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Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Ambassador Irwin LaRocque and Director-General of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Irina Bokova,on Monday committed to strengthening relations between the two organisations with the signing of a revised Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The Caricom headquarterse said the signing ceremony took place in Paris, France, at the Thirty-Seventh General Conference of UNESCO, ...

A restaurateur was robbed of GUY$3.5 million dollars on the Mabura Road by gunmen Sunday night, police said. He is 58-years old Peter Rajmangal of Friendship Public Road, East Bank Demerara. Police said Rajmangal was driving a minibus on 58-miles Mabura Road when an oncoming car swerved and blocked his path. Two gunmen exited, held him up and took away ...

Three policemen were among seven persons still in custody on Monday in connection with a massive heist of gold and cash from a mining company in Port Kaituma, police said. Deputy Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud also told Demerara Waves Online News that all of the undisclosed amount of gold and cash has been recovered. All the gold have been found ...

Several persons were up to early Monday morning in police custody in connection with heist of at least 100 ounces of raw gold and cash from a mining company in Port Kaituma, according to well placed sources. Sources confirmed that a quantity of the booty was located in Berbice and those arrested include three employees. At least GUY$5 million have ...

PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC – The police have rescued three teenage Guyanese girls who were kept as sex slaves in a brothel in a gold mining township in the Suriname’s interior. The police report that during a raid of the brothel, three individuals including a Guyanese woman, allegedly the owner of the brothel, her husband and a bodyguard were arrested. The ...

President Donald Ramotar says he will be re-considering relations with the parliamentary opposition following defeat of the key anti-money laundering legislation in the National Assembly on Thursday. “With last night’s development, all hope is now lost that the opposition has any intention in being a partner in developing our country. It is in this context that I am forced to ...

(JAMAICA OBSERVER).-KINGSTON, Jamaica.- Fifty-two packages of cocaine weighing 57.5 kg, with an estimated street value of US$57,000 or J$57 million, were seized Thursday in a joint operation by Jamaica Customs and the Trans-national Crime and Narcotics Division (TCND) at Kingston Freezone. According to the Jamaica Customs Department, the contraband was found wrapped in brown masking tape in a 40-foot import ...

Suspected marijuana cultivators allegedly opened fire on police in Ituni Backdam where lawmen arrested four persons and seized a quantity of the narcotic and a large quantity of ammunition and magazines. “During the operation the police ranks came under fire and returned fire as a result,” said Police Force spokesman Ivelaw Whittaker. Two other suspects escaped. During the drug eradication ...

Guyana’s Private Sector Commission (PSC) on Friday heaped scorn on the combined opposition for rubbishing its petition to the National Assembly for passage of amendments to the financial crimes law. But A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) laid the blame squarely at the feet of the Peoples Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) administration for not acting on a number of key ...

Guyana on Thursday vowed not to give up an inch of its territory in exchange for short-term benefits, in the wake of Venezuela’s navy arresting a seismic research ship in Guyana’s waters off the Essequibo Coast. “Guyana will not, I repeat will not, compromise its principles nor sacrifice any of its national patrimony for ephemeral gains displayed on the altar ...