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(CBC CANADA).- Dr. George Doodnaught, the Toronto anesthesiologist found guilty of sexually assaulting 21 women while they were under conscious sedation in hospital, was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday. In delivering the sentence, Judge David McCombs called the crimes “shocking and abhorrent.” He said “a very substantial sentence” was necessary to send a clear message about the abhorrence ...

The Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) Wednesday morning busted a Guyanese woman with cocaine in achar shortly before she was about to board a flight to Canada where she resides, the airport said in a statement. The Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) said the 24 year-old woman was arrested after anti drug agents “discovered a quantity of cocaine in the ...

Thieves early Tuesday morning carted off close to GUY$1 million in cash and equipment from the KFC outlet at Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara. Managing Director, Deo Singh said the burglars blow-torched a metal safe from the ground where it was bolted down and carted it off with at least GUY$700,000. Singh said the thieves also took away with the video ...

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) on Tuesday pledged to help the Walter Rodney Inquiry Commission in its probe into the killing of the politician-historian in a bomb-blast near the Georgetown Prison more than 30 years ago. During discussions, COS Brigadier Phillips and his team, which included Deputy COS Col Kemraj Persaud and other senior officers, presented a synopsis of the ...

A member of the  Guyana Sex Worker Coalition, Tishana Edwards was Tuesday remanded to prison on a charge of being in possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking. Twenty-three year old Tishana Edwards of Lot 1 Victoria Road, Plaisance pleaded not guilty to the charge when she appeared before Chief Magistrate, Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.  The Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) ...

A three-member commission was Monday sworn in to probe the bomb-blast death of Guyanese politician, Dr. Walter Rodney at the height of a civil rebellion against the then administration of late President Forbes Burnham. Chairman of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry, Sir Richard Cheltenham, however, said he was unsure when sittings would begin because it all depended on the accumulation ...

General Secretary of the Peoples Progressive Party (PPP), Clement Rohee on Tuesday shrugged off questions about Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh’s involvement in an accident on Mash Day. Asked his views about Singh allegedly leaving the scene without rendering assistance to the taxi driver and his passenger, Rohee would only say that it was “strictly speaking” in the hands of ...

(TRINIDAD GUARDIAN).-Guyana’s Karen De Souza of the women and children’s  rights organisation-Red Thread- is among three persons who are 2014 laureates of the Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Awards for Excellence. De Souza was awarded for Public and Civic Contributions. The others are Professor Liam Teague of Trinidad in the category of f Arts and Letters and Dr. Richard Robertson of ...

The Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) on Monday said that almost one month after a policeman slammed into the thoroughfare and tossed the Bridge Manager, Rawlston Adams’ cellular phone into the river “The Police are currently conducting an internal investigation into the matter,” the Harbour Bridge said in a statement. The Bridge company said policeman David Lindo crashed his vehicle into ...

A Guyanese non-governmental organisation plans to press government to pass a law on how to handle reports of missing persons, according to Imarah Radix, Programme Coordinator of Stella’s Sisterhood of Support and Service (S4) Foundation. Radix says the Missing Persons Act has been already drafted and her organisation would soon initiate talks with government about getting the law tabled in ...