The police yesterday arrested a tint shop owner who allegedly provided the false number plates that were placed on the car used by the gang of men who robbed the Bank of Baroda branch at Mon Repos, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum said.
A who pleaded guilty to 11 charges involving the use of a gun was yesterday sentenced to a total of 51 years’ imprisonment, though he will only serve five years as the sentences will run concurrently.
A Port Kaituma man died over the weekend, succumbing to a reported self-inflicted gunshot wound he received in neighbouring Venezuela.
To pick out Nicholas Narine as one the men who carried out the violent robbery on her and her family, Land Court Judge Nicola Pierre had asked that he say the word “solid” during the identification (ID) parade, a police officer testified yesterday.
A single mother of six was yesterday remanded to prison after appearing before a city court on a charge of trafficking almost a kilo of cannabis.
A Bagotstown miner, who told a court that he used cannabis for medicinal purposes, was yesterday refused bail on a trafficking charge.
The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder charge against Richard Stanton, the man accused of killing businesswoman Patricia Sanasie, began yesterday with the testimonies of two investigators in the case.
The PPP/C will today present to the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) 70 lists to contest 550 Constituencies and nine Municipalities in the upcoming Local Government Elections.
An uncle and his nephew were each placed on bail yesterday after being charged with assaulting each other.
Brian Dummett was yesterday sentenced to nine months in jail after he pleaded guilty to wounding another man.
A Cummings Lodge shopkeeper was remanded to prison yesterday after being charged with selling drugs to an undercover policeman.
As Guyana continues to take all possible preventative measures against H1N1 and the Zika virus, Chief Medical Officer Dr Shamdeo Persaud yesterday announced that 10,000 doses of H1N1 vaccines have been procured and two samples of blood were sent for testing at the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA).
Mayor Hamilton Green and Deputy Mayor Patricia Chase-Green yesterday lashed out at the City Engineers and Public Health departments, calling them incompetent.
A minibus driver was yesterday placed on $30,000 bail after he denied stealing a quantity of electronics.
A medex is expected to be deployed to the Pomeroon River community of Aka-wini by March and Minister of Public Health Dr George Norton has urged villagers to select two persons residing in the area to be trained as medexes.
DOUALA, Cameroon (Reuters) – Suicide bombers targeting a town in northern Cameroon killed 32 people and wounded 66 yesterday, one of the worst attacks yet in the Central African nation as it struggles to contain violence blamed on Nigeria’s Boko Haram.
GTT employees who are 55 years and over and have served the company for at least ten years were recently offered the option of voluntary retirement, a release from the telephone company said.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti is likely to install an interim government to transfer power to a new president, a senior US official said yesterday, after the Caribbean nation called off an election, days before current President Michel Martelly is due to leave office.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council should place an arms embargo on South Sudan, while the oil-rich country’s President Salva Kiir and a rebel leader qualify to be sanctioned over atrocities committed in a two-year civil war, UN sanctions monitors said in an annual report.
Maurice Bovell, a resident of Good Hope, Essequibo, Region 2 on Friday officially adopted the community’s health centre, the Government Information Agency (GINA) said.
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