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New York Police on Wednesday held back several Guyanese anti-government protesters as President Irfaan Ali was exiting a restaurant on Church Avenue, Brooklyn, where he attended a breakfast meeting. The protesters booed Dr Ali and called him a “racist” while he was hustled by security into a waiting car. The estimated 50 mostly Afro-Guyanese persons, armed with placards, also chanted ...

NEW YORK — Multiple people were shot at New York City’s West Indian American Day Parade in Brooklyn on Monday, police said. Five people were wounded when a gunman in Crown Heights “fired his weapon numerous times into a crowd,” NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell said, according to a CBS report. Two of the shooting victims were in critical condition. The others ...

A man, who allegedly struck down and killed a Jamaican man in December 2019 in Queens, New York, was caught at a horse race meet in Guyana and taken back to the United States (US) where he was refused bail on Friday, officials and news reports said. Head of the Guyana Police Force’s Criminal Investigations Department, Assistant Commissioner Wendell Blanhum ...

New York-based Guyanese, Rickford Burke, who is wanted in Guyana for a series of offences, has been served with a Guyana Police Force summons to attend court in March, 2024. Mr Burke, a known activist against the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC), earlier this week claimed that armed men were seen nearby his residence in New York. He said that ...

The man accused of stabbing five Orthodox Jews in Monsey, New York is of Guyanese parentage, according to acting director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli. Grafton Thomas was arraigned on five counts of obstructing the free exercise of religious beliefs by attempting to kill with a dangerous weapon and causing injuries. The New York Times said ...

Story Reproduced from New York Post  by Larry Celona and Ben Feuerherd Police are investigating whether the killing of a Brooklyn man — who told cops “f—k you, son!” as he lay dying — is connected to a shooting last week at a house party, law enforcement sources told The Post. Investigators believe Arsenio Gravesande — who was shot and killed ...

United States Federal authorities arrested a former Minister of Health of Guyana, Noel Blackman who they suspect illegally prescribed vast amounts of oxycodone — 365,000 pills in 2015 — in a drug-dealing enterprise spanning three states. Blackman was recently appointed to chair the Board of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). The New York Newsday reported that Federal authorities arrested the ...

A Guyanese man is a among members of a New York-based identification-theft ring that stole more than US$700,000 from banks by impersonating real account holders and making fraudulent withdrawals in 10 states, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said Thursday. Prosecutors said the group flew “soldiers” to different locales, where they entered banks, including Chase, Wells Fargo and Capital One branches, and ...

Reproduced from New York Daily News BY VICTORIA BEKIEMPIS A pill-pushing physician who used bogus Bronx clinics to run a massive oxycodone ring will spend 12 years in prison, a federal judge decided Monday. Dr. Kevin Lowe was convicted in May for operating a chain of Astramed clinics that, for three years, wrote around 35,000 fraudulent prescriptions for some 5.5 ...