A thirteen-month-old toddler is dead and her preteen aunt is in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after they were shot yesterday by Marc Angoy, who was targeting his common-law wife who had dumped him after years of abuse.
A taxi driver is in critical condition after he allegedly fled a hit-and-run scene yesterday morning and smashed into a Lusignan shed while being chased by another motorist.
A One Mile, Linden resident early yesterday morning shot and killed his fiancée before turning the gun on himself at her Pike Street, Kitty home.
A two-storey wooden building located at East Street, Cummingsburg was yesterday afternoon gutted by a fire of unknown origin leaving four persons homeless and millions of dollars in losses.
The Ministry of Public Health has launched an investigation into the country’s latest maternal death—a Berbice River woman who succumbed yesterday morning, nine days after she delivered a stillborn girl via Caesarean-section (C-section) at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).
A four-year-old boy who was rescued over a year ago by the Child Care and Protection Agency (CC&PA) from a situation of neglect, is finally beginning to trust people again, Director Ann Greene said, while relating that the issue of child protection is an ongoing one and every day a different story is told.
A Corentyne mother is seeking answers from the Anamayah Memorial Hospital in Berbice, which says she delivered a baby girl via a C-section earlier this month after it told her that she had been carrying twins.
Police have arrested a man who they say admitted to battering an elderly woman and cutting a part of her tongue off during an attack at Stanleytown, West Bank Demerara, in late July.
A security guard of a mining camp located in Oku Backdam, Puruni was on Tuesday found face down in an abandoned mining pit with a wound to his throat, three days after he went missing.
A transgender sex worker was shot dead in the wee hours of yesterday morning at Quamina and Carmichael streets where he usually carried out his trade.
Interviews by Sharda Bacchus Photos by Arian Browne This week on ‘What the People Say’ we asked members of the public about the top three things they would like the government to do.
After completing years of training that started with a dream to become a doctor, local neurosurgeon Dr Amarnauth Dukhi has performed several high-risk operations since assuming his post at the Georgetown Public Hospital, including on a police constable who was shot in the head.
Heavy rains yesterday flooded Georgetown and many villages along the East Coast Demerara (ECD) catching residents by surprise as the drainage system struggled to cope.
Bandits broke and entered the house that was scorched and looted in Sophia on election night and carted off an estimated $2M in valuables in the wee hours of yesterday morning.
Three men were yesterday charged with the murder of Wismar businesswoman Shevon Gordon, who was shot during a robbery last month, and they accused police of shocking them with a Taser to force confessions out of them.
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