Superbike Racer Stephen Vieira and Race Car driver, Tazim Gafoor are among four remanded for cocaine in Lumber bust

They were jointly charged with Sherwayne DeAbreu a Guyana Revenue Authority Enforcement officer and Nazim Gafoor the father of the motor racer. Under tight security, the men were brought before Magistrate Roshelle Liverpool in the Leonora Magistrates’ court this morning to answer to the drug trafficking charges. They were jointly charged with Sherwayne DeAbreu a […]

Two fishermen charged with piracy murder.

Two Rose Hall Corentyne fishermen were today remanded to prison, for the piracy murder of boat captain Mahadeo Ramdial, while a third man was charged with aiding and abetting the men. The men, Khemraj Naraisan and Doodnauth were not required to plead to the indictable charge of murder, when they appeared before Chief Magistrate, Ann McLennan […]

Clothes vendor dies in Camp and Middle Street accident

The man has been identified as 45-year-old, Dereck Mangal of Diamond on the East Bank of Demerara.  Eyewitnesses said the accident occurred just after 7:00 Monday morning. They recalled the man was riding his motorcycle when a speeding car apparently jumped the traffic light and slammed into another car which hit Mangal and sent him […]

“The final price must make the houses accessible” Minister Patterson cautions private housing developers.

Amidst lots of buzz and excitement, the Central Housing and Planning Authority rolled out its “Housing Model Village”, at Perseverance on the East Bank Demerara. Junior Minister of communities, Valarie Patterson said when she first spoke with private contractors, it was made clear to them, that the target group includes low to middle-income earners, youths […]

Cocaine in lumber: CANU seeks International help to retrieve data from seized DVR they believe has critical information

A Digital Video Recording device was retrieved from the home of NAZIM GAFOOR at Vreed-en- Hoop, WBD, but agents later discovered that the device’s storage was ‘wiped’ and as such, CANU says they are now seeking international assistance in retrieving the data, that may have been therein. Canu still has a wanted bulletin out for […]

Deeds Registrar charged with $4.5M fraud

Registrar of the  Deeds registry, Azeena Baksh was on Tuesday (May 23) charged with obtaining money by false pretense. The police’s case is that between May 1st, 2014 and January 31, 2017, in Georgetown, Baksh caused or procured valuable securities in the sum of $4.5M to be delivered to her bank of Novia Scotia account […]