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The number of confirmed cases of the mosquito-borne disease, Chikungunya, continues to soar in Berbice, largely due to more persons coming forward to be tested as a result of an aggressive public awareness campaign there, usually reliable sources said Monday night. Health Minister, Dr. Bheri Ramsarran declined to speak, when contacted by telephone. Calls to Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Shamdeo ...

At about 1330h. today Monday June 02, 2014, Paul Gonsalves, 21 years, of Pomeroon, Essequibo was in a motor vehicle travelling along the Public Road at Greenwich, WCD, when the driver lost control of the vehicle and collided with a utility pole. Paul Gonsalves received injuries and was pronounced dead on arrival at the Leonora Cottage Hospital. Another passenger, Gillian ...

Former senior member of the House of Israel, Joseph Hamilton – now a parliamentarian for the governing Peoples Progressive Party Civic (PPPC)- on Monday admitted that he and other members of that African Guyanese cult had broken up a number of Working Peoples Alliance (WPA) meetings. He began his testimony at the Commission of Inquiry into the death of Guyanese ...

The woman, who allegedly fled with a nine-day old baby boy from his mother, was Monday charged with child stealing. Baitoon “Debbie” Hoosain of Chesney Village Front, Corentyne pleaded not guilty to the charge when it was read to her Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh at the Whim Magistrates Court. The 47-year old woman was remanded to prison until June 14 for ...

A security guard was shot and injured Sunday night by two men who robbed him of his cellular phone valued GUY$3,000, relatives said. Relatives said 24-year old Terrence Phillips of Aubrey Barker Road, South Ruimveldt, and Sophia sustained gunshot injuries to his abdomen. He is an employee of Pritipaul Singh Investments (PSI), Meadow Bank, East Bank Demerara. His relatives, who ...

A contractor and his wife, who were riding home after visiting her overseas-based grandmother, encountered a close shave with death when a car slammed into the couple on the Atlantic Ville Public Road and sped away from the scene early Sunday night. Those injured are 29-year old Sharmila Baksh and 52-year old Nizam Ishak of Section K Campelville. “We were ...

The Guyana government on Sunday expressed deep concern at the decision by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to relocate the 3rd Test Match with New Zealand and denied the governing body’s assertion that the recently passed Cricket Administration Bill would result in governmental interference in the management of the game. The government also accused the WICB of seeking to ...

The woman, who abducted the baby boy from his mother eight days ago, had allegedly faked a pregnancy and turned up to her common-law husband with the newborn, Demerara Waves has learnt. The less than one month old child was rescued Sunday about 9 AM by police who swooped down on a house at Chesney Village Front, Corentyne. Investigators have ...

The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Sunday castigated government for Guyana being blacklisted by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). The Antigua-based WICB has announced that the New Zealand Test match would be moved from Guyana because the recently passed Cricket Administration Bill essentially allows for governmental interference in the running of the game. While the AFC had noted voted ...

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board on Saturday announced that it has pulled the New Zealand test match from Guyana after the board and the Donald Ramotar administration failed to reach agreement on the independent governance of cricket in the country. “As a consequence the WICB is left with no option but to relocate the Third Test ...