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The Ministry of Education on Saturday regrettably informed that there will be no transfers for students whose parents wish for them to move to a school which require higher marks than was earned by the student at the 2014 National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA). All placements of students were made based on the performance of the students and the capacity ...

Former Guyana and West Indies cricketer, Ivor Mendonca died on Saturday after a battle with cancer. He was 79. Compton Mendonca confirmed that his brother died Saturday morning at the Davis Memorial Hospital, D’urban Backlands, Georgetown. Secretary of the Guyana Cricket Board, Anand Sanasie paid tribute to the former wicketkeeper and right hand batsman who passed away as a result ...

Police were Saturday probing the circumstances that led to the shooting of a deportee in War Lock, East Ruimveldt late Friday night, a senior police officer said. Sources said 19-year Kellon Hinds of 465 East La Penitence was shot to his left side abdomen. A high-ranking police officer said that “on the surface” investigators do not believe Hinds’ claim that ...

A market vendor, who was involved in that Corentyne hit-and-run rampage earlier this week, was Friday arraigned for killing three pedestrians and drunken driving. Nakash Persaud, 18, of 121 Number 51 Village, Corentyne was charged with three counts of causing death by dangerous driving and seven other offences. He was not required to plea to the indictable charges and he ...

The body of 17-year-old taxi driver Dhanraj Latchman has been found in a canefield at Ruby Backdam in the Parika area. Police Commissioner, Seelall Persaud told Demerara Waves Online News that the youth’s body was found some two miles from where his vehicle was discovered on Thursday. Someone, who visited the scene, said the body was swollen, a sign that ...

The University of Guyana (UG) on Friday indicated that it is making moves that might see tuition fees increased from the new school year starting in September. Talks on increasing the fees have been in the pipeline for some time now and Vice Chancellor Jacob Opadeyi had told Demerara Waves Online News last September that it was a government decision. ...

The man who allegedly murdered his wife by strangling and suffocating her in a bucket of water at their Friendship , East Bank Demerara home, was arrainged Friday afternoon. Appearing before Chief Magistrate, Priya Sewnarine-Beharry to answer the indictable charge was Vindra Siriram. He is accused of murdering his common-law wife, Shellyann Persaud, between June 9 and 10. Siriram, who ...

At about 0200h. today Friday June 13, 2014, a man known so far as “Terrence” was found on the Timehri Public Road, EBD, with a suspected gunshot wound to his chest. He has been admitted to the GPHC for medical treatment. A man has been arrested and is in police custody assisting with the investigations.

Investigations are being conducted into a fatal accident that occurred at about 1500h. yesterday Thursday June 12, 2014, at Freeman Street, East La Penitence, Georgetown, and which resulted in the death of Joseph Parris, 6 years, of Freeman Street. Investigations so far have revealed that the driver of motor car PPP 5931 was allegedly driving along the roadway at a ...

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR, David Granger on Friday vowed that his party would not give a “blanket apology” for excesses during its almost 30-year unbroken rule of Guyana. “I am not going to give any blanket apology when nobody has given any indication as to what is to be investigated,” he said. Instead, he first prefers ...