Armed gang carts off cash, jewellery after brutal Black Bush home invasion
A gang of masked gunmen on Monday evening invaded a Mibicuri, Black Bush Polder home, where they beat the occupants and robbed them of about $2M in cash and jewellery.
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A gang of masked gunmen on Monday evening invaded a Mibicuri, Black Bush Polder home, where they beat the occupants and robbed them of about $2M in cash and jewellery.
Dawn Garraway, her face visibly swollen as a result of an attack by her husband who dealt her several lashes to her head with a piece of wood and caused her to lose consciousness, yesterday pleaded with a city magistrate to jail the man because of the blows she has been suffering at his hands.
Romo Andrews, who was charged with killing Andrew Thomas was freed yesterday after he was found not guilty by a jury on both charges of murder and manslaughter in the High Court yesterday.
A man was yesterday charged with threatening to kill his ex-wife, who said he told her he would make her death look like an accident.
Crime Chief Seelall Persaud says investigators were having some trouble speaking with the woman who has accused Robeson Benn Jr of assault but maintains that this would not be a deterrent to a thorough probe.
Miner and store-keeper Floyd Campbell, who was allegedly found with cocaine and marijuana at Aranka Landing, Cuyuni River, was yesterday remanded to prison on drug trafficking charges.
Local Government Minister Ganga Persaud yesterday told a news conference that the parliamentary review of the four reform bills is still not complete and he remained hopeful of concessions from the opposition on areas of contention.
A man was yesterday sentenced to a three-year jail sentence for possession of marijuana, which he claimed that he used to medicate himself for asthma.
Guyana-born Surinamese national Maxwell Anthony Gill, 35, was yesterday fined $60,000 or an alternative of 24 months imprisonment after pleading guilty to illegally entering Guyana and trying to illegally obtain a passport.
The Bernice Mansell Foundation, at Rahaman’s Park, on June 27, 2013 received a donation from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment’s ‘Pick it Up Guyana’ group partnered with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the United Nations Volunteer Programme on Saturday to campaign for environmental cleanliness at the minibus parks.
Marlon Hackett, 41, is recovering at the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) after suffering major head trauma when a vehicle struck him down on Sunday evening along the West Demerara Public Road.
A Brazilian miner was shot dead and another man wounded when they were attacked by gunmen around 8 this morning in the Barama area, some 100 km from Port Kaituma, North West District and a police team has since been dispatched to the area.
The coast guards accused of killing Bartica gold miner Dweive Kant Ramdass were this afternoon found guilty by the jury and subsequently sentenced to death by Justice Franklyn Holder at the High Court in Suddie, Essequibo.
Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment Robert Persaud on Monday advised Kuru Kururu residents to map out a strategy for the orderly development of the Soesdyke-Linden Highway community and warned against occupation of the reserves.
(Trinidad Express) A Trinidad and Tobago cargo vessel was shot at on Friday night and forced to leave Guyana after the captain allegedly refused to transport drugs into this country, Coast Guard Lieutenant Commander Kirk Jean-Baptiste said yesterday.
There have been 17 murders in the interior regions since the start of the year, according to Stabroek News’ records, and less than half have been solved.
A Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara (ECD) electrician died on Sunday night after a taxi driver attempted to dislodge him from the bonnet of his car by driving into a pile of sand, according to relatives but the police said the man was struck down as he walked along the Good Hope Railway Embankment road.
Two men fled Woodlands Hospital compound with over $1 million which they grabbed from a cashier at the Accounts Department yesterday morning.
A 17-year-old girl and her 18-year-old boyfriend died on Saturday in Queens, New York when the speeding car they were in crashed into a guardrail on the highway, the New York Daily News said.
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