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A man accused of inserting four false Guyana immigration stamps in an Antigua and Barbuda passport was Wednesday arraigned on a charge of conspiracy to commit a felony and he was granted bail. Thirty-seven year old Emram Mohabir of 1020 Canefield, East Canje, Berbice was granted GUY$200,000 bail by Chief Magistrate, Priya Sewnarine-Beharry. He also has to report to the ...

A shopkeeper was stabbed to death Wednesday at Tiger Creek, North West District, police said. He has been identified as 21-year old Tyrell Evans of Port Kaituma. Investigators were told that a group of persons had been in the shop and when they returned they found him dead with several stab wounds. Police said the shop was ransacked but it ...

The opposition political parties on Wednesday vowed to cut the 2014 National Budget, despite a High Court ruling earlier in the day that the National Assembly does not have the power to do so. Although Chief Justice Ian Chang said in his 21-page decision that the House could only disapprove of all or a section of the Budget, A Partnership ...

One of three bandits was shot dead at Dazzell Housing Scheme during a robbery, according to Deputy Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud. The two others escaped with a quantity of cash and jewellery belonging to businessman Ian Evans and his family. The incident occurred at Dazzell Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara about 2:15 PM. The bandist attacked Evans’ wife in the ...

The High Court on Wednesday ruled that the Opposition could not cut the National Budget, leaving it with the option to vote down sections of or the entire package of proposed expenditures. “In the circumstances, the court sees it fit to declare that the National Assembly through the Committee of Supply has acted unlawfully and unconstitutionally in purporting to reduce ...

A United States (US) deportee who was caught selling marijuana and cocaine to persons around Bourda Market was Tuesday convicted for possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking. Gordon Allen was fined GUY$25,000 and three years imprisonment for possession of 17 grams of marijuana, and fined GUY$3,000 and 14 consecutive Saturdays community service after he is released imprisonment for ...

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee on Monday said the security agencies have no hard evidence on which to arrest and convict suspect drug lords. “Most of these things are anecdotal. People walk around and say that is a drug lord, that is a drug baron but I don’t think law enforcement could work on the basis of that kind of ...

Guyana’s Home Affairs Minister, Clement Rohee on Monday ruled out the decriminalization of marijuana any time soon and said he was not worried that his country and the Caribbean would be eventually isolated. “I’m not worried about that because as Caricom (Caricom) we hold one position,” he told journalists at the release of the Ministry of Home Affairs 2012 National ...

Outgoing Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Ganga Persaud has slammed suggestions in sections of the media that he has quit the job over alleged sexual relations with a minor. “I wish to make it abundantly and unequivocally clear that I have had no sexual relations with any minor as is alleged or at all,” he said in a ...

Three young men were Monday arraigned on charges of robbing a store of more than GUY$8 million worth of cellular phones and other items. Nineteen-year old Darien Best, Morris Gibson, 21, and  20-year old Joel Mendonca pleaded not guilty to the charge of being armed with a gun they robbed Mohanlall Narine of a quantity of mobile phones valued GUY$8.19 ...