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A man who allegedly attempted to rob a couple was shot during an exchange of gunfire with a plain clothes policeman. He has been identified as 20-year old Jamal Cromwell of Tucville, Georgetown. Cromwell was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) after he turned up there four hours after the shootout with a gunshot injury. “At about 2030h ...

Two Guyanese nationals have been found guilty in the United States of for a US$14 million marijuana haul in the Caribbean Sea in September. The United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) states that Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent In Charge (SAC), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle ...

Soldiers are deployed in Rose Hall Town, Corentyne but this is not an anti-crime operation, Chief of Staff Brigadier Mark Phillips said Saturday. A number of persons passing through the municipality on Saturday were a bit uneasy by the heavy presence of soldiers. However, Phillips said the soldiers were on an Internal Security Training Exercise in Rose Hall for the ...

Professor of Governance and Politics at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Trevor Munroe wants donor countries and agencies to dig deeper to ensure that their taxpayers’ cash is not ending up in the pockets of corrupt politicians. Munroe, who is also Executive Director of National Integrity Action of Jamaica (NIAJ), also called on Transparency International (TI) to adjust ...

Finance Minister Dr.Ashni Singh on Saturday outlined a number of setbacks that Guyanese will face as a result of an advisory by the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF). The advisory was issued at the regional financial crimes watchdog’s plenary held earlier this week in The Bahamas. CFATF members were told to take the necessary measures to insulate themselves from ...

Venezuela’s state-owned airline, CONVIASA, will next month begin flights to and from Guyana and eventually expand to the rest of the Caribbean, a top official said Saturday. President of CONVIASA, Luis Gustavo Graterol Caraballo said the carrier would initially begin once weekly flights between Georgetown and Puerto Ordaz where there is a large Guyanese community and then increase it to ...

A businessman Saturday morning shot dead his wife and then committed suicide by turning the gun on himself. The murder-suicide occurred above their business enterprise, Guardian and Auto Bazaar, Garnett Street and Delph Avenue about 3 AM. Dead are Moses and Nadia Looknauth. Sources said that the man was highly indebted to a local commercial bank and the business was ...

Five persons, including one Ghanaian arrested on Tuesday in Sekondi in the Western region on board a Guyanese ship containing 21 bags of cocaine worth fifty million dollars, have pleaded guilty to charges of possessing narcotic drug, when they were arraigned before an Accra High court,today, November 22, 2013. The accused persons, Mila Ronald, captain of the ship, Perceval Curt, ...

A minibus driver was Friday night killed in an accident on the Essequibo Coast public road. His only name has been given as Safraz of Perth Village, Essequibo Coast. Two other occupants of the Route 21 bus received minor injuries. The circumstances of the mishap were not immediately clear. The accident occurred at Maria’s Delight, Essequibo Coast.

Venezuela’s CONVIASA Airline will be operating a non-commercial inaugural flight into the Cheddi Jagan International Airport on Saturday to mark the beginning of their once weekly commercial flight plying the Puerto Ordaz/ Georgetown route, the Cheddi Jagan International Airport said in a statement. This enterprise comes on the heels of the Fifth Meeting of the Guyana-Venezuela High Level Bilateral Commission ...