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Two suspects in the Ministry of Public Works payroll heist have been arrested following a shooting incident involving them, police said Thursday. Deputy Police Commissioner, Seelall Persaud said Kelly Aaron was shot in his abdomen at 2463 Safari Street, North Ruimveldt, Georgetown. The suspect in the shooting incident has been identified as Lloyd Sadloo who police described as a “known ...

Residents and businesses in Lethem will now have to pay more for electricity from January 2014 as the company copes with spiralling operational costs and pushes ahead with plans to triple power supply, several residents said. Several residents said they received letters from the LPC accompanying their December “light bills” stating that the cost of electricity has gone up to ...

(GHANA’S CITIFM ONLINE).-Officials of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB), has in a joint collaboration exercise with its various responsible agencies, destroyed 413 slabs of cocaine which were brought into the country by four Guyanese and a Ghanaian with an estimated street value of $US60 million dollars. The exercise was executed on the orders of trial judge, Justice C.J. Hoenyenugah, a ...

Investigators were Wednesday expected to conduct ballistic tests to determine whether a policeman was shot by ‘friendly fire’ or  with a gun that a detainee had grabbed from another policeman shortly before escaping from custody at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). Deputy Police Commissioner, Seelall Persaud told Demerara Waves Online News that the autopsy revealed that Detective Corporal Seburn ...

Veteran Guyanese broadcaster, Terrence Holder died on Wednesday after a prolonged illness, a family member confirmed. He was 73. After falling ill with cancer, he retired from the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) where he had served as its Deputy General Manager (Public Communications). Holder, a former Secretary General of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU), began his broadcasting career ...

A sickly Trinidad-born Canadian man who attempted to smuggle nine kilogrammes of cocaine to Canada was Wednesday arraigned and remanded to prison. 58-year old Edward Jones pleaded not guilty to being in possession of 9.545 kilogrammes of the narcotic for the purpose of trafficking. He was arrested at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport on Tuesday, January 6 with the cocaine ...

Guyana on Wednesday signalled that it was open to re-negotiating the United States (US)-funded Leadership and Democracy (LEAD) project but vowed that it would not be doing so under while the project is still being implemented despite government’s approval. “We ain’t negotiating under duress. We are not discussing a project and its implementation whilst it’s being implemented,” Head of the ...

One suspected robber was shot and two others arrested Wednesday morning at Haslington, East Coast Demerara while attempting to rob a businessman outside his home, police said. Two of the men are from Haslington and the other is from Bee Hive, East Coast Demerara. Guyana Police Force spokesman, Ivelaw Whittakere said that about 5:15 AM, 63-year old Dularie Rajkumar of ...

Bridgetown, 7 January 2014 – In response to serious damage caused by a Low Level Trough System in the Eastern Caribbean region, the European Commission’s Department of Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (ECHO) has released more than €300,000 to bring immediate relief to the population most affected by floods. “Damage in the Eastern Caribbean has been very significant, mainly because ...

Lawmakers of the governing Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) on Monday dodged questions about the quantitative purchasing power of the minimum salary being paid to public servants. Party General Secretary, Clement Rohee and Manzoor Nadir lauded government for increases in salaries and general improvement in the quality of life by Guyanese since 1992. “Today as a result of sustained increases in ...