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A pork knocker who allegedly decided to burglarize a miner’s store at Mahdia and a steal more than quarter million dollars’ worth of jewellery was Wednesday remanded to prison. The case against 25 year old Peter Giddings of Kwakwani Park was transferred to Mahdia Court for July 14. City Magistrate, Ann Mc Lennan refused Giddings bail after the prosecutor, Dinero ...

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&) on Wednesday announced that it will be plugging GUY$60 million into the cash-strapped University of Guyana To help that institution in Information Communications Technology (ICT) and other areas. “As we at GT & T reviewed  our contribution to the various sectors of our social  economy, we felt that support to this premier educational ...

Guyana’s combined political opposition on Wednesday condemned government’s decision to revoke the work permit of the head of the United States- funded Leadership and Democracy (LEAD) project and warned that the Americans could soon react sharply. Reacting to government’s decision to scrap the work permit issued to Chief of Party of the LEAD Project, Glenn Bradbury, Opposition Leader, David Granger ...

The Guyana government on Wednesday announced that the work permit Head of the United States (US)-funded Leadership and Democracy (LEAD) project, Glenn Bradbury has been revoked amid ongoing objections to the project. “It is a fact that the revocation has taken place but it is equally a fact that Mr, Bradbury,  a Canadian citizen has had a reputation brought to ...

Attorney-at-Law, Basil Williams Wednesday morning told Commissioners probing the bomb-blast death of Guyanese politician Dr Walter Rodney that the public hearings were accepting too much hearsay but they disagreed that Guyanese laws were being suspended to allow a free-for-all. “The Commission has suspended Guyanese laws and so there is no filtering here. People can come in and say all kinds ...

An inmate of the New Amsterdam prison was up to late Tuesday afternoon in a critical condition after he was stabbed by another inmate there. He is Brian Hescott of Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara. Sources said his left lung was damaged after he was stabbed with two ‘jookas’ (sharpened ice picks). Hescott was rushed to the New Amsterdam Hospital ...

A suspected bandit was arrested moments after he and another man had allegedly robbed a man who was walking at Festival City, South Ruimveldt, police said. “Ranks of a police patrol in the area responded to the sound of the gunshots and arrested the man who had the firearm. His accomplice managed to escape with a gold chain from the ...

A suspected rapist was shot and killed a man after he attacked a policeman who was trying to arrest him, investigators said. He has been identified as Joel Ross. The incident occurred about 12:30 PM Tuesday at Kuru Kuru, Soesdyke-Linden Highway. “This caused the rank to resort to the use of force and Joel Ross was shot to his body. ...

A former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) electronics expert, who had given Guyanese political activist Dr. Walter Rodney a bomb-in-walkie-talkie, might have been also a member of then feared House of Israel, a cult that had beaten opponents and broken up opposition political meetings in the 1970s and 80s. Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) member, Eddie Rodney, who is one of Walter’s ...

An America Street gold dealer and a wash bay attendant were Tuesday arraigned for the alleged murder of Patsan Trading sales representative, Bharrat Ramcharran in the course of committing a robbery. They are Randolph Marques,20, and Kevin France,26, of 708 East Ruimveldt, Georgetown. Marques and his father trade in gold. Appearing before Chief Magistrate, Priya Sewnarine-Beharry; they were not allowed ...