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The Demerara Harbour Bridge resumed operations shortly before 9 O’clock Sunday morning after a vessel slammed into it forcing its closure for several hours, a bridge official said. The incident occurred shortly after 5 AM. Repairs were completed well ahead of the scheduled resumption which was tentatively put at 11 AM. An official confirmed that due to the incident, the ...

Georgetown is to be divided into four quadrants towards easing traffic congestion in the city, Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee told the media on Friday. Cabinet has granted approved for the plan which will see Georgetown divided into four quadrants; North West, North East, South East and South West. A commencement date of March 2014 has been set by ...

Muri Brasil Ventures Incorporatedon Saturday announced that it has scrapped plans to conduct a geographicl and geophysical survey in the New River Triangle due to concerns being raised about the project in several quarters. The decision came just about two weeks after Transport Minister, Robeson Benn announced that the company has been refused permission to build an airstrip in the ...

Guyana Friday night recorded its first reported domestic violence-related death with the killing of a mother of two by her common-law husband. The dead woman has been identified as Malaika Adams of Dazzell Scheme, Paradise, East Coast Demerara. The suspect, Paul Scotland of Mahaica Squatting Area, surrendered at the Enmore Police Station and he was later transferred to the Cove ...

The governing Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) has announced a new political strategy to attract more non-members in the hope of regaining its parliamentary majority at the next general and regional elections. PPP General Secretary, Clement Rohee said the Marxist-Leninist oriented party has decided to establish a “broad left, progressive, democratic front” involving a number of categories of stakeholders including politicians ...

Training of members of the Special Weapons and Tactics Unit (SWAT) team by a United States (US) company is expected to begin later this month, Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee announced on Friday. The Home Affairs Minister said an organisational needs assessment for the unit has been completed while actual training would begin in mid-January. Rohee said the unit would ...

An international operation has resulted in the interception of a Guyanese trawler with a large quantity of marijuana and the arrest of six Guyanese and one Surinamese, well-placed sources said Friday. The trawler, Kaminey, was arrested in international waters through cooperation among United States, British and Guyanese agencies last weekend. The identities of the men are unlikely to be released ...

Four persons were early Friday morning shot in Albouystown, Georgetown, according to well-placed sources. They are 29-year old Courtney Sandy, 20-year old Nikita Glasgow, Randy Bharrat and an unidentified female. Sandy was shot to the shin bone, Glasgow to one of her feet and Bharrat to his left side and lower back. Bharrat and the unidentified female were taken to ...

The Home Affairs Ministry on Thursday feared that firearms and ammunition are being smuggled inside the Georgetown Prison as part of a plot being hatched to cause mayhem. Rohee vowed that every effort would be made to disrupt those plans by searching for firearms at any prison. “Nefarious plans and conspiracies hatched in or out of prisons to disrupt the ...

A 16-year old boy is feared drowned after he disappeared from the Kitty Jetty shortly before 6 PM Thursday, his mother said. He has been identified as Jerome Sturge of 32 East Ruimveldt Front Road, Squatting Area, Margaret Persaud told Demerara Waves Online News (www.demwaves.com). Sturge’s mother said she first learnt of her son’s disappearance from the jetty when a ...