New York-based Guyanese doctor Kevin Lowe, 55, was on Monday jailed for 12 years in what the Manhattan US Attorney’s office said was one of the largest oxycodone diversion schemes ever dismantled.
The Ministry of Communities will be providing the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) with $100M to open a new cell at the Haags Bosch Sanitary Landfill.
After the formal opening of the Demerara Assizes yesterday, David Godfrey Johnson was sentenced to life in prison for the 2012 killing of his girlfriend Leonaka Natasha Johnson, whose body was found in a canal near her Nismes, West Bank Demerara home.
The Liana Cane furniture factory was reduced to ashes in a mysterious fire yesterday morning.
Colwyn Harding, who has accused police of raping him with a baton during his arrest, yesterday testified that he was repeatedly beaten while in custody at the Timehri Police Station for being disrespectful.
The United States deported 104 Guyanese from the country last year, according to statistics released by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Miner Godfrey Williams will be spending the next two years in jail after he was found guilty of unlawful firearm and ammunition possession.
Although government wants DNA testing to be a feature of the Guyana Forensic Laboratory, Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan says it first needs to ensure the lab meets the required standards.
The police were up to late yesterday working to close the investigation into the murder of British teen Dominic Bernard and the case file is expected to be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) today for advice on charges.
The Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) and the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) will be working closely in a number of areas for 2016, a release from MPI said yesterday.
Japan will be providing assistance to improve the drainage of the capital city, Georgetown.
Almost a month has passed since bus driver Jermaine Barrow was fatally shot and the police are yet to apprehend the triggerman.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday pledged to undertake a historic push to develop a cure for cancer, tapping Vice President Joe Biden to lead the effort.
A four-year-old girl is currently battling for her life at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after the motorcycle she was travelling on crashed into a utility pole along Mandela Avenue yesterday afternoon.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama knocked Republican presidential candidates for anti-Muslim rhetoric and accused critics yesterday of playing into the hands of Islamic State in a speech aimed at setting an optimistic tone for his last year in office.
A woman was yesterday placed on $200,000 bail after denying that she stole clothes and a gold bracelet from the car of a businessman.
(Trinidad Guardian) While an estimated 1,300 businesses will no longer have to pay Value Added Tax (VAT) from next month, thousands of citizens will have to dig deeper in their pockets to buy several items, such as rice (except parboiled and boiled), flour (except all purpose and wheat), coffee, orange and grapefruit juices, mauby, tea and tomato ketchup.
The Ministry of Public Health, Vector Control Services has begun fogging for vector control in identified communities.
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the state-owned National Communications Network, Molly Hassan this morning told Stabroek News that she had resigned from her post.
(Trinidad Guardian) While an estimated 1,300 businesses will no longer have to pay Value Added Tax (VAT) from next month, thousands of citizens will have to dig deeper in their pockets to buy several items, such as rice (except parboiled and boiled), flour (except all purpose and wheat), coffee, orange and grapefruit juices, mauby, tea and tomato ketchup.
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