Cheryl Springer

A Brazilian woman was found murdered at Takutu Backdam, Region Eight on Saturday night and a man is in police custody assisting with investigations.

The newest regional airline, low fare REDjet, finally touched down at Piarco International Airport this afternoon following weeks of back and forth talks between the airline and the Trinidad authorities who had initially denied the airline permission to land in the twin island.

At about 02:00h today, police ranks responded to a report of burglary in a house at Narine Street, Better Hope North, East Coast Demerara.

The PNCR this afternoon walked out of the National Assembly as the Broadcast Bill was about to be debated with the party’s leader, Robert Corbin, saying that the process “contravened every level of consultation.”

Barbadian, Mark Anthony Ifill, who pleaded guilty earlier this year to the unlawful killing of his Guyanese wife Bibi Farzana Ifill in October last year, was on Wednesday sentenced to 14 years in prison.

The government today tabled the long-delayed broadcast legislation, which had been promised since the PPP/C took office in 1992.

The adopted son of Natalie Belmonte has been charged with her murder and authorities say a neighbour’s security video captured him getting rid of her body the night she disappeared from her Pembroke Pines home.

PEMBROKE PINES  (Sun Sentinel) – Police this evening arrested the adopted son of a slain real estate agent with first-degree murder in her death.

LONDON (Reuters) – Rupert Murdoch and his son James apologised to the parliament today over a hacking scandal that has engulfed News Corp.

(CNN) — A top Nation of Islam official said today that he plans to sue the police who arrested him two months ago in Guyana for unlawful arrest and defamation of character.

Roman Catholic priest Father Linus Wall has died in Scarborough, Canada.

Sacked Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) doctor Vishwamintra Persaud has been taken into police custody in West Berbice over allegations that he sexually molested a 13-year-old girl.

Businessman Malcolm Panday this afternoon revealed in a statement to the media that a close female relative was the mastermind of Tuesday’s brazen attack at his Bel Air house during which millions of dollars were stolen.

Police in E&F Division are on the hunt for three men who inflicted a severe beating on a miner they had accused of stealing a missing grass cutter.

A fire this afternoon destroyed the top storey of a Cummings Street, Albertown house.

A 44-year-old man was killed on the Corentyne Highway last night by a hit and run driver.

The lifeless body of a physically challenged Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara man was today pulled from his septic tank, hours after he was discovered to be missing from his home where several pieces of furniture had been set afire.

A four-year-old girl fell into a well at Woweta Village, Region Nine and drowned on Sunday afternoon shortly after she slipped away from her brother who was left by their mother to care for her and a one-year-old baby.

Police in Region Nine are investigating the murder of a former footballer turned contractor who was shot with a bow and arrow and killed some time early Sunday night at Karasabai Village.

An East Coast woman died this afternoon after a police vehicle reportedly slammed into her following a near collision.