A fire of unknown origin early yesterday morning destroyed the Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD) storage bond at Urquhart Street, South Cummingsburg, while also severely damaging the neighbouring Mings Products and Services Ltd boat building facility.
The fate of eight members of the Presidential Guard Ser-vice, who were arrested after a recent raid, will be decided by the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), which is currently studying the case file.
Kenneth Somerset became the hero to a family last Saturday, when he helped a little boy escape from the Caribbean Airlines plane that crash landed at the Cheddi International Airport, Timehri.
Brazilian businessman Rodrigo de Paula says that he was clueless that presidential guards were among the group of men hired to “conduct a peaceful operation” to remove a conveyor to prevent the illegal use of the Guyana Sandport Inc.
A gang of about 30 men, including presidential guards, early yesterday morning stormed into Guyana Sandport Inc.
When two brothers were heard arguing about murdered pensioner Sukhdai Ramkilaum about a month ago, it seemed this was the break the police so badly needed to solve the brutal crime that occurred three months ago.
A miner was on Monday tied to a tree at 14 Miles, Bartica and beaten to death by three men, who were also armed with guns, after he was accused of having knowledge about a missing brush cutter.
The body of Ravendra Persaud, 17, was yesterday morning found lying on the roadway at De Hoop Road, No.
The man who was arrested in relation to the fire that gutted his D’Urban Street home and a business place on Saturday was released on station bail on Monday.
Butcher Shawn Sooklall, who pleaded guilty to killing his girlfriend Tricia Welch in July 2006, was yesterday sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by Justice Roxane George.
The lifeless body of a physically-challenged Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara man was yesterday pulled from his septic tank, hours after he was discovered missing from his home where several pieces of furniture had been set afire.
Joyce Tang last saw her son six months ago when he left for the goldfields of the North West District.
Overlooking the Linden/Soesdyke Highway is an Amerindian settlement called Waiakabra. On the surface this community which comprises at least 30 households looks like a dream spot to live.
A 77-year-old New York-based Guyanese was yesterday shot dead at his East La Penitence property after he was confronted by two gunmen who were after the gold chain he was wearing.
One of the suspects in the smothering to death of remigrant Ishwar Mithu committed suicide before any credible information could be gathered from him while a second man is yet to be found.
The long-awaited modern forensic laboratory slated to be completed early next year signals a strong response to the complex nature of criminal activity today, Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee said at yesterday’s inking of the $449 million contract.
Security will be reviewed at post offices countrywide, following break-ins at several such facilities, including a $5.7M heist at the Beterverwagting Post Office on Tuesday.
An elderly man died on the spot yesterday when a Mayor and City Council tractor and trailer ran over his head on Water Street.
In a pre-dawn attack, gunmen yesterday stormed into the Trans Guyana Airways operations at Ogle Airport, where they killed a security guard before escaping with guns, ammunition and several bulletproof vests.
As the first anniversary of Claudine Bentham’s death approaches, it finds her family consumed by frustration over the failure to charge her killer.
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