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A Nigerian man, who entered into Guyana illegally, was Tuesday slapped with a GUY$30,000 fine or two months imprisonment and ordered deperted. It is alleged that on July 1 2013, at Springlands Corentyne, Anthony Acka arrived in Guyana by water and disembarked without the consent of an Immigration Officer; contrary to Guyanese law. When asked whether he pleaded guilty or ...

A man who stole an GUY$8,000 phone because he was hungry is now faced with a GUY$20,000 fine or  three months imprisonment. The charge against Devrox Gomes is that on July 6 2013, at Zan Department Trading Store, he stole an Alcatel cellular phone property of Kamini Sugrim. The man pleaded guilty and was given a chance by the Magistrate ...

A 27-year old man was Monday night shot dead during an invasion of his home at Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara. Police said Omadat “Vicky” Persaud of Supply Mahaica was shot to his head by one three bandits who barged into his home around 8:30 PM. Two of the perpetrators carried guns. Investigators said that Yogendra Naipaul, 38, his wife Omadai ...

A man, who was deported from Canada, is accused of forging a Guyana passport which he used to conduct land-related business at the Deeds Registry. Andrew Hart was charged with intent to defraud the Guyana government by conspiring with persons known or unknown to forge a Guyana passport R012359 purporting to show that the travel document was issued by the ...

A young American soldier of Guyanese parentage was killed in Afghanistan on US Independence Day when his unit was attacked by a rocket-propelled grenade. 18-year old Pvt. Errol “Elijah” Duran Aster Milliard of Birmingham, Alabama leaves to mourn, among others, his father Evan Gibson. Gibson said he learnt that his only son, a combat engineer, was killed in the city ...

Fewer Guyanese teachers are migrating to take up lucrative job offers because recruiters are no longer targeting the South American nation but are instead giving priority to their nationals, officials said Monday. “There is not a grave problem. It is not a free flow like before,” President of the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU), Colin Bynoe told Demerara Waves Online News ...

Guyana has ratified the UN Arms Trade Treaty becoming the second country to do so. This was included in a correspondence from the Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA) to Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman and seen by DemWaves. “I am pleased to inform you that the Government of Guyana deposited its Instrument of Ratification of the Arms Trade ...

Ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Executive Member Clement Rohee says the recent writings in the press linking the party to corruption are meant to influence delegates to “revolt” at its August 2 to 4 Congress. His comment at a Monday media briefing was part of an extended response to a question on the view that the party had strayed from ...

Re-migrant Cecil Gajadhar, who decided to open a relatively small filling station on the East Coast Demerara, Monday morning narrowly escaped death but his employee was shot dead during an GUY$8 million heist. Gajadhar, 71, of Foulis, East Coast Demerara sustained a gunshot injury to his forehead and was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) where he received ...

A 32-year old man was gunned down on the Vryheid’s Lust Seawall, East Coast Demerara hours after leaving his pregnant common-law wife to be in the company of another woman, relatives said. Police identified the dead man as Tyrone Boodhoo of Better Hope (Area H), East Coast Demerara. Investigators said he and 23-year old Martha Mohammed were on the seawall ...