The post-mortem results for Sadesh Appadu, 33, of Kilcoy, Chesney, Coren-tyne, Berbice, who was pronounced dead on December 15 at the Port Mourant Hospital after being on the run from the police following the murder of his wife, showed that he had ingested a poison, the police revealed yesterday
The examination was conducted by government pathologist Dr Vivekanand Bridgemohan on Monday at the Port Mourant Hospital mortuary and gave the cause of death as bilateral pulmonary fibrosis and suspected ingestion of an organophosphate.
Decorcy Hatton, a 25-year-old taxi driver of Company Road, Buxton, ECD, was arrested on 2023-10-10 by a rank from Cove and John Police Station and charged yesterday with the offence of ‘Rape of a Child under 16 years.
A Golden Fleece, West Coast Berbice man is now dead after he was stabbed yesterday afternoon while playing dominoes at a shop in Paradise, West Coast Berbice.
Nine days after journalist, Travis Chase, escaped what was described as an attempt on his life and six days after a ballistic test was done on his firearm after the Guyana Police Force stated that the shell case markings from the bullets supposedly intended for him had “significant similarities” with test bullets from his gun, the Force has been silent on the results of that test.
Joseph Hamilton, Minister of Labour on Sunday attended the launch of the latest and most advanced Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group’s (XCMG) Heavy-Duty machines, made possible by a collaboration between Jumbo Jet Auto Sale and XCMG.
The increase in salaries to government workers and increases in pensions to old-age persons which represents an additional $13 billion in disposable income injected into Guyana’s economy is only part of Government’s approach to improving the lives of Guyanese.
Ray Yokum, a 41-year-old unemployed man of Lot 58 Lime Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown, was arrested on 2023-12-17 by a rank from the Lusignan Police Outpost and charged yesterday with the following offences:
(1) Possession of Narcotics for the Purpose of Trafficking, contrary to Section 5(1)(a)(i) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act, Chapter 10:10 (40 grams of cocaine).
Forty-two-year-old Terrence Richards appear-ed before Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus at the Georgetown Magis-trate’s Court yesterday where he was charged with attempted murder.
Rayad Mohamed, a 22-year-old fisherman from Lancaster/ Unity, East Coast Demerara was arrested on 2023-11-14 by a rank from Mahaica Police Station and charged yesterday with ‘Robbery Under Arms’.
Police are investigating the murder of Dwayne Byass called ‘Eddo’, a 27-year-old self-employed of Golden Fleece, West Coast Berbice, which occurred at about 12:50 hrs today at Middle Street Paradise, WCB.
Police are investigating a fatal accident which occurred at about 10.05 last night on the public road at Montrose, East Coast Demerara, which resulted in the death of Daniel Mc Calmon, a 29-year-old construction worker from West La Penitence, Georgetown.
Attorney at law and commentator Christopher Ram has said that Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC should be concerned that Guyana has ceded legislative sovereignty to ExxonMobil.
The Guyana Fire Service (GFS) has now been boosted with 74 new fire-fighters after they completed an 11-week training course at the Leonora Training Centre, West Coast Demerara.
The Linden Town Council yesterday brought its protest to the city over what it charged were surreptitious plans by the Local Government Commission (LGC) to appoint a PPP/C activist as Town Clerk.
One month after losing an employee in a horrific truck accident, Zijin Mining Group, the operator of AGM Gold Mines is again in the spotlight after a truck working for it toppled down a hill and crushed the driver to death.
Two men are currently on trial for the murder of Rose Hall Town grocer, Lomenzo Johnny who in February 2020 was found with his feet tied together along with what appeared to be strangulation marks on his neck and a puncture wound above his left eye.
A nearly $100m vessel for the fisheries department of the Ministry of Agriculture has not been in use since 2020 as the personnel needed are not available.
