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A gold miner of Imbaimadai Landing (Region Seven-Cuyuni Mazaruni) was Tuesday night nursing second degree burns in the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was doused with High Wine and set alight during an argument with another miner, police said Tuesday. Police said they regarded the incident as an attempt to murder 44-year-old James “Wormie” Thomas. The prime suspect has since ...

Guyanese police on Sunday said they were looking for a Venezuelan man who allegedly attempted to murder a Guyanese miner by burning him severely at a mining camp in Wenamu Backdam, Cuyuni River. The badly burnt man, whose condition was listed as stable, was identified as 32-year-old Valon Evans of the Essequibo Coast. He overnighted at the Venezuelan man’s camp, ...

Three children, who were left at home by their parents, were rescued from a burning house in Mahdia by a neighbour who was burnt during the heroic act, police sources said. The fire destroyed the two-apartment, one-story wooden house at Dandro Hill, Mahdia, at about 7:45 pm. Police said 42-year-old Seon Garraway was admitted to the Mahdia Hospital where he ...