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Toshao’s killer to be charged after post mortem

The man, who confessed to the stabbing death of a Toshao (Amerindian village captain) in a hotel room, would be charged after a post mortem is conducted on the deceased man’s body, police said. That autopsy is scheduled to be conducted by a Government pathologist on Friday. Twenty-four-year-old Noah Beaton of Bent Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown surrendered to police on Tuesday, ...

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Amerindian villages get carbon credit ‘top-up’ although earnings drop

President Irfaan Ali on Monday announced that more carbon credit earnings would be allocated to Indigenous Amerindian communities this year although the actual revenue has dropped compared to 2023. While Guyana this year earned US$87.5 million from the American oil company, Hess Corporation, for the purchase of carbon credits, he said Amerindian communities would not take less based on the ...

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