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A suspected bandit was arrested late Tuesday night but two of his accomplices escaped after a shootout with police on La Grange Public Road, West Bank Demerara where they minutes earlier robbed a resident of Campbellville, Georgetown, police said. The Guyana Police Force said one of the suspects opened fire on a patrol that responded to a report of an ...

A woman has been arrested in connection with the alleged discovery of 540 grammes of cocaine in a parcel containing a Hindu havan kund. The estimated street value is about US$2,500 to US$2,700 but the head of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) said it would be worth more in the United Kingdom. CANU said the narcotic was in the parcel with ...

The driver of a car has admitted to hitting down Reonol “Ram” Williams and dumping the body after he realised that the man was unresponsive, the Head of the Police Force’s Criminal Investigations Department, Wendell Blanhum said Tuesday night. “The suspect has confessed that he was the driver of the motorcar when it struck down Reonol Williams,” Mr. Blanhum told ...

A helicopter belonging to Air Services Limited (ASL) Tuesday morning made a precautionary landing on a road due to technical difficulties. Director-General of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) Retired Lt. Colonel Egbert Field confirms that the pilot landed the aircraft on a road after it began vibrating. “It landed safely on a road,” Mr. Field told Demerara Waves Online ...

The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) says it is not true that American Airlines will be cancelling all flights to Guyana from August 1.  “The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) hereby advises the general public that there is a fake memo dated June 10, 2022 which alleges that it is from American Airlines,” the aviation regulatory agency said. According to ...

A carpenter  has been electrocuted while building a wooden step in his home village of Buxton, East Coast Demerara, police said. He has been identified as 30-year old Conrad Spencer of Lot 10 Company Road, Buxton, East Coast Demerara. Police said that at about 9:30 Sunday morning, Spencer was cutting wood with an electrical saw that came into contact with ...

The man, who allegedly killed his wife,  has been charged with murder. Police say Clarence Farley was read the indictable offence when he appeared in court on Monday before Magistrate Faith Mc Gusty. He was remanded to prison until June 27. He is accused of the murder of Carnegie School of Home Economics teacher, Omega Ault, at their home at ...

Police have arrested four persons who allegedly murdered a security guard in the vicinity of the Brickdam Secondary School, Georgetown, the Guyana Police Force said. The woman has been identified as 21-year old Carol Davidson who lived at East La Penitence Squatting Area. She was lashed several times and stabbed to her left side chest, police said. Police say they ...

The body of a boat captain has been found in a fuel tank aboard the vessel he was in charge of, the Guyana Police Force said. Dead is 28-year old Saigon Hopkinson of 71 East Potaro Road, Bartica. Police were informed that two sailors found Hopkinson’s body in the fuel tank at about 8 O’clock Monday morning. At the time, ...

Former President David Granger and a number of his key political allies were seen at former People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) General Secretary, Amna Ally’s birthday celebration. Neither current leader Aubrey Norton nor any of his known PNCR internal allies were seen in the several pictures that were posted by Ganesh Mahipaul, a Central Executive member and A Partnership for ...