbing a hill with a load of sand. According to reports, around 3:30 pm, porter Devon Valenzuela was seated at the back of the tray of the vehicle when he fell off and hit his head. ...

A gold miner from Victoria, East Coast Demerara was chopped to death in Mahdia where he had been residing for the past 15 years, officials said. Investigators are treating the death of 57-year old Charles Major as a robbery murder. Police said his body was found about 6 AM Friday along a trail at Dickman Hill, Mahdia with several lacerations.  ...

While thousands of Guyanese across Guyana were Friday morning preparing to celebrate Phagwah, three persons were seriously injured in an accident on the East Coast Demerara when the car they were travelling in slammed into a bridge. Officials identified the injured as Trevon Harper, 28, of 109 Friendship, East Bank Demerara; Quacy Elcock,34, of 480 East Ruimveldt and Krayon Braithwhaite, ...

An Accountant and a Teacher were seriously injured Thursday night when the bus they were travelling in collided on the East Coast Public Road, according to well placed sources. The injured are Accountant, 42-year old Gwyneth Webb of 11 Belfield, East Coast Demerara and Teacher, 57 year old Angela London of 84 Haslington, East Coast Demerara. Webb sustained injuries to ...

The Manager of the Guyana Sugar Corporation’s (Guysuco) Skeldon Estate, Dave Kumar was Thursday arraigned on charges of riotous behaviour and assaulting a peace officer with intent to resist arrest. Kumar, who was last year at the centre of the dismissal of an employee that led to a strike,  was released on his own recognizance. Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh ordered him to ...

Lawyers for a woman and her lover, who were convicted for the murder of her 16-year old daughter and dumping her body in a creek, plan to appeal the life sentences handed down by the High Court on Thursday. Attorney-at-Law, George Thomas said he would file the appeal as early as Monday on behalf of Bibi Shareema Gopaul and Jarvis ...

Guyanese youths appear to be more interested in politics than older folks and the East Indian and other Guyanese are satisfied with aspects of the way the country is being run , according to a recent study conducted by the Latin American  Public Opinion Project (LAPOP). LAPOP Director at Vanderbilt University, Dr. Elizabeth Zechmeister told a small but broad cross ...

A High Court jury found a mother and her  former lover guilty of the murder of her 16-year old daughter, Neesa Gopaul, almost five years ago. Bibi Shareema Gopaul was sentenced to 106 years and Barry Small was sentenced to 96 years by Justice Navindra Singh.  The decomposed body of Gopaul, a student of Queen’s College, was found in a ...

A vegetable vendor was Wednesday night shot and robbed at his home at Supply, Mahaica, and two of  the four suspected bandits were caught at Unity Village, police and residents said. His only name given is “Pappy”.  He was shot to his left foot by one of the bandits. Pappy, said to be a well-known vendor at Bourda and Stabroek ...

A former Office Assistant at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, who was previously convicted for cocaine smuggling, was Wednesday afternoon caught again with two kilogrammes of cocaine that he was hoping to take to Barbados, according to well-placed sources. He is 32-year old Terry De Freitas who late last year won GUY$1 million from the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) ...