Author Archives: Staff

Hundreds of sugar workers and supporters on Thursday, May 11 protested the pending closure of the Rose hall Estate. General Secretary of the Guyana Agriculture and General workers Union, Seepaul Narine who joined the protest said the government should reconsider the closure of the estate, given that it has upset workers, who believe that the decision […]

  Work on the arch at Cummings Lodge on the east coast of Demerara has being suspended until tonight. this was announced by the government who is also offering an apology for the inconvenience caused. this comes after long lines of traffic was back up along the east coast of Demerara and commuters saying the […]

A Better Hope, East Bank Demerara man was today remanded to prison for the murder of his son Azeen Khan called Orlando. The man, 40-year-old Omar Khan appeared in the Sparendaam Magistrates’ Court before Magistrate Alisha George, where he was not required to plead to the capital offence. The police prosecutor told that court that […]

Post- Mortem examination conducted on the remains of Destiny Holder, the 2-month-old infant who was found dead beside her 18-year-old mother revealed that the child died from “Sudden infant death syndrome”. This was related to family members this morning after the PM was completed. Sudden infant death syndrome is an unexplained death of a baby […]

Seeing her boys after being severely burnt with corrosive acid by their father is what has Shondell Williamson fighting to recover. She recently arrived in the United States to embark on this journey to physical recovery and begun doctor’s consultations in Boston Massachusetts, which will then see her undergoing a number of surgeries on her […]

Relatives of Shaka Bourne, the man shot and killed by police are calling for an inquest to be done into his killing. Family members are of the opinion that an inquest will clear up all the rumors. The shooting occurred at Yarakita, North West District, Region One. Speaking from their North Ruimveldt home, the family […]

Five men were today, May 8, 2017, remanded to prison for the illegal possession of a gun and ammunition. The men, Trevor McKenzie a former policeman, Michael Embrack, Mickey Henry, Jason Archer and Sean Browne appeared before Magistrate Alex Moore, in the New Amsterdam Magistrates’ Court, where they were charged with the of a possession […]

The police are probing the accidental death of a two-month-old infant, Destiny Holder, which occurred at her parents 149, D’Andrade Street, Newtown home on Saturday morning. Tinisha George, mother of the infant said she and the baby retired to bed Friday night and she recalled breastfeeding the infant at the time, but she fell asleep […]

Police on the West Bank of Demerara were called to the village of Uitvlugt this morning(Sunday 7th May)to investigate the murder of a man whose body was discovered in the village, in a pool of blood.  Reports indicate that the dead man was a known thief around the village. There are reports that the man’s […]