Seventeen prisoners died and five others were injured after a fire was started during a protest at the Georgetown Prison yesterday morning, prompting the Public Security Minister to declare “a crisis” at the facility as government announced that an inquiry would be set up.
(The names of those who died or were injured in yesterday’s Camp Street prison blaze appear below with information on the charges that they faced.)
It was chaos and confusion at the Camp Street Prison yesterday as the terrified families of prisoners housed at the facility tried to find out if their loved ones were among those who had died or been injured in the fire which had razed a section of the facility.
Stressing the importance of the nation’s army reserve, President David Granger yesterday said that the re-established Guyana People’s Militia will be deployed to all ten regions in the country to strengthen territorial integrity and national security.
(Barbados Nation) Tony Cozier, the voice of Caribbean cricket, is suing president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), Whycliffe “Dave”Cameron for defamation.
Although an inquiry is to be done into self-confessed drug baron Barry Dataram’s allegations that the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) is aiding the local drug trade, Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan says that he does not believe the claims.
The trial of Prabhudyal Tarachand for the murder of his common-law wife, Devi Bhisundial, has been aborted after Justice Franklyn Holder determined that the jury could not deliver an impartial verdict.
Six candidates, including a sitting member of the city council, a pastor and an optometrist are going head-to-head in a fight for the Stabroek-Wortmanville-Werk-en-Rust seat at the March 18 local government elections.
Accused Ramsammy (only name) was yesterday cleared in the killing of his neighbour, Rabindranauth Rajkumar, after relatives of the deceased declined to offer evidence against him.
The opposition PPP/C on Wednesday once more accused Speaker of the National Assembly Dr.
A man is now dead after he was shot after allegedly robbing a police officer of a gold chain in the city yesterday.
Attorney Keshia Chase was yesterday charged with causing the death of a pedestrian by dangerous driving and released on $250,000 bail after pleading not guilty.
After a disruption that lasted nearly four weeks, residents of the Diamond and Kaneville, East Bank Demerara areas are once again receiving water through their taps.
The lawyer for US-based Guyanese businessman, Ed Ahmad is seeking a further delay in his sentencing to April 25.
The Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) has launched a search engine that enables voters to find their respective polling stations for the upcoming March 18 local government elections.
KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Jamaica’s new prime minister, Andrew Holness, was sworn in yesterday after a narrow general election win, vowing to increase growth and cut taxes in a reversal of the previous government’s austerity programme.
DETROIT, (Reuters) – Former U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney attacked 2016 Republican front-runner Donald Trump as “a fraud” yesterday and urged primary voters to keep the outspoken New York billionaire from getting the nomination, paving the way for possible horse trading at a party convention in July.
The wife of Jermaine Jerrick, who was accidently shot and killed by his alleged accomplice during a robbery last week, has been released on station bail.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff lashed out yesterday at the leaking of testimony to the media after a newsweekly published allegations linking her and her mentor, ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, to a giant graft probe roiling Brazil.
A post-mortem examination performed on Wednesday on the remains of Diaram Naris, whose body was found at the Whim foreshore nearly a month ago, found that he died from drowning.
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