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Two men have been arrested in connection with an armed robbery committed on a man and his wife at West Coast Demerara, police said. Excavator operator, 24-year old  Hanson Forde and his 40-year old mother, Dawn Martin, of Crane Housing Scheme, West Coast Demerara told police that at about 8:20 Tuesday night four men, including two armed with handguns, invaded ...

Demerara Waves Report (C) 2017 ExxonMobil will eventually scale back hiring exploration support from Trinidad-based companies and will instead turn to a shore-base operation in Guyana for production operations, even as it eyes exploring two other potential oil reservoirs, Country Manager, Jeff Simon announced. He said the company was evaluating its latest oil find at Payara, and considering exploration at two other locations- ...

Banks DIH Limited’s High Court action to claim GYD$28.4 billion in purported mistakenly paid consumption taxes and interest was Wednesday knocked down by Attorney General, Basil Williams on the grounds that time has long passed for the company to take action against the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA). Stressing that he was improperly named as a defendant by the company because ...

Led by the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU), a sizeable number of teachers Tuesday evening marched on the Main Street residences of President David Granger, and Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo, who now functions as President since Mr Granger is out the country. Tackling the impact of parking meters which take effect from Tuesday (January 24, 2017), GTU President Mark Lyte called it ...

City Magistrate Renita Singh today sentenced 41-year-old truck driver Greg Stewart to three years imprisonment for causing the death of 19-year-old Dustin Crawford in July 2015. The July 2015 hit-and-run occurred along the Flour Mill Public Road on the East Bank of Demerara. Stewart was also found guilty of failing to stop at the time of the accident, and also ...

A homeless man, Mark Angus, was today remanded to prison by city magistrate Leron Daly when he answered to the charge of breaking and entering a Bourda Market stall, and stealing some $863,000 in groceries. The charge read against the homeless man was that between January 15 and January 16, 2016, he broke and entered the stall of Nadia Persaud, ...

Deon Griffith of North East La Penitence today came before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan to answer to a Charge that on July 3rd last year at Kitty Railway, he stole some $16M in aeroplane parts from Trisha Persaud. Griffith, 40 years, made a passionate plea to be granted bail in the court, saying he is the breadwinner for his family. ...

62 year old Dennis Jones today came before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan where he was remanded until February 14 on kne charge of illegal possession of 10 kg of cocaine, and another charge of forging a national ID card. Jones, of South Ruimveldt Park, also answered for the charge that between. September 1 to September 30 last year, he forged ...

Anti-narcotics police at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri at 5:30 Tuesday morning arrested a female outgoing passenger who was on a flight to Toronto, Canada.   She was arrested after four parcels of what is suspected to be cocaine was found in her suitcase. “The substance was weighed and amounted to 4.178 kilograms, she is currently in custody assisting with ...

Georgetown’s City by-laws governing the operation of parking meters have been approved by Local Government Minister, Ronald Bulkan, clearing the way for the commencement of paid parking. “The system will become operational,” he said when asked whether metered parking could begin on Tuesday, one day later than scheduled. Spokesman for Smart City Solutions, Kit Nascimento has said the parking meter ...