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The Joint Services have intensified efforts to apprehend a total of seventeen prisoners, following the escape last evening of an additional 13, from the open holding area at the Lusignan Prison, government’s Department of Public Information and the Guyana Police Force reported. The 13 fugitives, burrowed their way out of the holding area via a 5 ft deep tunnel. The ...

After 13 inmates escaped from the walled swampy area at the Lusignan Prison in what Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan said was an “embarrassing” situation for him, the remaining 86 were Monday afternoon being transferred to the brick prison, the lone remaining building at the Georgetown Prison complex. “The prisoners, as I speak, are being relocated. There is now need ...

Thirteen prisoners from the swamped area of the Lusignan Prison have escaped, police said. Head of the Criminal Investigations Department of the Guyana Police Force, Senior Superintendent Wendell Blanhum confirmed tbe escape. Another police source said the prisoners dug a hole and fled the highly walled area. Heavily armed police and soldiers had been deployed around that East Coast Demerara ...

Former Guyana Police Force spy chief, Retired Assistant Commissioner, James Mentore has been found dead in his home in New Jersey, United States, an official of an association of former Guyanese police said Sunday. He was 85 years old. Mentore’s daughter, who is in Guyana, on Sunday declined to comment about the passing of her father who was a former ...

Police Sunday morning said they were investigating a robbery under arms committed on a 58 year old businessman of North Success, East Coast Demerara. The incident occurred at about 3 O’clock Sunday morning at he and his wife’s house, during which process he was shot. Investigation revealed that the victim and his wife arrived home in their motor vehicle (Toyota ...

Even as the Guyana Bar Association signaled that a Court Order could be obtained to compel President David Granger to comply with a High Court ruling on the process of appointing a Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), he maintained that preference must be for a judicial person “While the President believes that the Constitution was crafted the way ...

A man, who escaped from custody while he was a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), was Sunday morning arrested inside a barrel at a house at Agricola, East Bank Demerara. “Wanted person Marlon Jeffery who escaped from the GPHC, was this (Sunday) morning recaptured at a house in Brutus Street, Agricola. Four persons, inclusive of two females ...

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) on Friday said it would rely on the outcome of a probe by the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) into the purchase of GYD$632 million worth of drugs, even as it said its own investigation revealed that the hospital’s management allegedly violated a decision to follow the legal process of going through the National Procurement ...

The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) on Friday commissioned its modern licensing and examination system for pilots, aircraft maintenance engineers (AME) and Air Traffic Controllers (ATC), the regulatory agency said in a statement. The new licensing system will see the introduction of a plastic card license being issued to applicants who are successful at their examinations administered by the Personnel ...

Ninety “really bad” prisoners are still in the walled swampy area at Lusignan, as more than GYD$500 million construction works continue at the Camp Street jail where high-tech scanners will be installed, authorities said. “There are still a number of prisoners in the swamped area. We felt that it was necessary because we do not want them to contaminate the ...