Four years after she was brutally murdered, Kescia Branche’s family was waiting patiently for justice to be served but on Tuesday, the murder accused, Matthew Munroe was freed after the prosecution informed the Georgetown High Court that they are unable to locate key witnesses linking the accused to the brutal crime. An angry and upset…
After spending five years on remand for the murder of high school teacher, Kescia Branche, taxi driver Matthew Munroe walked out of custody as a free man today after the State Prosecution admitted that there was no direct evidence linking the man to the crime and the state’s main witness could not be located. Following…
AS the world observed Africa Day, the Caribbean region must join and share in the outrage being expressed by the African media about use of African images to depict the outbreak of Monkey pox in Europe and North America. The Foreign Press Association of Africa (FPAA), on Saturday (May 22), called on “editorial managers in…
Rae Wiltshire, a local filmmaker, aims to help develop Guyana’s film industry, not just one film at a time, but by working with other local creatives to create the Georgetown film festival next year. Wiltshire has been making short films for a few years now but in 2020, he participated in the Commonwealth Shorts, Caribbean…
The Government Analyst – Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) today announced the immediate recall of the locally made frozen JR Chicken Burger Patties due to contamination with Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella spp. The product is produced by JR Original Burgers and sold in supermarkets in Georgetown. The Food and Drug Analyst Department said that to…
The Opposition is again accusing the government of stymying the work of the Public Accounts Committee after all Government members on the PAC failed to show up for the scheduled PAC meeting on Monday forcing a cancellation. The Government recently passed amendments that changed the requirement for a quorum for a PAC meeting to take…
The Opposition is again accusing the government of stymying the work of the Public Accounts Committee after all Government members on the PAC failed to show up for the scheduled PAC meeting on Monday forcing a cancellation. The Government recently passed amendments that changed the requirement for a quorum for a PAC meeting to take…
The Guyana Police Force (GPF) has launched an investigation into an incident where one of its policemen was caught on camera ‘trading punches’ with a taxi driver on Tuesday morning. Commissioner of Police (ag.) Clifton Hicken, in a statement, said the investigation “will be done with some degree of alacrity in an effort to mitigate…
The Opposition is again accusing the government of stymying the work of the Public Accounts Committee after all Government members on the PAC failed to show up for the scheduled PAC meeting on Monday forcing a cancellation. The Government recently passed amendments that changed the requirement for a quorum for a PAC meeting to take…
COME June 3, 2022, High Court Judge Priya Sewnarine-Beharry, is expected to pass sentence on Thurston Semple, who was found guilty of raping and brutally assaulting a 30-year-old Venezuelan sex worker. In March, a 12-member jury at the Demerara Sexual Offences Court found Semple guilty of sexually penetrating the woman against her will between February…
