Larceny by Clerk at GECOM
An Assistant Accounts Clerk of the Guyana Elections Commission is in police custody as investigators continue their probe into a $5 million simple larceny from the agency’s accounts department, Police…
Trafficking in Persons Charge
A 49-year-old East Bank Demerara businessman has been remanded to prison on a charge of trafficking in person. The man Alvin Parag for whom two addresses were provided – Diamond…
Missing Money from GECOM
Several staff members of the Guyana Elections Commission’s Accounts Department have been taken into custody following the disappearance of approximately five million dollars. Crime Chief Wendel Blanhum in an invited…
Probe into fatal worksite incident
A Cuban national who migrated to Guyana four months ago in search of work lost his life on a construction site at Bachelor’s Adventure, East Coast Demerara Monday afternoon. The…
Police looking for A London
The Guyana Police Force on Monday issued a wanted bulletin for 26-year-old Aleeba London, who is wanted for murder and escaping lawful custody. London, whose last known address was given…
Guyana found huge oil reserves 10 years ago, so why are most people still poor?
by The Guardian, Bert Wilkinson in Georgetown, Guyana With a ‘one-sided’ deal handing vast profits to the world’s top oil firms, many Guyanese ask when the energy bonanza will benefit…
Husband and wife are dead in murder suicide
A husband and wife are dead in what the Guyana Police Force has confirmed to be a murder suicide. The Force’s Corporate Communications Unit in a press statement on Sunday…
Bamia or Bust
The new cabinet is sworn in and several Ministers have hit the ground running. The New Local Government Minister Priya Manickchand, who weeks ago was the Minister of Education, travelled…
Fatal stabbing at mine site
A twenty-four-year-old miner is in police custody for the killing of a fellow miner. The deceased, Fitrawle McLeannon, called Cripple, 28 was stabbed to death between Saturday night and Sunday…
PNC Chairman resigns from the Party
Chairman of the People’s National Congress Reform, Sherwayne Holder has resigned from the party. Holder in an email addressed to Party Leader Aubrey Norton said he was resigning with immediate…