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Soldiers missing after Cuyuni River mishap

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The Guyana Defence Force has launched a search for two army ranks who are missing following a boat mishap in the Cuyuni River last Tuesday night. One of the missing ranks has been identified as...

Mob kills South Ruimveldt man on his way home

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…killers identified as community police The police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Hardel Haynes, 43, an electrician of Spurwing Drive, South Ruimveldt, Georgetown....

Electricity bill remains high

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– GPL official Oil prices on the world market have plummeted to close to $US40 per barrel, but it is unlikely that there will be a reduction in electricity rates charged by the Guyana Power and...

Murdered politician’s computer recovered

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– youth implicates friend Detectives have found the computer that was stolen from the home of National Front Alliance (NFA) executive member Fiesal Ferose Ali, who was brutally murdered in his...

Guyana’s last cinema gets innovative to stay in business

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– rents out to churches, offers big-screen advertising to businesses By Michael Jordan After over five decades in existence, Guyana’s only remaining cinema is battling to stay in business,...

Contractor’s waste may cause City Hall to take action

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The Mayor and City Council of Georgetown is set to take affirmative action against the contractor carrying out construction work at the old Radio Demerara Site, which according to City Mayor Hamilton...

Telethon goes to the aid of 12-year-old

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A second surgery has become necessary to remove a recurring tumour aback the right eye of 12-year-old Tionne Jones of Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara. On Monday, in a quest to solicit needed...

Couple remanded for trying to ‘con’Courts

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A couple who probably wanted to “fancy up” their home for the Christmas holiday was remanded to prison after a court appearance before acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson. It was alleged...

Space is a serious issue at nursing schools – Dr Ramsarran

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The overcrowding situation at the country’s nursing schools is perhaps one of the prices that the Ministry of Health must pay in its quest for further development of the health sector. This...

East Bank residents face water woes

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Malfunctioning wells along East Bank Demerara are causing great inconvenience to many residents who have to go without water. On Monday, residents of Grove, Bagotstown, Diamond and other villages...

What a travesty?

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Ex-presidential guard on $200,000 bail for larceny

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Ex-presidential guard Reginald Brown was yesterday granted $200,000 bail by acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson for allegedly stealing one Hilux pick-up, PGG 8348, property of Kalmia Mohamed,...

Suspected trunker removed from streets

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A serial break and enter specialist was yesterday remanded to prison, after he pleaded not guilty to stealing one handbag and other items valuing $48,000, property of Nalima, on July 31. Acting Chief...

Digicel’s Christmas wish for SMS interconnection may not be granted

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Digicel Guyana may not be getting its Christmas wish of having Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) opening up text messaging between Digicel and GT&T networks in time for Christmas....

Guyanese charged with having sex with underage girl in BVI

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A 30-year-old Guyanese man, Dillon Bevon Williams, who has been living in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) for approximately three years, was charged with having sex with a girl under the age of 16....

Exotic dancer fined after smashing windscreen

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“Ya Worship, I want you remember me when you eating your black cake this Christmas,” were the words of Wayne Walkins, 32, of 3416 Stevedore Housing Scheme, after he was sentenced by acting Chief...

No operations disrupted

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-Deputy Commissioner General Last Thursday’s fire at the Guyana Revenue Authority Office in the Guyana Post Office Corporation Building in no way hampered any of the Revenue Authority’s...

NCN spearheads gift collection for less fortunate

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As children around the world look forward to receiving toys and goodies during the Christmas season, there are families right here in Guyana who cannot afford to purchase any of these for their kids....

Beneficiaries seem disinterested — Kenneth Joseph

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The workers who have been separated from the Guyana Power and Light Company as part of the company’s rationalisation exercise seem not to be interested in the Information Technology programme which...

Special group seeks to give prisoners’children a good Christmas

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The Women’s Ministries, the Prison Fellowship International and the Personal Ministries Department of the Guyana Conference of Seventh Day Adventists, in collaboration with the Guyana Prison...

Prisoners in knife fight still hospitalised

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– one still critical Randy Joseph, 25, who was stabbed in his chest by another inmate at the Georgetown Prison, was still in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital’s intensive...

Weather will not be a challenge this year – Kashif Muhammad

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With the 19th Kashif and Shanghai (K&S) football tournament set to start this Sunday at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground in Linden, Director of the organisation Kashif Muhammad says that the rain...

ISUZU Guyana congratulates Forde

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ISUZU Guyana yesterday extended congratulations to Cleveland Forde on becoming the first Caribbean athlete to cross the finish line after placing fourth overall on Saturday in the annual Run Barbados...

Accused killer’s caution statement admitted

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Murder accused Delon ‘Fatboy’ Reynolds’s caution statement was yesterday read to the jury and tendered into evidence, as the trial into the murder of self-confessed death squad informant George...

Bill seeks to quicken judges’decisions

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Under the proposed Time Limit for Judicial Decisions Bill 2008, a judge may be removed from office for failing to give decisions and reasons within a specified period after a matter has concluded....

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