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Training of members of the Special Weapons and Tactics Unit (SWAT) team by a United States (US) company is expected to begin later this month, Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee announced on Friday. The Home Affairs Minister said an organisational needs assessment for the unit has been completed while actual training would begin in mid-January. Rohee said the unit would ...

An international operation has resulted in the interception of a Guyanese trawler with a large quantity of marijuana and the arrest of six Guyanese and one Surinamese, well-placed sources said Friday. The trawler, Kaminey, was arrested in international waters through cooperation among United States, British and Guyanese agencies last weekend. The identities of the men are unlikely to be released ...

Four persons were early Friday morning shot in Albouystown, Georgetown, according to well-placed sources. They are 29-year old Courtney Sandy, 20-year old Nikita Glasgow, Randy Bharrat and an unidentified female. Sandy was shot to the shin bone, Glasgow to one of her feet and Bharrat to his left side and lower back. Bharrat and the unidentified female were taken to ...

The Home Affairs Ministry on Thursday feared that firearms and ammunition are being smuggled inside the Georgetown Prison as part of a plot being hatched to cause mayhem. Rohee vowed that every effort would be made to disrupt those plans by searching for firearms at any prison. “Nefarious plans and conspiracies hatched in or out of prisons to disrupt the ...

A 16-year old boy is feared drowned after he disappeared from the Kitty Jetty shortly before 6 PM Thursday, his mother said. He has been identified as Jerome Sturge of 32 East Ruimveldt Front Road, Squatting Area, Margaret Persaud told Demerara Waves Online News (www.demwaves.com). Sturge’s mother said she first learnt of her son’s disappearance from the jetty when a ...

Newly appointed Chairman of Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL, Komal Samaroo on Monday said the company would revive a campaign against selling rum to underage persons and would be willing to contribute to the rehabilitation of alcoholics. “Some parts of the country we ran into a particular challenge in getting retailers to subscribe to that programme and one of the things ...

The man, who allegedly shot dead his ex girlfriend on Old Year’s Night, was caught early Thursday morning moments before he was about to flee to Suriname, police said. Deputy Police Commissioner, Seelall Persaud said the man was arrested at the Springlands back track, Corentyne River. He has been identified as Jermaine Maynard of Leopold and Cross Streets, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown. ...

Guyana Tuesday night- Old Year’s Night- recorded what might have been its last reported homicide when a man shot his female companion in her head, police said. She is 20 year old Carlissa Matthews of North Ruimveldt, Georgetown. The incident occurred near KFC, Water Street, Stabroek about 11:45 PM. Investigators were told that Matthews. a former student of North Ruimveldt ...

A Linden businesswoman is entering the New Year without her only means of livelihood because a squib resulted in her small shop being burnt down. May Anthony says remnants of a squib among the charred remains of her shop at the Mackenzie Bus park proves the cause of the fire. She recalled being at church when she received information that ...

The hydropower station licence granted to the United States-based Sithe Global, expired Tuesday with little chance of it being renewed even as government searches for a new investor. Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Roger Luncheon said that while government remained committed to the AFH project the licence was not renewed because no negotiations were held with the company. “The licence will expire. ...