Bandits rob students in South R’veldt shop
Seven students from the South Ruimveldt Secondary School were held at gunpoint and robbed by two bicycle bandits yesterday.
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Seven students from the South Ruimveldt Secondary School were held at gunpoint and robbed by two bicycle bandits yesterday.
Thirteen persons were arrested following raids by lawmen in Georgetown and on the East Bank of Demerara yesterday.
Pump attendants at the Shell Gas Station at McDoom were robbed at gunpoint last evening by a lone gunman.
On November 04, 2017, Irving Street, Queenstown, Georgetown resident Ryhaan Shah was robbed of her Toyota Allion motorcar by three males as she was about to drive into her yard.
The Private Sector Commission on Wednesday lauded the UN referral of the border controversy with Venezuela to the International Court of Justice and it commended the government over this development.
-forum hears Citing the Philippines’ case against China, Ambassador Cedric Joseph last evening stated that Guyana can unilaterally present to the World Court its case on the border controversy in the absence of Venezuelan participation.
Saying that the Lindo Creek Commission of Inquiry (CoI) was unilaterally established, the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) on Wednesday warned that such an approach would scare off persons with vital information and could also result in its own non-participation.
The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) has announced the appointment of Albert Gordon, a Jamaican as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) with effect from yesterday.
A farmer, who police say reportedly walked into the path of a Route 42 bus along the Sarah Johanna Public Road, on the East Bank of Demerara, succumbed on Wednesday night, Persaud Hari, 61, of Sarah Johanna, was struck around 4.45pm by the minibus, BVV 852, which was proceeding north along the western carriageway at a moderate speed.
Former murder accused and the owner of D and D Pawn shop Andre Gomes, also known as ‘Zipper,’ who was wanted last year for questioning by the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU), was yesterday charged with the possession of 2.1 pounds of cocaine for trafficking.
More than 200 Wales cane cutters and supporters rallied outside of the Ministry of the Presidency yesterday to protest the non-payment of severance pay to workers by the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo).
The Region Six Regional Democratic Council (RDC) yesterday passed a motion to finance the transportation to school for the children of severed sugar workers.
Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan on Wednesday convened the first meeting of the National CariSECURE Task Force which is aimed at bolstering evidence-driven crime prevention.
A potential oil spill and the effects on the environment remained among the main concerns raised when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continued its ongoing public scoping meetings on the oil company’s Liza Phase 2 Development Project in Region Three last Friday.
Two brothers were yesterday released on $150,000 bail each by a city court after they denied stealing items from the Marriott Hotel bond.
The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) has launched an investigation into the circumstances that caused the death of Handel Payne, a young miner who met his demise after the wall of the Potaro pit he was working in collapsed on him.
The two persons who were held in connection with the death of Hemchand Dalchand, the 20-year-old man whose body was discovered on Sunday morning along the Oleander Gardens Public Road, have been released.
The Ministry of Natural Resources is assuring the small miners of the Rupununi that their concerns raised in a recent letter about the ongoing dispute with Romanex Guyana Exploration Ltd.
A Brazilian national, who was allegedly held with an unlicensed shotgun and ammunition in the Rupununi this week, yesterday accused members of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) of brutally assaulting him.
The man who opened fire on a group of domino players at Mahaica last Saturday night leaving two persons injured has since fled the jurisdiction.
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