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A 25-year old female American student was Wednesday afternoon arrested after 4.5 kilogrammes of cocaine were found in her suitcase. Briana Ashley was an outgoing passenger on a Caribbean Airlines (CAL) flight to New York when Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) agents discovered the illicit substance in a false bottom of her suitcase. She was arrested, questioned and eventually transported ...

The United States (US) is probing another visa racket allegedly involving another Consular Officer, the State Department has confirmed. “The Department of State is aware of allegations of improprieties relating to a Consular Officer formerly assigned to Georgetown, Guyana,” according to a statement issued through the embassy here. The State Department did not provide specifics of the allegation or the ...

A Caribbean Airlines (CAL) cargo flight made precautionary landing at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) because of a reported fire in the wheel well, sources said. ABX Air, CAL’s cargo flight, departed CJIA at 10:52 AM destined for Trinidad’s Piarco International Airport. Flight number CAL 973 reported that there was fire in the wheel well at 10:56 and by ...

The High Court has granted an injunction barring the GECOM Commissioners from pronouncing on whether the contract of former Chief Elections Officer Gocool Boodoo should be renewed. Information reaching Demerara Waves Online News state that the Commission was served with the writ around 12.55 PM Tuesday, five minutes before a meeting to address the issue was scheduled to begin. DemWaves ...

Three former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Coast Guardsmen were Tuesday found guilty of murdering Dweive Kant Ramdass and dumping his body overboard after robbing him of millions of dollars. The 12-member jury returned a unanimous verdict of guilty. They were sentenced to death by hanging for the offence that was committed between August 20 and 22, 2009 at Caiman Hole, ...

A high-level official of the Region Three (Essequibo Islands- West Demerara) administration is being accused of sexual misconduct with a female officer, according to usually reliable sources. The official was Tuesday released on station bail after giving investigators an oral statement. He planned to submit a written statement shortly, police said. Police sources said the 37-year old woman alleged that ...

A Brazilian gold miner was Tuesday morning shot and killed and another man severely gun-butted during an armed robbery, his wife told Demerara Waves Online News (www.demwaves.com). Dead is 52-years old Jose Francisco De Sousa Lima. Rebecca Calvan, said her husband was shot to his head. The incident occurred on Sorabaro Road while De Sousa Lima and her stepson Julian ...

Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, will preside over the Thirty-Fourth Meeting of Heads of Government which opens in Port-of-Spain on Wednesday evening. Prime Minister Persad-Bissessar assumed the six-month rotational Chairmanship on 1 July. The Meeting, which coincides with the observance of the Fortieth Anniversary ...

CARICOM Programme Manager( Human Resource Development) Dr. Morella Joseph has urged regional stakeholders to adopt in short order the Bridgetown Declaration and Agenda for Action to Combat Child Sexual Abuse in the Caribbean, according to the Antigua and Barbuda Ministry of Social Transformation. Dr. Joseph said this move is in an effort to reaffirm government’s commitment and with  joint collaboration ...

A rice farmer was Monday night robbed when six gunmen invaded his home at Black Bush Polder, East Berbice. 46-year old Mohammed Salim was also gun-butted to his head by one of the masked men, police said. No shots were fired. Chief of Criminal Investigations, Deputy Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud said the bandits carted off two laptops, GUY$50,000 and jewellery ...