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President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday defended Guyana’s decision to deport more than 20 Haitians who have been detained by police here on arrival since late last month, saying that evidence points to people smuggling. “This was people smuggling. A lot of it was people smuggling. You had children there without their parents. You had the breach of our immigration laws ...

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has recovered a key image of a shipping container suspected to have contained 11.5 tons of cocaine that had been busted in Belgium in early November, multiple sources have confirmed. Officials said the process was painstaking and delicate in order not to damage the hard drive that stores images of scanned shipping containers. The officials ...

Licensed arms and ammunition, Larry Singh, has been sued by the Guyana government for failing to supply more than GYD$369 million in firearms and ammunition to the Guyana Defence Force between 2014 and 2016, according to court papers filed by Attorney General Anil Nandlall. The National Procurement and Tender Administration (NPTAB) had granted approval for the GDF to sole source ...

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT) has added a new automated assistant to allow postpaid customers to easily check their outstanding balances and reduce the number of enquiries to the Call Centre “About 20 per cent of our customers would call agents to find out their balance. With this new system, they can just pick up their phones and check ...

Two Venezuelans and a Guyanese have been charged with the murder of a Guyanese shopkeeper who last weeks sought to defend his wife from bandits at their shop at Port Kaituma. Police say the Director of Public Prosecutions has advised that Guyanese gold miner 22-year old Nadeem Baksh of Airy Hall, Mahaicony and Venezuelan gold miners, 22-year old Gilberto Da ...

A man, who was sentenced to 66 years imprisonment for murdering a woman during a fight over a rooster has received a sentence reduction by the  Guyana Court of Appeal. Mark Assing called ‘Jessie’, now 48 years old, was convicted in 2014 for the June 2012 murder of Mc Doom, East Bank Demerara resident Ms. Abiola Eadie. In handing down ...

Sleepin Hotel’s Carnival Casino has received its licence on Monday  after submitting a fresh application to the Gaming Authority, ending a six-year long wait and the initial employment of 150 persons, hotelier Clifton Bacchus said Tuesday. He explained that while the application was submitted recently, he had been engaging the Gaming Authority for about three months, providing that regulatory and ...

The opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) wants the High Court to hear the two election petitions, although Mr. David Granger signed the wrong date on a court document to facilitate the fixing a date to hear arguments. Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire says she will hand down her decision on January 18, 2021 on whether to dismiss ...

A  52-year old man allegedly committed suicide after he chopped a woman because she refused his desire to have a relationship with her 14-year old daughter. Police say after she refused, boat captain Jerry Narine, entered the yard of Michelle Russell with two cutlasses and a knife. Investigators say the man then went to the apartment of  Michelle Russell and ...

Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony, on the occasion of World AIDS Day being observed on Tuesday, announced that Guyana is among several Caribbean countries that have inched closer to most people living with HIV knowing their status. “I am happy to announce Guyana was identified among countries in the Caribbean to have made significant strides in achieving the first 90 ...