Cheryl Springer

A multinational operation involving maritime assets from several countries, including the US, aimed at preserving the “legitimate activities of South American countries bordering the Atlantic Ocean” has seen increased security presence on the coasts of Guyana and Suriname, the US Embassy in Georgetown has announced.

Twenty-one-year-old Marlon Roberts was this morning remanded to prison by Magistrate Nyesha Hatmin at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate court after he was charged with the murder of his brother which occurred at their Dem Asmtel home last Sunday night.

Two men were this afternoon charged with the murder of Chateau Margot, East Coast Demerara businessman Dennis Ramah.

A 33-year-old North Enmore man was allegedly stabbed to death this morning by his brother following an argument over a lost cell phone.

Two men who allegedly attempted to rob a woman in front of Scotia Bank, Strand, New Amsterdam were arrested this morning by public-spirited citizens and handed it over to a police.

Guyanese neurosurgeon Dr Ivor Crandon is expected to arrive in Guyana tonight on a flight chartered by the government to treat PNCR-1G MP Winston Murray.

Following a meeting this afternoon between the Ministry of Education and the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) the ministry has withdrawn letters of sanction it sent to three teachers of Queen’s College following an investigation into the school’s handling of the case of murdered teenager Neesa Gopaul.

Two children and an adult have been confirmed drowned after a boat capsized in Linden this afternoon.

A two-year-old child of El Dorado Village, West Coast Berbice died this morning after a woman who was supposed to drop him off at his playschool forgot and locked him in her car for almost three hours.

(Barbados Nation) The vote to return Owen Arthur as leader of the Barbados Labour Party was a unanimous one.

All three of the boxers who left Guyana to participate in the recent Commonwealth Games held in India have absconded in the US on their return trip to Guyana.

Hours after Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang called on the police to show cause why several detained men who were reportedly being questioning about murders should not be released, police released six of them on $100,000 station bail each.

At 6 pm today, police released businessman Barry Dataram on his own recognizance after holding him overnight.

Royston Penniston, for whom police had issued a wanted bulletin, has turned himself in to the police, this newspaper has learned.

A 44-year-old Guyanese who worked as a security guard in Manhattan was stabbed to death early Sunday morning behind a Brooklyn gas station as he walked home from a party.

Armed gunmen went on a rampage in the capital early this morning, attacking two police stations and setting fire to the High Court building and a public school.

Given all that is known about temperate climes, one would assume that achieving energy efficiency in homes in a country like Denmark might be difficult.

Drug smuggler Shaheed Roger Khan was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment on charges of drug smuggling, witness tampering and gun possession in Vermont at 3 pm today at the US Eastern District Court in Brooklyn.

The Ministry of Health on Brickdam was completely destroyed by a fire of unknown origin in the wee hours of this morning.