The body of second-year University of Guyana (UG) student Harris Anthony Persaud, who had been missing for two days, was yesterday afternoon discovered at the foreshore at Garden of Eden, East Bank Demerara.
A handyman died on Thursday evening, shortly after he was struck down on the Triumph Railway Embankment, East Coast Demerara (ECD) by a speeding driver who reportedly drove himself to the police station.
The Caribbean American Domestic Violence Awareness (CADVA) group is currently working with eight families which consist of surviving children of domestic homicide parents with the hope of providing needed assistance.
A mason is now dead and another injured after they fell yesterday from a scaffold on the four-storey building where they were both working at Holmes and Quamina streets, South Cummingsburg, Georgetown.
A female security guard was yesterday morning discovered dead in her Crane, West Coast Demerara (WCD) apartment with several stab wounds and her ex-partner has been taken into custody.
A 16-year-old waitress is currently hospitalised at a private city hospital after she was shot to the chin late Friday evening by a lone gunman, who posed as a customer and attempted to rob the Chinese restaurant where she works.
A Mahaicony septuagenarian is now dead after being battered to death and police say her son, at whose hands she reportedly suffered years of abuse, has confessed to the crime.
An elderly woman was yesterday morning discovered dead in her home at Triumph, East Coast Demerara, just hours after alerting family that bandits were trying to get into her home.
A Smyth Street man was shot dead, execution-style, as he was about to enter his premises during the wee hours of the morning yesterday and the police have since arrested two men for questioning.
A policeman was stabbed to death yesterday afternoon and two others were injured while they were in the process of arresting a man who was wanted in connection with a rape allegation.
A Linden man yesterday stabbed his common-law wife to death and then turned the weapon on himself and slit his own throat.
It is almost certain that the decomposed body found on Friday afternoon at Berbice is that of missing British teen Dominic Bernard, after his god brother and another man who were captured by police confessed to killing him.
Minister of Public Health Dr George Norton yesterday visited the Leonora Cottage Hospital to discuss the remodeling required for the maternity ward so it can be functional again.
A head-on collision last night on Carifesta Avenue claimed the lives of three persons including a Guyana Defence Force (GDF) sergeant and his wife.
Last Christmas, Natasha Dash, a single mother of five, and her family were in dire straits, but having received the keys to a newly renovated house from members of the Stevedore Housing Scheme community yesterday, they are guaranteed a happier season this year.
The family of a 35-year-old woman, who delivered a stillborn baby at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) on Wednesday afternoon, blames negligence by medical personnel and is calling for a thorough investigation to be launched.
Two women now remain at the ramshackle Chase’s Indigent Home in Robb Street and they are both hoping that they will be out of there before Christmas.
The couple found dead at the Kingston seawall on Monday have been identified as teenagers Kavita Ackloo and Ramesh Beharry, whose families were yesterday at a loss as to why they apparently took their own lives.
A 28-year-old mother of five was beaten to death on Friday allegedly by her partner of six years.
A young farmer was yesterday afternoon discovered dead at his Good Hope, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home with injuries to his head and the police are treating the case as a suspected murder.
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