A family member of a government politician, who was involved in a road accident that resulted in the death of a woman, on Tuesday remained hospitalised, police said. The woman, who died in the accident on La Bonne Intention (LBI) Railway Embankment Road, has been identified as Salima Heeralal. She was an occupant in a vehicle that was driven by ...
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1 killed, 2 injured in Mahaicony accident
A 28-year-old man was killed and two others injured in an early Saturday morning road accident when the driver lost control of the car on the Cottage, Mahaicony Public Road and slammed into a fence and a utility pole. The dead man has been identified as Collin Dowden of Lot 2 Belle Vue, West Coast Berbice. Those injured and transferred ...
Read More »Speeding minibus drags, kills elderly pedestrian then drives away
Police were Saturday searching for a minibus, with a driver, which allegedly struck down and killed a 62-year-old man in the vicinity of ‘Church of God Road’, Buxton, East Coast Demerara. Police said the minibus that was involved in the accident at about 11 o’clock Friday night was bearing licence number BAC 4129. Police said Adree Slowe was crossing the ...
Read More »Three porters pinned to death in Kuru Kururu accident
Three porters died on the Kuru Kuru, Soesdyke/Linden Highway late Wednesday night when the driver lost control of a lorry and it toppled several times, police said Thursday. Those, who perished, are Michael Edwards of Timehri Base Road, East Bank Demerara, Wilfred Phillips and Aloysius Squad both of Pomeroon River, Essequibo. The accident occurred at about 11:30 Wednesday night. The ...
Read More »Updated: Four killed in East Coast Demerara smash-up
Four persons were killed in a road accident involving a car and a lorry on the Montrose Public Road, East Coast Demerara, police said. Those dead are the driver of the car Chris Bradshaw, 35, of Queenstown, Georgetown, Lynden Pryce, 54, of South Vryheid’s Lust East Coast Demerara, an unidentified woman and an unidentified man each believed to be about ...
Read More »3 dead in East Coast Demerara accident -police
Three persons were late Wesnesday afternoon killed in an accident on the Le Ressouvenir Public Road, East Coast Demerara, police said. The names of the victims were not immediately available. Police say at about 5:55 p.m., the accident between a motor lorry and a car occurred on the roadway. If you have any more information or pictures about this accident ...
Read More »Police seek legal advice on Gary Best in Jude Bentley road accident
Seventeen days after a vehicle driven by former Chief-of-Staff of the Guyana Defence Force, Retired Rear Admiral Gary Best struck down and killed a cyclist, police on Tuesday submitted a file to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions for legal advice, a source disclosed. Relatives, friends and supporters of the dead cyclist, Jude Bentley, have been agitating for ...
Read More »Retired GDF Chief, Gary Best pulls out of APNU+AFC election campaigning
Former Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), Retired Rear Admiral Gary Best has pulled out of the 2020 election campaign appearances because he was recently involved in a fatal road accident. “As a result of the February 8, 2020 accident that I was involved in, and the subsequent loss of the life of Mr. Jude Bentley, I’m ...
Read More »OPINION: In the matter of Gary Best, the president has no choice, but to act
by GHK Lall One man is dead, and another stands before Guyana in a spot on which none would wish for even sworn enemies. From the media reports and official reports involving former Chief of Staff Gary Best, I detect that matters, as alleged, careened out of control, leading to the death of a young man. There is loss of ...
Read More »Former GDF Chief of Staff Best was intoxicated during deadly road accident -police
Former Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force, Retired Rear Admiral Gary Best was driving under the influence of alcohol at the time of a road accident that resulted in the death of national cyclist, Jude Bentley, early Saturday morning. Traffic Chief Linden Isles said Best underwent two breathalyser tests – once at the accident scene and again at ...
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