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Two persons were killed following two altercations on the lower East Coast Demerara, and five persons have since been arrested, police said. Dead are 39-year old Hetram Ramchar of  31 Crown Dam, Industry, and Bhagwan Ramadhar and 44-year old Bhagwan Ramadhar, a labourer, of Lot 50 Industry Front. In the incident involving Ramchar, police said that at about 7 AM Monday at ...

One of the victims of the recent freak storm at Bath Settlement on the West Coast of Berbice is yet to receive proper assistance from the Government after Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo visited the area and promised that her collapsed home would be rebuilt. However, when Demerara Waves Online visted what remains of the woman’s two bedroom wooden home, 58-year-old ...

A motorcyclist Sunday afternoon sustained serious head injuries after she was struck down by a car driven by a uniformed policeman who was driving under the influence of alcohol. The injured woman has been identified as 44-year old Gem Simone Hall of Castello Housing Scheme, Georgetown. A Guyana Police Force officer told Demerara Waves Online News that Constable, Nigel Griffith, ...

Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman tied the knot to Teresa Gaime on Saturday in Grenada. Gaime, the holder of two Masters Degrees, recently demitted office as his Technical Assistant at the Ministry of Natural Resources. She currently heads the consulting firm, Dochas Consulting. Gaime-Trotman is a former Deputy Director of Child Services at the Child Care and Protection Agency.

A 55-year old driver of a minibus of Tabatinga, Lethem, was early Sunday morning arrested in connection with the discovery of 24.9 kilogrammes of marijuana and 200 grammes of cocaine in the vehicle, police said. The Guyana Police Force said the bus was transporting passengers to Lethem. Police said they received information and stopped and searched the bus at Mabura ...

A woman was shot accidentally during a shootout between two men at Agricola, East Bank Demerara Saturday night. Investigators followed a trail of blood to a house but no one was there. They saw more blood on clothing, police sources said. The Guyana Police Force said the two men, who were involved in the exchange of gunfire, were yet to ...

University of Guyana (UG) executive staff members will have to await the appointment of a Council before they are paid salary increases, but academic and non-academic staff can receive their six to eight percent salary hike by October 9. UG Registrar, Dr. Nigel Gravesande told Demerara Waves Online News that the executive staff members would not be paid until the ...

Guyanese in storm-ravaged Dutch St. Maarten, who would like to return home, would have to await the resolution of several issues, but all residents there need not worry to much about relief because The Netherlands is sending at least six months of supplies, officials said Saturday. Guyana’s Honorary Consul to St. Maarten, Cleavland Beresford told Demerara Waves Online News that ...

A man,who was wanted in connection with several crimes including the recent shooting of a Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), was shot dead early Saturday morning. Police said the body of Colin Daley also known as  ‘Floggy and Frog Eye’ 24 years, unemployed of East La-Penitence, whose body was found in a pool of blood with a suspected gunshot wound to ...

Guyana for the first time has female ship captains who are responsible for all operational aspects of ships at sea or in port, as the country seeks to address an “acute shortage” of qualified persons to man vessels. They were among 16 Marine Cadets who graduated from a Maritime Administration (MARAD)-organised course that began in 2012. “It is the first ...