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A 24-year old man was arrested after exchanging gunfire with policemen who saw him allegedly pull a gun on a woman as she was leaving her Sophia home. After the shooting, the man- Keron Cummings- jumped into a canal near the Sophia Health Centre where he was taken out and handcuffed. The gun was later found in the canal near ...

An office assistant at a service station was Friday fined GUY$3,000 and ordered to perform community service after he pleaded guilty to being in possession of marijuana. Quincy Spellen of Freeman Street, East La Penitence, Georgetown told Chief Magistrate, Priya Sewnarine-Beharry that he had four grammes of marijuana in his possession on March 12 for medicinal purposes. He explained that ...

By Ernesto Londoño (WASHINGTON POST).-Dwindling defense budgets have been a boon to drug trafficking networks in Latin America as U.S. intelligence and interdiction assets in the Caribbean have been pared down, the top American commander responsible for the region said Thursday. “Because of asset shortfalls, we’re unable to get after 74 percent of suspected maritime drug smuggling,” Marine Gen. John ...

Reeling from a barrage of criticisms by the government and ruling Peoples Progressive Party (PPP), the two parliamentary parties have denied calling for closure of the sugar industry. The issue emerged earlier this week when A Partnership for National Unity’s (APNU), Tony Vieria recommended the significant scaling back of sugar production and turning to aquaculture and ethanol production. Vieria had ...

Police were Thursday night checking their database to ascertain who might be then owner of a handgun that was found on the East Bank Demerara Public Road. A traffic policeman found the .32 Taurus Pistol and 12 matching rounds on the Bagotstown Public Road in the vicinity of Gossai’s Liquor Store about 5:30 PM Thursday. Police sources said the serial ...

Government has presented a fine-tuned Barbados model Anti Money Laundering and Countering of Financing Terrorism legislation that seeks to improve the governance mechanism, Junior Finance Minister Juan Edghill said Thursday. “In fact, the Government’s counter-proposals of amendments recently placed before the Special Select Committee is a modified version of the Barbadian model, deliberately crafted to take into account the possible ...

Newly-appointed Chief Elections Officer and Commissioner of National Registration, Keith Lowenfield on Thursday pledged to strive for consensus in carrying out his mandate. Lowenfield, a trained specialist in Public Administration, was unanimously selected from among three candidates. The others were Jamaican Danville Davidson and United States-based Guyanese Savitrie Singh. “I am a strong supporter of the consensus procedure, which is ...

A former Special Constable was Thursday arraigned on charges of forging Chief Justice, Ian Chang’s signature and obtaining money by false pretence for a land case to be dismissed. City Magistrate, Ann Mc Lennan granted 58-year old Ann Small of 228 South Sophia GUY$300,000 bail for the offences she allegedly committed between November 1, 02-01 and February 28, 2013 at ...

Auditor General, Deodat Sharma on Thursday confirmed that a probe has begun into the Town Clerk, Carol Sooba’s alleged misuse of GUY$500,000 to pay a city lawyer in connection with a High Court matter in which she is not a party. Sharma declined to discuss in detail the status of the probe but he said a number of persons have ...

The Private Sector Commission’s (PSC) proposal that Guyana should adopt the Barbados model for establishing an oversight board to monitor the anti-money laundering and terrorist financing architecture has been struck down by President Donald Ramotar. PSC Chairman, Ronald Webster told a government-organised National Consultation on the status of amendments to the Anti Money Laundering and Countering Financing Terrorism Act that ...