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 The latest Guyana news from Stabroek News including oil and gas coverage, crime, politics, culture, business and more.

Norton reshuffles shadow cabinet

With just days before the reading of the 2024 Budget, Leader of the Opposition, Aubrey Norton has reshuffled his shadow Cabinet sparking dissent from Jermaine Figueira of the PNCR.

Leroy Williams
Leroy Williams

Man fatally shot at Robb St hotel

Leroy Williams called ‘Buxton’, a 34-year-old unemployed man of D’Urban Backlands, Georgetown, was fatally shot at about 7.10 pm on Wednesday at a hotel located at the corner of Robb and Cummings streets, Georgetown.

Bharrat Jagdeo
Bharrat Jagdeo

PPP congress set for May

The long overdue PPP congress will be held in the first week of May, the Party’s Executive Committee  members have determined, General Secretary (GS) Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday announced.

Ofredis Duarte Campos

Man pleads guilty to killing Cuban butcher

Patrick Smith Felix is now awaiting sentencing for the part he played in the February 2020 killing of Cuban butcher—Ofredis Duarte Campos—who was at the time making his way to work at the Rossignol Butchery.

Over $3b of ganja plants destroyed at Gaetroy

A joint operation by ranks of the Guyana Police Force and the Guyana Defence Force (Coast Guard) has led to the discovery of ten acres with approximately six thousand Cannabis Sativa plants ranging from three inches to six feet in height, and about eight thousand  pounds of dry Cannabis Sativa in a house.

Totaram Boomattie

Man charged with Good Hope shooting 

A thirty-one-year-old field technician was yesterday charged with armed robbery. Totaram Boomattie aka Vick of Lot 174 Good Hope pleaded not guilty after the Administration of Justice Act was administered.

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