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Moments before a man was about to appear before a city magistrate for alleged domestic violence, he attempted to commit suicide by drinking poisonous agro-chemicals and collapsed just before entering he courtroom. Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) sources said 33-year old Shannon Hooper was still in a critical but conscious condition. Medical personnel believed that he consumed a combination of ...

The prisoner, who escaped from the Providence Police Station lock-up Sunday night, was Tuesday jailed for 12 months. He is 29-year old Lennox Cort of 60 Hadfield Street, Georgetown. He pleaded guilty to committing the offence of escaping from lawful custody. Cort was at the time being held in connection with his alleged assault of his girlfriend. Police said he  ...

Founding member of the Working Peoples Alliance (WPA), Eusi Kwayna on Tuesday rejected suggestions that that party had planned to unleash bloody violence to remove the then Forbes Burnham administration from office. Testifying at the Commission of Inquiry into the bomb-in-walkie-talkie death of Dr. Walter Rodney on June 13,1980, Kwayana was explaining the late politician’s utterance that “the PNC must ...

Eddie Rodney on Tuesday denied that he was the military adviser to his brother- late Guyanese historian Dr. Walter Rodney-in the operation of explosive devices disguised as walkie-talkies. Dr.Rodney was killed in a bomb-blast death while seated in his brother’s car on June 13, 1980 a short distance from the Georgetown Prison.  Another brother, Donald, was with him at the ...

The tight power supply schedule to Mahdia and other surrounding communities in Region Eight is expected to improve as the new generator purchased by Government to address the problem is now installed and will become operational very soon. Regional Executive Officer (REO) Ronald Harsawack informed residents over the weekend that the new generating set that was procured at a cost GUY$85M has been installed, and will be tested over the next few days, before ...

A man, who was arrested in connection with an alleged assault, escaped from the Providence Police Station lock-up  Sunday night and he was later recaptured, police sources confirmed. Police said the prisoner escaped through a grill in the cell. He was later recaptured in the nearby Greenfield Park. He is expected to be charged with escaping from lawful custody. This ...

A Guyanese man is among five persons seriously injured in an accident in neighbouring Suriname, the Surinamese online newspaper,Starnieuws, reported. The names of the injured were not immediately known but the other occupants were four women. The three seriously injured women were taken to the Lachmipersad Mungra Regional Hospital in Nickerie. Police said the accident happened a short distance from ...

Representatives from almost every borrowing member country of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) will be participating in a stakeholders’ forum to come up with better working strategies, over the next three days. The event started today at the Ramada, Princess Hotel, East Bank Demerara. In an overview of what the event will entail, Kenneth Harvey, CTCS Network Coordinator,  said over ...

A three-lane system is being introduced from the Demerara Harbour Bridge to Houston beginning Tuesday, “in an effort to ease the traffic build-up during peak hours,” police said. The Guyana Police Force explained that the three-lane system will be from 7 AM to 9 AM and 5PM to 7 PM Monday to Friday. The police force asked ,motorists to  cooperate ...

A fisherman was early Independence Day- Monday- struck down and killed by a hit-and-run motor vehicle. He has been identified as 31-year old Fizul Houssin of Success, East Coast Demerara and 401 Foulis, East Coast Demerara. He was a driver. The dead man’s friend Kamaldin Hussain told Demerara Waves that he and Fizul had gone to fish as a hobby ...