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Less than one day after a minibus driver was chopped, shot and robbed at Plaisance, East Coast Demerara, one of the prime suspects was arrested at a neighbouring village, police sources said. Investigators nabbed 32-year old Kevin “Orwin” Peters at Sparendaam, a village immediately east of Plaisance. Said to be a welder, the suspect lives at 79 Graham Street, Plaisance. ...

A minibus driver was shot and chopped about his body by bandits who robbed him of GY$14,000 while he was at Victoria Road, Plaisance, East Coast Demerara, police said. Injured and hospitalised is 37-year old Alfred Braithwaite of South Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara. He told police that at about 6:45 Saturday evening, he was standing in front of a Superbet shop ...

A Guyana Defence Force (GDF) soldier and another man have been arrested in connection with an alleged armed robbery of a Chief Prison Officer, police said. Investigator said the Corporal and the man allegedly robbed the Chief Prison Officer at about 1 AM Saturday on the Soesdyke Public Road, East Bank Demerara by four men one of whom was armed ...

City Hall on Saturday slammed two Councillors who are in the forefront of calls for Town Clerk, Royston King to be removed from office, as well as the entire elected body for failing to craft a single policy to improve the management of Georgetown. In a statement issued on Saturday in the name of Mayor and City Council spokeswoman, Debra ...

President David Granger on Saturday mourned the passing of Retired Justice Mohamed Shahahbuddeen, a former Attorney General of Guyana and judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Shahabudeen was 86 years old. Following is the full text of President Granger’s message of condolence. His Excellency David Granger, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, extends heartfelt condolences to the family ...

The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Saturday said it would be ready to contest local government elections with A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) but that grouping must first make an offer, a top party official said. “We are prepared to (coalesce) if the APNU wants us with them and it is for them to say and how,” the official ...

Former Attorney General of Guyana, Mohammed Shahabudeen has died, sources confirmed. He was in his mid 80s. Shahabudeen was also a former judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) from 1988 to 1997. He has worked as an Arbitrator and Consultant in international law. Since 1959, he worked for the Guyana government and in politics until 1962 as a ...

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) has begun moving troops closer to the Guyana-Venezuela border amid reports of heavily armed Venezuelan ‘Sindicato’ gangs and curb the smuggling of illegal guns for food, officials said. Minister of State, Joseph Harmon said Guyana was aware of violent incidents, including the beheading of persons, by Sindicatos. “We have had several reports in that area ...

The Citizen Security Strengthening Programme (CSSP) will facilitate the construction of 18 victim-friendly police stations which are slated to be completed by the end of 2018. With funding from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), government said those stations are being redesigned to address the capacity issues in responding to crime and violence within the country, which includes physical violence against ...

Royston King is likely to be removed from the post of Town Clerk of Georgetown because of growing dissatisfaction with his performance as head of the City’s administration, according to a high-ranking official of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR). “We are not pleased with his performance,” the veteran PNCR decision-maker told Demerara Waves Online News. At a meeting of ...