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A man slit the throat of his common-law wife early Tuesday morning and later hanged himself from a tree- a murder suicide that rocked the usually sleepy agriculture-dependent island of Leguan. The dead woman has been identified as 24-year old Sunita “Dolly” Lall. Police late Tuesday said the body of Yugindra Jagdai, 30 years, of Endeavour, Leguan, Essequibo, who was ...

Long-serving radio broadcaster, Oswald Singh, died late Monday night at the Woodlands Hospital following a heart attack. He was in his 50s. Singh was hospitalised on Sunday. Up to the time of his passing, he worked at the privately-owned Radio Guyana International (RGI). Singh joined radio in the mid 1980s at the now defunct Guyana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC). There, he ...

A locally-registered shipyard owned by Chinese nationals has begun targeting major Guyanese companies in the hope of building a variety of vessels for them, officials said. Located at Coverden, East Bank Demerara; Zhong Hao Shipyard Inc. is already in talks with BK International, Toolsie Persaud Limited and several fishing companies. Stacey Su who owns the company with her husband, Shuzairong ...

A man was Monday morning arrested after prison wardens found a number of shotgun cartridges in shoes that were being taken for an inmate of the Georgetown Prison, according to well-placed sources. Kelon Benjamin,29, of Station Street, Kitty, Georgetown was handed over to police after prison authorities completed their investigation. Preliminary information reaching Demerara Waves Online News (www.demwaves.com ) is ...

(CBS-AP).-MOSCOW — Mikhail Kalashnikov, whose work as a weapons designer for the Soviet Union is immortalized in the name of the world’s most popular firearm, died Monday at the age of 94. Kalashnikov once aspired to design farm equipment. But even though his most famous invention – the AK-47 assault rifle – sowed havoc instead of crops, he often said ...

Three armed bandits Monday afternoon committed an armed robbery at the Western Union branch at Harbour Bridge Mall, East Bank Demerara. At least 10 customers who were inside transacting business were ordered to lay face down on the floor while they were stripped of their valuables. Items stolen included cash, phones and jewellery. One of the victims said the bandits ...

An East Bank Essequibo woman is dead after being stabbed more than two dozen times allegedly by a man with whom she had a relationship. She has been identified as Sookdai Basdeo, 37, of Tuschen, EBE. The woman was found in her home around 7.45AM Monday with stab wounds about her body. The suspect, Iqbal Mohammed, reportedly turned himself in ...

The Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) says the power outages experienced thorughout the weekend were as a result of malfunctioning equipment.  Below is a release issued by the company on Monday. “December 22, 2013, Georgetown, Guyana: GPL wishes to advise our customers that the outages experienced on Saturday December 21, 2013, commencing at 14:10 hours, were the result of ...

“The house means a lot and I am happy with my own home and I would like to thank God because I was all over from here, there till God make way and I own my own home today,” says Amanda Anthony, a disabled woman. The estimated GUY$2.5 million one bedroom house- a disability friendly model- at Hope Lowlands, East ...

A 37-year old man died, who was returning home from a wedding house, is Guyana’s latest road fatality. He is Fazal Baksh of Cotton Tree, West Coast Berbice. Police said he was riding a motorcycle along the main road at D’Edward Village, West Coast Berbice at about 3:20 AM Sunday morning. “He lost control of the vehicle and collided with ...