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A prime suspect in an armed robbery of a vendor in Sophia, Greater Georgetown and seven other men stormed the home of the victim several hours after he reported the incident to police, investigators said Saturday. Twenty-seven year old Glenroy Griffith of ‘B’ Field, Sophia told police that at about 4:30 Friday afternoon, he and several other persons were liming ...

Guyana National Forensic Laboratory experts on Saturday ruled out the rock-like substances, found in a car with the bodies of two dead men on the Marriott Hotel parking lot, being narcotics but they suspect that it is sodium cyanide which is lethal in small quantities. The Guyana Police Force said it could not test for sodium cyanide and so the ...

Air Services Limited (ASL) said its Cessna Caravan 8RGAS suffered an engine fire upon shutdown at ASL ramp Ogle after returning from a Mathew’s Ridge flight Saturday morning at about 10:30. “The company’s emergency response team contained the fire and secured the aircraft. The pilot and 3 passengers safely exited the aircraft unharmed,” the domestic carrier said Guyana Civil Aviation ...

A mere four months after Dr. Richard Van West-Charles was appointed advisor to the Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Aubrey Norton, he on Friday appeared set to pull out from that post over concerns about his leader’s poor communication and lack of consultation. “I have therefore concluded that until the role of, and the process by which ...

A Guyanese man, who is wanted in his native country for murder, has been arrested in neighbouring Suriname for having committing a sexual offence with an 11-year old girl, Surinamese police said Thursday. The Suriname Police Corps said a special team from the Youth Affairs Department on Wednesday, April 20 arrested 33-year-old Samuel Chase S. after a thorough investigation. Head ...

A US$300 million shorebase would be constructed at Vreed-en-Hoop, West Bank Demerara by a wholly-owned Guyanese company, and ExxonMobil on Friday inked a deal to lease the facility when it is finished in the fourth quarter of 2023. Speaking at the signing of the agreement between Vreed-en-Hoop Shorebase Inc (VEHSI) and ExxonMobil Guyana,  Director of NRG Holdings Inc; Nicholas Deygoo-Boyer ...

Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony on Friday said he has instructed that the contracts of more than 30 workers at the Linden Hospital Complex be renewed and that letters informing them that their services would no longer be required be rescinded. “This was action taken at the level of the Linden Hospital but when I learnt about it, we have ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton wants his meeting with President Irfaan Ali to discuss several matters affecting Guyanese rather than only the appointment of several service commissions. “As I understand it, the opposition is to represent the cause of the people of Guyana and, in representing them, there will be constitutional matters and there will be matters that are not stated ...

The Guyana government would be building 300 prefabricated houses to rent to spectators at the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) from September 30 and the earnings would be used as down-payments for mortgages at commercial banks, President Irfaan Ali announced on Wednesday. “We are looking at a way in which we can marry cricket with uplifting people out of poverty,” he ...

Suriname’s President, Chandrikapersad Santokhi is expected to provide a breakdown of the number of fishing licences that has been granted to Guyanese but his Guyanese counterpart wants to see if those figures are before or after their agreement for 150 licences, President Irfaan Ali said Wednesday. The Guyanese leader said in talks earlier Wednesday, both Mr. Santokhi and Foreign Affairs ...