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A Guyanese man has been arrested in neighbouring Brazil for setting fire to homes where Venezuelans are seeking refuge in Boa Vista, the capital of Roraima State, media reported. He has been identified as 42-year old Gordon “Jamaica” Fowler. He was arrested by the General Homicide Office of the Civilian Police at about 9 O’clock Saturday night in the Mecejana ...

A Stanleytown, New Amsterdam resident at about 20:30hrs on Saturday evening became Berbice’s latest road fatality victim, after he was crushed to death by a 4×4 Vehicle. The accident, which occurred on Stanleytown main road, has resulted in the death of Rohan ‘Pompey’ Pooran , 43, of lot 58 Stanleytown New Amsterdam Berbice. Demerara Waves Online News understands that Pooran ...

A funeral parlour accountant was early Saturday morning found dead outside his home at La Bonne Intention (LBI), East Coast Demerara. Dead is 60-year old Sheik Mohamed Hack of 108 LBI, East Coast Demerara. He was an accountant at Sandy’s Funeral Home. Investigators said a passerby saw the man’s body, face up, at about 7:30 AM outside his residence with ...

The seven-year old girl, who rescued her four year old brother from their burning house by letting him down with a bed sheet, was Saturday morning honoured by the Guyana Police Force. “We have recognized her bravery, and brilliant thinking from a humanitarian standpoint at such a tender age,” the police force said. Demerara Waves Online News also understands that ...

Several cars and numerous vehicle parts have been seized as Guyanese police widen their net to crackdown on a massive trade in stolen vehicles and parts. Police said they Friday night swooped down on a property located at Monument Hill, Kuru Kururu, Soesdyke/Linden Highway and conducted a search during which a quantity of vehicle parts and several vehicles suspected to ...

Plans are moving ahead to build a modular oil refinery to produce fuels for the Guyanese and northern Brazilian markets, with the major sources of crude expected to be from ExxonMobil or any other supplier at competitive prices, officials said Friday. “The plan is to basically start construction at the end of this year and through next year so that ...

  A 64 year-old pensioner yesterday violently attacked and wounded an employee of the Guyana Power & Light Inc. who was a member of a disconnection crew that went to the Lot 128 Sophia resident’s home to disconnect her electricity, police said, “Minutes later, a police patrol responded and during the process of arresting the female suspect, who was still ...

Guyana and Brazil on Friday agreed to review a 2012 joint communiqué to intensify defence cooperation between the two South American nations. The Ministry of the Presidency said the decision was taken when President David Granger, joined by some ministers of Government and members of the Defence Board on Friday, hosted Brazil’s Minister of Defence, Mr. Raul Jungmann Pinto, along ...

Hosting of the inaugural Guyana International Petroleum Business Summit and Exhibition (GIPEX 2018), which ended Friday, cost a minimum US$500,000 to host but officials hailed the three-day event as a wider success for the tourism and hospitality industry. “The one that has been mentioned the least is what this event has done for the tourism industry and the services sector in Guyana,” Chief Executive ...

Locally-owned and controlled businesses need to find new ways of operating in order to be prepared to grasp opportunities in the burgeoning oil sector, top officials of Canada and Guyana said as the inaugural Guyana International Petroleum Business Summit & Exhibition (GIPEX 2018) came to a close. Canada’s High Commissioner to Guyana, Lilian Chaterjee and the Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana ...