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A prisoner, who escaped from the Lusignan Prison early Saturday morning, was recaptured several hours later, police said. Police say 38-year old Quincy Clarke  was arrested on Callendar Street, Albouystown, Georgetown. He was nabbed at about 6:50  Saturday night by policemen and later handed over to officers of the Guyana Prison Service. During his escape at about 2 O’clock yesterday ...

A man has been arrested in connection with a robbery committed on a fisherman at Unity Junction, East Coast Demerara. Police say they have arrested one of the suspects known as ‘Thick Slice” and they are searching for two other men. The robbery was committed at about 5 O’clock  Saturday morning The fisherman told police that the men stole his ...

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), David Granger on Sunday- African Emancipation Day- said race relations was Guyana’s major problem rather than the burgeoning oil sector. “Guyana’s big problem is the problem of social cohesion. You may think that there are other problems- oil and the economy  and so on. The biggest problem we have is the ethnic ...

President Irfaan Ali on Sunday- African Emancipation Day- pledged Guyana’s commitment to work with the rest of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to continue pressing for compensation and other forms of justice for African enslavement “Guyana will continue to support the efforts being made within the Caribbean Community to press for the convening of an international summit to demand reparative justice ...

Amid discord in the mainly African Guyanese supported People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) about whether its constituency is being adequately represented by elected leaders, the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) urged that segment of the population to demand proper representation. “We urge the community to demand servant-leaders and more importantly to avoid being imprisoned by one party or the other,” said ...

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on the occasion of African Emancipation Day 2021 being observed on Sunday called for fair distribution of Guyana’s oil wealth including direct cash transfers to all Guyanese. The now main opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC), of which the WPA had been a member, had rejected the WPA’s idea of direct transfer ...

President Irfaan Ali on Saturday announced a GYD$7.3 billion direct cash transfer package to micro, small, medium and large farmers to help them recover from almost four months of severe floods caused by unusually heavy rainfall. “I am aware that this assistance will go a long way in bringing relief. However, it can never compensate for the emotional and social ...

A prisoner, who was convicted for using threatening language, has escaped from the Lusignan Prison but dropped a prison officer’s motorcycle that he attempted to steal, police said. Police said 38-year old Quincy Clarke of West La Penitence, Georgetown fled the East Coast Demerara penitentiary between 2 AM  and 2:10 AM on Saturday, July 31. Police were told that two ...

Caribbean Cinemas, which is located at Giftland Mall, on Saturday said it would be unable to reopen because the new COVID-19 prohibits the consumption of food inside the theatre. “Caribbean Cinemas will be unable to reopen in the Giftland Mall since, unlike other businesses, the cinemas were asked to maintain the restriction on selling food,” the company said. The Liliendaal, ...

A businessman and two other persons were Friday morning robbed of more than GYD$1  million in items while they were in a yard at Better Hope, East Coast Demerara, police said. Police were told that about 08:45 hours, the 40-year-old businessman as well as a 38-year-old housewife and another male were in their yard when two males on a blue ...