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(MOROCCO WORLD NEWS).-Morocco Customs has seized 2.4 kg cocaine and arrested a Guyanese national at the Casablanca Mohammed V airport in that North African country on Saturday, an official told Customs Today. The illegal substance was hidden inside the luggage of the Guyanese drug trafficker who was traveling from Sao Paulo to Cotonou (Benin), said the airport’s judiciary police Chief ...

After a more than six hour search for a missing plane, with two persons aboard, a search and rescue mission came up empty-handed and called off their operation at sunset Sunday until day-break Monday, the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) said in a statement. The GCAA said the Britten Norman Islander, bearing registration number 8R-GHE, went missing while on a ...

Guyanese authorities Sunday afternoon established its Rescue Coordination Centre (RCC) to search for an Air Services Limited (ASL) plane that went missing over Mahdia while shuttline fuel and other supplies to Karisparu, another gold-mining area, officials said. Transport Minister, Robeson Benn confirmed that an Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) signal was picked up by another aircraft that was travelling the Ogle-Lethem ...

Aviation personnel were Sunday afternoon searching for a Britten Norman Islander airplane after they lost communication with the pilot about 1 PM (Guyana Time), officials said. Aboard were the plane, bearing registration number 8R-GHE, were Captain Nickey Persaud and cargo loader, David Bisnauth. The plane was shuttling from the gold mining area of Mahdia to Karisparu when communication with the pilot ...

A gang of bandits believed to be responsible for a number of home invasions in East Berbice might have been dealt a severe blow with Saturday’s arrest of several persons in the traditional stronghold of Guyana’s governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP). Police said in a statement that three men were arrested at Port Mourant and two improvised shotguns, a one ...

Several persons, including a number of young children, were rendered homeless Saturday afternoon when fire ravaged the old wooden cottage that they occupied in Alberttown, Georgetown was destroyed by fire. Fire fighters were able to contain the hungry flames to that building and so prevented it from spreading to nearby buildings on Sixth Street and Church Street. The cottage was ...

A mechanic at the seafood company, Pritipaul Singh Investments (PSI) is among several persons reported killed in road accidents and altercations so far for the Christmas Season. One man was shot and injured by unidentified persons and two others were stabbed to death, police added. Investigators said that Richard Giddings, 24, of Diamond, East Bank Demerara, lost control of a ...

The Tuschen cane cutter, who hacked to death his former mother-in-law,  young child and his ex-wife’s new boyfriend, was caught Friday- Boxing Day- morning in the back dam of his village, police said. The capture of Jerome Franklin aboout 8 AM by police came eight days after he committed the gruesome crime on December 18 at Tuschen Housing Scheme, East ...

Several nurses at Guyana’s state-run Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) on Wednesday- Christmas Eve Day- embarked on industrial action to press demands for an increase in take-home pay, according to multiple sources. The impact of the go-slow was not immediately known, though one source said that the Female Medical Ward was among the areas affected. Efforts to contact a senior ...

The Caribbean is not reaping any benefits from the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union, six years after it was signed. Guyana’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett  says that’s because Caribbean producers are facing several constraints including the high cost of energy, poor infrastructure. She says a European Union review of the EPA and a study by the ...