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Boat captain Claude Pollard is missing, while four passengers have been injured following a boat accident on Saturday (January 30th 2021) That accident involved a Bartica Public Hospital boat ambulance and a passenger boat. According to a police report, their enquiries disclosed at around 19:15 hrs the boat ambulance was proceeding from Parika to Bartica […]

President Irfaan Ali is adamant that Guyana will not bend to threats to the country’s national security. The Head of State gave an address to the Nation on Saturday on the aggression by Venezuela in Guyana’s waters. He noted that “We may be a small country, but we are a proud people”. We have no […]

Pathrina Pilgrim, a 30-year-old mother of two was today remanded to prison after she pleaded not guilty to trafficking in narcotics. The woman was arrested and charged after 534 grams of cocaine which was concealed in a box of snacks was busted at the Eugene F. Correia International Airport, Ogle on January 27th, 2021. The […]

Health Minister, Dr. Frank Anthony today confirmed that a number of prisoners and prison officers have tested positive for COVID-19.  “Today we have a few cases at Lusignan, but those cases having been tested and identified we have not isolated them in a special part of the prison. Dr. Anthony also said that four prisoners […]

A woman busted with cocaine concealed in snacks destined for Brooklyn, New York. The two parcels of drugs weighed 534 grams, (1 pound). The drug was intercepted at the Eugene F. Correia International Airport, Ogle on Wednesday (January 27th, 2021). According to a release from the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit, the box was loaded on a […]

A destitute man is now dead after he was smashed with a brick to his head while he slept at the corners of Camp and Robb Streets. The incident occurred just after 3:00 this morning. Reports are that the suspect first attacked another destitute who was also asleep outside the Tele-performance Building and after that […]