Boatman gets 20 years for raping passenger
Forty-one-year-old boatman, Vickram Persaud was yesterday sentenced to 20 years behind bars for the 2009 rape of a young woman whom he took to a location other than where she had paid him to be taken.
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Forty-one-year-old boatman, Vickram Persaud was yesterday sentenced to 20 years behind bars for the 2009 rape of a young woman whom he took to a location other than where she had paid him to be taken.
Kenrick Cozier, a second suspect in the killing of 10-year-old Anthony Cort during a robbery in Sophia in March, was yesterday remanded to prison on a murder charge.
The Guyana Police Force (GPF) in a statement yesterday is refuting what it says are allegations in the press and social media that there is a ban on Haitian nationals entering Guyana.
Retired Assistant Commissioners of Police, Paul Slowe and Clinton Conway have been asked by Prime Minister Mark Phillips to show cause why the charges of fraud leveled against them should not result in their removal from the Police Service Commission (PSC).
A Cuban woman was on Tuesday charged with manslaughter after she allegedly stabbed a countryman to death during a scuffle.
On the eve of Guyana’s 55th Independence Anni-versary President Irfaan Ali has reiterated his government’s plans for a new city further inland.
The Ministry of Education yesterday launched its Quiz Me Platform in the Smart Room of the National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD).
The homes of just over a hundred residents from Silvertown and Silver City, Linden have been flooded after torrential rainfall compounded by high tides yesterday morning, Regional Chairman Deron Adams told Stabroek News.
The Ministry of Agriculture yesterday hosted its inaugural Independence Seed and Seedling Distribution Drive in observance of Guyana’s 55th Independence Anniversary.
President Irfaan Ali has lashed out against the claim made by Georgetown Mayor, Ubraj Narine that he is starving the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) of resources.
A youth is now in custody after robbing a GR taxi service driver at First Street, Agricola, East Bank Demerara, on Monday night.
ExxonMobil will from today begin paying for the flaring of its estimated 15 million cubic feet (MMcf) per day of associated gases as it has applied for 36 days of flaring and the total accrued for the period under the revised Environmental Permit would be around US$1.3 million, says Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo.
As Guyana celebrates 55 years as an independent nation, the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) has sponsored the décor for the Ministry of Health’s Disability and Rehabilitation Service Centre at its Croal Street, Georgetown location.
Robbers left two businessmen and a security guard tied up after an early morning attack on Monday at a Friendship, East Bank Demerara supermarket.
A security guard was robbed by two men at the junction of Cooper Street and Punt Trench Dam, in Albouystown, Georgetown on Monday.
Seon Christie is wanted by the police in connection with the attempted murder of Shanaz Mohamed on 2021/05/02.
Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony on Friday said that he hopes that companies will continue “encouraging” their staff to get vaccinated as it will help Guyana exit the COVID-19 pandemic.
Vaccinations countrywide are increasing steadily according to Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony as he noted that 12 per cent of Guyana’s adult population is now fully inoculated.
The Ministry of Health this afternoon confirmed the deaths of seven more persons due to COVID-19, including a 17-year-old.
Sherwin Crandon, the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) prosecutor who was held in a recent sting after allegedly collecting a $300,000 bribe to dismiss a court case, was charged today.
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