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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 ...

The United States (US) embassy in Guyana says the rules and conditions for issuing non-immigrant visas have nothing to do with the situation in any country around the world but by American laws hinged on ties to an applicant’s home country. “The Embassy does not issue non-immigrant visas based on a quota system, nor does any Embassy or Consulate change ...

Guyanese anti-drug agents have discovered a quantity of cocaine stashed in a wood charcoal that was bound for the United States (US), a senior official said. “During the examination, Officers observed four strange objects in one of the bags which did not confirm with the description of the charcoals that were declared for export. As the objects were probed, a white powdery ...

Opposition coalition Prime Ministerial candidate, Moses Nagamootoo is not daunted by the failure to attract a large number of Indo-Guyanese at its rally in his home-village of Whim, Corentyne earlier this week. Among the estimated 5,000 mostly Afro-Guyanese attendees were very few Indian Guyanese, a feature that Alliance For Change (AFC) Leader, Khemraj Ramjattan is challenging. “There were massive amounts ...

Bharrat Jagdeo is still the President of Guyana and Donald Ramotar is merely a politician but they both live at State House, if we are to go by the latest version of Guyana’s voters list. The Revised List of Electors (2015) published on the Guyana Elections Commission’s website also states that Ooma Jagdeo is listed as a resident of State ...

Two bogus cops- arrested at house allegedly with drugs, a gun and ammunition- were Monday charged with several robbery offences. One of them, who is a former soldier, had escaped from police custody while under guard and receiving treatment at the Georgetown Hospital for a gunshot wound he sustained during a recent robbery at PopEye’s, Vlissengen Road, Georgetown. They were ...

Three persons were killed and several others injured early Monday morning when the vehicle they were in was involved in an accident on the West Coast Berbice, police sources said. They are 22-years old Tommy Thomas of John Street, New Amsterdam and 19-year old Jevon Gregory of Stanleytown, New Amsterdam. One of the dead persons has not yet been identified. ...

Former president Bharat Jagdeo told a rally in Kitty on Sunday that the opposition parties, if elected into power, will create adverse conditions which will force Guyanese to apply for visas in increasing numbers, thereby forcing the United States (U.S.) Embassy in Guyana to clamp down on visa distribution here. Sunday’s rally marks the official commencement of the party’s election ...