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(JAMAICA OBSERVER).-A number of flight delays have rocked Fly Jamaica Airways Limited over the past month, leaving passengers angry at the inconvenience. Yesterday, news emerged that a flight to New York from Georgetown, Guyana, scheduled to leave last Friday, was delayed for two days. Before that, on July 10, the Kingston to New York flight was cancelled, an irate passenger ...

Two females were seriously injured early Friday morning when the car in which they were travelling ran off the Ogle Public Road, crashed into a utility pole and flipped over. Their names were not immediately available. Public spirited citizens used tools to remove the persons from the wreck. One of the women sustained severe head injuries and the other a ...

In the wake of the discovery of the body of one the fishermen after what is believed to have been piracy, Guyanese police hope their Surinamese counterparts will deport the captain for him to be grilled by crime sleuths. Head of the Criminal Investigations Department, Senior Superintendent Leslie James said his investigators would like to question boat captain, Feroze Hack. ...

The Guyana Police Force is currently investigating an armed attack on four officers of the Guyana Revenue Authority’s  (GRA) Law Enforcement and Investigation Division (LIED) at around 23:25hrs Wednesday night in the vicinity of Dundee, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara, the tax agency said in a statement. The GRA said the officers, who were conducting a surveillance exercise based on intelligence ...

Colwyn Harding, who has sued the State for more than GUY$80 million for alleged torture and other constitutional infringements, on Thursday appeared in court on a charge of robbery with violence. He pleaded not guilty to the offence he allegedly committed on Cheryl-Ann Hope on July 9, 2014. Harding was granted GUY$75,000 bail by Chief Magistrate, Priya Sewnarine-Beharry and ordered ...

Rice farmers on the Essequibo Coast on Wednesday began receiving outstanding payments for paddy from Golden Fleece Rice Investment, even as government hoped that commercial banks would provide advances to the millers. Demerara Waves Online News was told that GUY$250 million were provided last week and GUY$150 million were disbursed on Tuesday to facilitate the payments. Asked whether government was ...

Two persons were killed Wednesday evening when a minibus ran off the Soesdyke-Linden Highway. Dead are the driver, 29-year old Roger Hutson of Retrieve Linden and 36-year old Kathleen Marks who was a mother of four children.  Linden Hospital sources said two of the 13 injured persons were transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation for advanced medical treatment. The ...

A contingent of 42 Guyanese scouts is due to participate in the 15th Caribbean Scout Jamboree to be held later this month in Curacao, according to Assistant District Commissioner Theon Hope. The nine leaders and 33 Explorer and Venture Scouts are due to depart Guyana on Sunday, July 20, 2014. The next day, they will begin participating in the July ...

A gold miner of Nappie, Lethem was Wednesday refused bail on a charge of being in possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking. Godfrey Jonas, 55, told Chief Magistrate, Priya Sewnarine-Beharry that he was innocent of the charge after it was read to him. The unrepresented Jonas was remanded to prison until September 1 when he would appear in ...

In the wake of a public outcry, the Home Affairs Ministry on Wednesday backed down from its original demand and said applicants for new passports must now furnish birth certificates that have been obtained no more than two years before. Originally, the Ministry had ordered that the birth certificates must be no more than six months. But sections of the ...