DUBAI, (Reuters) – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, a hardliner seen as a potential successor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in a helicopter crash in mountainous terrain near the Azerbaijan border, officials and state media said today.
Two ranks of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) are currently in custody at the Lethem Police Station, on allegations of kidnapping and extortion.
Local businessman Lennox Cush is seeking to develop the controversial Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara land that was once sold to Russian oligarch Oleg Derispaska’s company Rusal for $150 million and for which Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh and former National Industrial and Commercial and Investments Limited (NICIL) head Winston Brassington were charged.
People’s National Congress Reform’s (PNCR) executive member Amanza Walton-Desir has indicated her willingness to run for the leadership position during the party’s congress, slated for next month.
By Mia Anthony “I never thought that I would have been living the life my mom once lived, of being a domestic violence victim.”
Donovan Douglas called ‘Uncle Danny’, 81, of Stevedore Housing Scheme, North Ruimveldt was killed by a speeding car on the Eccles Public Road on Saturday evening.
Stabroek News spoke to members of the public in Guyhoc, Georgetown about the rising cost of living and how it is affecting them.
Two men were shot and a firearm seized during a police operation in Agricola on Saturday night.
Former Minister of Finance Winston Jordan has filed an action in which he is seeking damages in excess of $300,000,000 against the police and Director of publications (DPP), whom he said had maliciously charged and prosecuted him.
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man, who was found lifeless in his car yesterday in the vicinity of Heroes Highway, with blood flowing from his nostrils.
A 23-year-old Guyana Telephone and Telegraph company (GTT) technician was shot once during a robbery on Saturday night by two men armed with a handgun at Congress Drive, South Ruimveldt, Georgetown.
A 31-year-old mill operator of Lot 4642 Westminster, West Bank Demerara who was arrested on May 12th over the unlawful possession of firearm and ammunition without license was granted bail in the sum of $250,000 when he appeared at the Wales Magistrate’s Court.
(Reuters) – A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister crashed on Sunday as it was crossing mountain terrain in heavy fog, an Iranian official told Reuters, and rescuers were struggling to reach the site of the incident.
CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli planes and tanks pounded areas across the Gaza Strip, residents said, as White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday amid U.S.
Police are investigating an alleged armed robbery, committed on a chef at her Kitty home by motorcycle bandits.
…Daughter of Sauce Doubles owner taken by masked men (Trinidad Express) Twenty-seven-year-old Anisha Hosein, the daughter of the owner of Sauce Doubles, was kidnapped in El Dorado yesterday morning.
ATLANTA (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden urged Morehouse College graduates not to give up on democracy in a somber commencement address on Sunday, acknowledging their anger over the war in Gaza while warning about risk to American freedoms.
(Trinidad Express) In the space of 24 hours, five people were shot dead in separate incidents across Trinidad and Tobago.
Police, during an intelligence-led operation on Saturday, discovered 195.7 grammes of cannabis in a house at Best Village, West Coast Demerara.
Vaughndel Tobin, a 25-year-old of Charity Back Street, Essequibo Coast was sentenced to one year in prison last week, after he pleaded guilty to possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.
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