Zoisa Fraser

It was a clash of beautiful, intelligent and mature women at the National Cultural Centre on Saturday last, but in the end, Quacy McGowan emerged victorious with the 2008 Ms Renaissance crown and title.

Woman slain by gunman A stop on the Agricola public road to fix a problem yesterday morning turned tragic when a gunman fatally shot a 27-year-old woman after she refused to hand over a bag containing more than $100,000.

Wounded attacker held A policeman was shot in his foot yesterday at his Wortmanville home during a scuffle with two fake GPL meter readers one of whom also took a bullet in the melee and was later arrested.

Residents of three North West District (NWD) villages that are being terrorized by a large gang believe that the men are being fed information since they are utilizing the many bush trails instead of the main access road where the patrol groups are.

– breaking into homes, molesting young girls – residents plead for army to assist A large gang of men, some of whom are armed with “bush” (homemade) guns, have been breaking into homes in the North West District (NWD) and molesting young girls over the last week, leaving villagers traumatized and afraid to sleep in their homes at night.

Relatives believe he was killed, call for probe A 47-year-old Stanleytown, West Bank Demerara man was discovered dead in the Brickdam Police Station lock-ups early yesterday morning with marks of violence about his body and his relatives believe that he sustained fatal injuries at the hands of the police.

Taxi driver was badly beaten A carjacker who yesterday tried to evade the police lost control of the vehicle while speeding around a turn on Sheriff Street and crashed into a fence.

Come November 1, 13 mature, professional women will converge on the National Cultural Centre stage to compete in the fourth Ms Renaissance pageant.

With less than one month to go for the Ms Renaissance pageant, Coordinator Negla Brandis says preparations are well ahead with contestants “fine tuning” their presentations.

Shot Guyanese owner bemoans sloth in probe The Guyanese businesswoman, who survived an armed robbery on her restaurant and bar in Barbados in July, says the police are dragging their feet and breaking promises that they will do everything in their power to bring the perpetrator to justice.

Two days after he fell off a vessel on its way to a fishing spot in the Atlantic Ocean, the partly decomposed body of 42-year-old Kenneth Melville was found just off the Kitty Foreshore around 6 am yesterday.

– 16-year-old in custody Disapproval of a boyfriend/ girlfriend relationship ended in murder late Tuesday night at Paradise, East Coast Demerara, when a 20-year-old man was stabbed to death.

A policeman in a fit of rage yesterday shot his lover twice in the yard at the back of her La Penitence home and then turned his service revolver on himself.

After spending almost a week at the New Amsterdam Hospital, a 22-year-old convicted prisoner removed his foot cuffs and successfully escaped from the institution early yesterday morning.

Bandits car fired at, driver may have been hit A Canadian boat captain is lucky to be alive after he was yesterday beaten, stabbed and shot by two men on Holmes Street who subsequently relieved him of a bag containing valuables.

Models, designers, lights cameras and action were the order of things last week Friday night when the stage was set for the second Guyana Fashion Weekend (GFW) billed for October 1 to 5.

The mentally ill patient who reportedly started Wednesday’s fire in the Georgetown Public Hospital’s Male Psychiatric Ward is still in police custody and efforts are being made to have him committed to the mental hospital in Berbice.

Fire believed set by mentally ill patientThe Observation Ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) and other facilities were yesterday morning consumed by a fire allegedly set by a mentally ill patient. 

A convicted prisoner who along with other inmates were playing steel pan at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri on Saturday managed to escape and was only discovered missing when prison officers were preparing to take the group back to the Camp Street prison that night.

Despite failing to kick down the door to the house, the bandits who attacked the house of Shalem Baksh in Lusignan persisted and knocked out wooden bars from a window before smashing down his bedroom door and dragging him from under his bed where he had been hiding with his wife and daughter.