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The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Field Tactical Exercise (FTX), HOMEGUARD began today, with the final contingent of troops moving into the Exercise Area located in the jungles and savannahs of Ituni and Tacama (Regions 10 and 6), a release from the GDF said today.
Following months of controversy, the Ministry of Communities today announced that Regional Executive Officer of Region 6 Dr Veerasammy Ramayya has resigned.
A 13-year-old boy was beaten and chopped to death during an argument on Sunday evening and the police have since arrested three persons for questioning.
Deputy Deeds Registrar Zanna Frank has moved to the High Court to fight directions given by Attorney-General (AG) Basil Williams that have prevented her from performing her duties, while he claimed yesterday that she did not meet the criteria for the position and was being used as a pawn.
Two armed bandits terrorized and robbed an elderly couple at their Nouvelle Flanders (Crane), West Coast Demerara home and business place on Sunday.
The Linden Town Council is asking Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan to remove the Town Clerk Janella Bowen “forthwith,” while accusing her of malicious attempts to stymie the development of the municipality and bring the council into disrepute.
A Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara shop owner dodged a bullet to the head when he was ambushed at his home by two bandits yesterday morning.
President David Granger yesterday stood by his government’s decision to move the Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology saying that it was not one that was “whimsical” but one that was administratively important and maintaining that all efforts would be taken to ensure that the collections are not damaged during the move to a location that will be brought to international standards.
Former minister of culture Dr Frank Anthony is appealing to government to save the Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology as it holds invaluable artifacts of not only this country but South America’s ancient history and peoples.
After the invitation for bids for the rehabilitation of the pumps at Trafalgar, West Coast Berbice was cancelled, several prospective bidders fear that the contract has been sole sourced since works are already ongoing.
A young woman who was pardoned under President David Granger’s amnesty and a former resident of the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) both of whom are into poultry rearing, along with a young man who has started a honey business, are just three of 100 persons who have benefited under the Government’s Sustain-able Livelihood and Entrepreneur Development (SLED) Initiative.
Two men have been arrested following a chopping spree in Angoy’s Avenue on Sunday afternoon that left one man fighting for his life, while two others had a hand and an ear severed.
A member of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) is currently a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) nursing a single gunshot wound to his right abdomen, after being shot last Saturday in South Ruimveldt Gardens.
Police are now looking for a man who torched the De Kinderen, West Coast Demerara home of two of his sisters yesterday.
An American woman, who is wanted in the United States, was yesterday sentenced to 18 months in a local jail for forging a passport and trying to use it to bypass immigration officials.
Jamaican national Easton Stapleton, who attempted to mail cocaine hidden in deodorant and markers, was yesterday sentenced to three years in jail and fined $1.4 million for the crime.
The Essequibo toddlers, who were suffering from the mystery illness that claimed the life of their six-year-old sister, have been discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).
The trial of Linden driver Ron Cole, who is charged with causing the death of traffic officer Nakosi ‘Kelvin’ La Fleur, who was struck down while on duty, continued yesterday with testimony from two more witnesses.
A Laing Avenue man, who was charged with stealing over $500,000 in jewellery in two armed robberies, was yesterday freed.
A Houston man was yesterday sentenced to 18 months in prison for breaking into a woman’s home because she gossiped about him.
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