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  This was the mantra chanted as over 200 persons from near and far crowded the home of 13-year-old Leonard Archibald at Brothers Village, East Bank Berbice to say their final goodbyes. Though many donned the traditional black and white attire, others sported red in remembrance of a bright young spirit who was killed before his time. Young Leonard Archibald’s ...

Approximately 7,500 tonnes of white rice is being exported to Cuba, following an announcement made by the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) of possible exports to that Caribbean country. Government’s Department of Public Information reported that on Monday, September 25, 2017 the rice was loaded on a vessel docked at Muneshwer’s Wharf in Georgetown. General Manager (ag) of the GRDB, ...

Fifty six-year-old Randolph ‘Joseph’ Tahal on Monday appeared at the New Amsterdam Magistrate Court to answer to the capital offence of murder allegedly committed on his wife. The charge, read by Magistrate Alex Moore, stated that between Sunday 17th and Tuesday 19th September, 2017, her murdered his wife 58-year-old Janet Tahal. The story only came to light after the woman ...

A young mother is wanted by anti-drug agents for allegedly attempting to smuggle several cocaine-soaked hammocks to the United States (US). The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) said they were searching for 26-year old Tiffni Collison after their agents intercepted the items last Thursday, September 21, 2017 at the Eugene Correia International Airport, Ogle, East Coast Demerara. CANU alleged that Collison of ...

All companies that have formally expressed an interest in buying parts of the Guyana Sugar Corporation’s (Guysuco) operations will now have to resubmit their proposals to the holding company for government’s assets, the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), top officials said. NCIL’s Chief Executive Officer, Horace James said “there is nothing like first-jump” and all the companies would ...

Police say they are investigating a robbery/murder which occurred about 00:45h Sunday morning at lot 194 Freeman Street , East La Penitence. Dead is Fazal Shaheed,58,self employed of 18 Albion, Corentyne,Berbice. Talin Shaheed,50, of Toronto , Canada and Shalim Shaheed,53, of the USA, who were also in the house, were attacked by the two masked men one of whom was ...

Veteran Guyanese journalist, Nils Campbell, died early Sunday morning in Tampa, Florida after a prolonged illness, family members confirmed. He was in his 70s. Family members said he died in hospital. Campbell was hypertensive, and although he had suffered a stroke several years ago, had managed to be somewhat active in the field of journalism. Prior to going to the ...

A large crowd of spectators gathered at the Friend’s Village dam to get a glimpse of the decomposed body of 13-year-old Leonard Archibald who was brutally sodomised and murdered by two known characters in the community. As the undertakers approached, loud wails could be heard coming from family members who had hopes that Leonard was still alive. Family members who ...

The decomposed body of the 13-year old  boy, who was raped and dumped in an unconscious state in the Berbice River six days after he went missing , was Saturday afternoon retrieved from the watery grave, police said. Demerara Waves Online News observed that the body of Leonard Archibald was ‘tied like an iguana’ – his hands and feet were ...

It was a sombre mood at the house of 13-year-old Leonard Archibald who disappeared last Sunday 17th September after leaving a birthday party with his sisters. The story of young Archibald tells a horrid tale of a teenage boy brutally raped and then his unconscious body dumped behind the suspect’s home. Although this is the first time the suspect confessed ...