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Georgetown, Guyana – U.S. Ambassador D. Brent Hardt introduced the American alternative rock band, Filligar at the launch of their eight day visit to Guyana.  This program is part of the Embassy’s continuing cultural engagement that has brought jazz musicians, dance groups, a classical pianist, and a flautist to Guyana over the past three years.  Earlier in the day, the ...

One of two owners of  business places on Station Street, Kitty  on Thursday pleaded guilty to selling spirituous drinks without a licence and he would be sentenced on Friday. The seizures of the alcoholic beverages were made on Wednesday. Thirty-one year old Savita Sattaur, who is the owner of Liquid Love Bar, was placed on her own recognisance after she ...

A man under whose car was found a grenade four years ago is now wanted in connection with cocaine found at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport earlier this month. The Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) identified the man as Tarachandra Persaud also known as Doce and Dos of Republic Park, East Bank Demerara. The agency hopes that the man would ...

A security guard, who is a key witness in a murder trial, was fatally shot to his head at the Cane Field Nursery School, East Canje, Berbice. Kenneth “Puri” Kanhai’s lifeless body was found on a desk near a pool of blood on the floor as a result of gunshot wounds to his forehead and other parts of his body. ...

The stealing of bail money by policemen on Thursday came in for sharp scrutiny by the Public Accounts Committee during an appearance by senior accounting and administrative officers of the police force. In a specific instance involving GUY$58,500 in station bail at Kitty Police Station in 2009 that the Auditor General had said was missing, Assistant Commissioner of Police (Administration), ...

The Director of Prisons, Welton Trotz on Thursday admitted that there is a lax system for the recording of fuel use by that correctional institution and he promised to take corrective measures. “There has been some lapse by driversd to show the journeys. I would have to take the flak for that,” he said. Trotz was among several senior members ...

The Guyana government on Thursday pinned its hopes against the country being blacklisted to public lobbying by the Secretary General of the Organisation of American States (OAS) Jose Miguel Insulza. “If FATF gives Guyana more time it is because of our friends” said Presidential Advisor on Governance Gail Teixeira at a post Cabinet news conference. The Financial Action Task Force ...

Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), Brigadier Mark Phillips on Wednesday welcomed the opposition’s support for beefing up the military’s capacity, following a meeting with Opposition Leader David Granger. “I’m heartened that the opposition is speaking with the same voice like the government as it pertains to re-capitalization of the GDF and recapitalization of the security forces ...

President Donald Ramotar on Wednesday announced that government would ask the United States (US) for information about local connections to the New York-Italian Mafia that was involved in trafficking cocaine to Italy. US Ambassador Brent Hardt said all the information so far that has been publicly released is with the Department of Justice (DoJ) and Guyanese law enforcement agencies could ...

Guyanese law enforcement agencies on Wednesday said they have not been contacted or involved in the dismantling of an international ring that had been planning to smuggle cocaine from Guyana to Italy. Deputy Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud said he has asked his subordinates to check on reports that the New York-Italian drug ring was connected to Guyana. While Guyana has ...