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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 ...

An unnamed independent medical expert has found that there was upper rectal bleeding in Colwyn Harding to support his claim that a policeman sodomized him with a condom-covered baton. The results of the findings were released Wednesday afternoon by members of the Colwyn Harding Support Group. ‘That expert found that there was active rectal mucosa bleeding on Mr. Harding in ...

Investigators were up to Tuesday morning combing the debris to ascertain the cause of a fire which destroyed a house at Lot 8, Main Street, Ann’s Grove, East Coast Demerara. According to reports 30-year old Shamalli Scott and her niece vacated about three weeks prior to the fire. A fire official told Demerara Waves that neighbours said the fire started ...

A 19-year old suspect in a series of armed robberies on the Corentyne Coast is Wednesday expected back in court in connection with three incidents during the past two months. Kishan Hemnauth of 160 Section B, Number 65 Village is facing several charges of robbery under arms. He was not required to plea when he first appeared before Whim Magistrate ...