By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Saturday, October 31, 2009 | 34 Comments
-murders down
Though elated that murders are down, the police say there is a serious threat that more guns and cocaine may be smuggled into Guyana …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Tuesday, October 27, 2009 | 67 Comments
Over 30 years ago a mother made a painful decision and left her nine children in a one-room shack in Kitty in search of a …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Saturday, October 17, 2009 | 174 Comments
US Federal Judge Dora Irizarry yesterday afternoon said that while no sentence imposed on confessed drug trafficker Shaheed Roger Khan would make right whatever atrocities …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Saturday, October 17, 2009 | 1 Comment
- puts off retiring as ‘big break’ looms
Many years ago as a young man he was a dancer with the Guyana Police Force, and today …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Saturday, October 10, 2009 | 0 Comments
Seventeen-year-old Jenelle Babb was crowned Miss Guyana Talented Teen last Saturday night and she describes the win as a “stepping stone to bigger and better …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Saturday, September 19, 2009 | 2 Comments
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Just under two months ago 26-year-old Jory Douglas might have been one of the least known local artistes but his recent social commentary …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Friday, September 18, 2009 | 11 Comments
As Victorine Ifill surveyed the ruins that she called home only a few days ago, she vowed not to give up.
I will build again: Victorine …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Monday, September 14, 2009 | 5 Comments
-residents have been hit by water pollution
Police have arrested two men in connection with the recent shooting on the Barama River that left a miner …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Monday, September 7, 2009 | 46 Comments
The decomposed body of a man with bullet wounds, believed to be the one the police were pursuing last Wednesday, was yesterday morning found by …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Monday, August 31, 2009 | 31 Comments
A 17-year-old girl was yesterday morning stabbed several times by her ex-boyfriend and is now in a critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Friday, August 28, 2009 | 81 Comments
Twenty-one-year-old Rorhema Dookie, who was kidnapped on Wednesday night, was last evening reunited with her family after she was pulled out of a house in …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Wednesday, August 26, 2009 | 21 Comments
-have video tape of green paint on broken boat
Relatives of the two men who died in the Essequibo River accident on August 11 which also …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Monday, August 24, 2009 | 43 Comments
A post-mortem examination on 24-year-old Dweive Kant Ramdass who was dumped in the Essequibo River on Thursday showed that he died of asphyxiation – consistent …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Friday, August 21, 2009 | 83 Comments
The conviction of flamboyant US attorney Robert Simels yesterday led to renewed calls by the opposition for an independent probe into the government’s alleged connection …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Monday, August 17, 2009 | 3 Comments
In another three months tests for the H1N1 (swine flu) virus will be done at the National Public Health Institute laboratory through a collaborative effort …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Monday, July 6, 2009 | 21 Comments
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It came as no big surprise when just before 11 pm on Saturday 19-year-old Jenel Cox was crowned Miss Guyana Universe 2009 at …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Thursday, July 2, 2009 | 16 Comments
–officials urge health ministry to act
Four deaths and several sick people have led to officials in Region One (Barima/Waini) calling for urgent assistance from the …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Monday, June 29, 2009 | 82 Comments
-outcome to be challenged
Amid chaotic scenes yesterday, Volda Lawrence was elected Chairman of the PNCR’s Georgetown District trouncing incumbent Aubrey Norton by 220 votes to …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Saturday, June 27, 2009 | 0 Comments
– PM inconclusive because of decomposition
`Is just mommy I had and now she gone…’
A post-mortem examination performed on the body of Shira Khan, which was …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Thursday, June 25, 2009 | 24 Comments
-signs point to murder
The body found at the back of the Cheddi Jagan Inter-national Airport, Timehri, on Tuesday has been identified as that of a …