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A Customs Enforcement Officer , who is implicated in the shooting injury of two horse cart operators in a vacant land next to his home, on Thursday pleaded not guilty and was granted a total of GY$200,000 bail.  The case was postponed to March 20th, 2022 for statements. Police said  Sparendaam Magistrate R. Liverpool  arraigned 49-year old David Ali on ...

A city businessman is among four persons arrested in connection with the alleged discovery of an estimated GY$19.8 million in local and foreign currencies, a large quantity of smuggled liquor and two kilogrammes of marijuana at his Georgetown home, police said. The Guyana Police Force said the cash, marijuana and un-customed liquor were seized from his house on East Street, ...

The Graphogame literacy app touted as one of the best in the world is now available for Guyana’s school children who are four to nine years old, the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT) and STEMGuyana said Tuesday. The app, which was recently rolled out in Jamaica’s primary education system, is now accessible locally through the collaboration between GTT and STEM ...

The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Tuesday called on the government to subsidise the price of wheat flour, just days National Milling Company announced a 15 percent hike in the staple’s price.  The AFC says the treasury has sufficient money from the extra earnings due to the increase in world oil prices. “The state can easily afford to cover the ...

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Tuesday ruled that Guyana’s Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) could not unilaterally order a Magistrate to conduct another preliminary inquiry but must instead ask the High Court to decide. In a unanimous decision that saw murder-accused Guyana-born American Marcus Bisram being a free man unless there is fresh evidence for the DPP to ...

A Customs Officer, who shot and injured two horse cart operators who went to a vacant lot near his residence for grass for their animals, has been arrested, police said. Police say the Customs Officer used a 9 MM pistol, which is the property of the Guyana Revenue Authority, and opened fire on the men. The incident occurred at about ...

A Guyana Defence Force Corporal was early Monday morning stabbed to death at a wedding house during a dispute over the music that was being played. He has been identified as 28-year old Chavez Mangal of Enterprise, East Coast Demerara. He was stabbed shortly after midnight at Lot 142 Good Hope, East Coast Demerara. Police say they have arrested one ...

The official of the Guyana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ‘ Animal Clinic’ , who shot herself to death in the compound of the Brickdam Police Station on Monday morning, was a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital’s Psychiatric Clinic and she had domestic problems, police said. The Guyana Police Force said 49-year old Trudy D’ Harte ...

A 19-year-old man was killed Sunday morning after he was shot inside a home in Buffalo, Upstate New York,  Buffalo News reported. He has been identified as 19-year old Royden Cave, a  student of SUNY Buffalo State College. College officials said he was a freshman criminal justice major. He was the son of Patrick Cave, a former employee of the ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday  ruled out an increase in electricity bills due to the rising cost of fuel, saying that government would step and subsidise the tariffs.  “We will keep the electricity prices the same way, and water prices, we would have to subsidise it to make sure that the impact is not felt by ordinary people,” he ...