Cheryl Springer

Every year, hundreds of Guyanese living in the Diaspora begin packing barrels and boxes to post ‘home’, some as early as June/July.

Balram Singh was this afternoon sentenced to 80 years in jail after a 12-member jury found him guilty of murdering taxi driver Bhomeshwar Sukhdeo.

Two former presidents have filed lawsuits for the non-payment of sums of money and other benefits caused by the passage of the Former Presidents (Benefits and Other facilities) Act, Attorney General Basil Williams today revealed to the media.

Allan Sim, the man alleged to have murdered Georgetown Public Hospital ambulance dispatcher, Melissa Skeete, appeared before a city court today where he was formally charged with the crime.

Two bodies were this afternoon found lodged between the rocks on the seawalls behind the Pegasus Hotel.

Three Guyanese-American siblings, Ima, Asha and Caleb Christian, who created the FIVE-O mobile app that allows citizens to rate, review and rank police officers, woke up to the uplifting news that their creation was selected as one of the three finalists for the 2015 Innovating Justice Challenge in The Hague, Netherlands.

Newly accredited US ambassador Perry Holloway today said that the Guyana/Venezuela boundary as settled by the 1899 arbitral award should be respected, even as he stressed that peaceful means consistent with international law should be used to settle the ongoing controversy.

Four police officers were charged today in connection with the $6 million cocaine bribe allegation and three were remanded to prison while one was released on $250,000 bail.

Oswald Junior Yaw, who allegedly killed Herstelling block maker Nathan Andrew Persaud based on a verbal contract with Persaud’s wife Beverly, was today remanded to prison after appearing before a city court to answer to a murder charge.

Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson has confirmed that there was an industrial death at the site of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport expansion project at Timehri earlier this afternoon.

(Reuters) – When the contestants for the 2016 Miss America pageant took the stage in Atlantic City on Sunday night, they were greeted by two blasts from the past — and a new social media feature.

A student of the Uitvlugt Secondary School is nursing injuries at the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) after she was struck down by a police car PRR 2032 on the pedestrian crossing around 7:50 this morning.

The body of a 77-year-old woman was discovered around 9.30 am today in a house at Montrose, East Coast Demerara in a pool of blood.

Minister of Finance Winston Jordan today announced in the National Assembly that the budget estimates would be presented on August 10th.

Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan this afternoon told the National Assembly that he has been advised that the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) will be ready to hold the long awaited local government elections by early December.

Self-confessed death squad member Shawn Hinds has turned himself over to the police but the police tonight said he is not cooperating.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bernard Kerik, a former New York City police commissioner and cabinet nominee who later went to prison for tax evasion and lying to White House officials, was sued on Wednesday by a woman who claimed she helped him write his recent memoir and was not credited or paid for it.