Bangladesh’s selectors picked a 24-man preliminary squad for the ODI series against West Indies later this month, and the one player they didn’t pick has become the main talking point: Mashrafe Mortaza, the country’s highest wicket-taker in ODIs and longest-serving captain. This is the first time Mortaza has been dropped from the ODI squad since making his debut in…
Cuban national Yoel Rodrigues will appear in Court tomorrow to face murder charges for the beating and slashing deaths of 34-year-old Tara Krishnaran and her 11-year-old daughter. Rodrigues, who was the woman’s lover, has admitted to murdering the two. The Guyana Police Force received advice today from the Director of Public Prosecutions to proceed with…
ON New Year’s night what started as an evenly matched encounter developed into a see-saw battle then was marred by a referee’s poor decisions as Georgetown All Stars claimed the final win of the Bounce Back Football tournament. The event, which was a collaboration of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), Ministry of Culture, Youth and…
The Guyana Police Force is seeking the public’s assistance in identifying the body of a male which was involved in an accident on January 1, 2021 at Covent Garden Public Road, East Bank Demerara. The body which is presently at Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation Mortuary is of Amerindian descent and appears to be in his…
32-year-old clothes vendor, Paul Smith aka Blacka of Bent Street, Werk-en-Rust became the country’s first murder victim for the new year when he was shot dead on Commerce Street in Georgetown on New Year’s Day. The incident took place at around 6:30pm and the suspect is also a clothes vendor who operates in the same…
A ‘normal’ Old Year’s night would feature scores of persons gathering to usher in the New Year with a spectacular fireworks display put on by the Guyana Defence Force. There would also be church services — with avid devotees and the once-a-year specialists who know it’s best to go into the New Year with blessings.…
Police are investigating the murder of 32-year-old Paul Anthony Smith called ‘Blacka’, a clothes vendor of Bent Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown. Police Headquarters in a statement revealed that Smith was shot to the upper back by another clothes vendor at about 18:00h on Friday. The incident occurred on Commerce Street in Georgetown. The suspect has since…
Twenty-eight-year-old Cuban national, Yoel Rodrigues has been remanded to jail for the murder of 34-year-old Tara Krishnaran and her 11-year-old daughter. The Cuban national who went on the run just after the double murder was arrested earlier this week in Linden. In Court today, he was not required to enter a plea to the two…
— 2021, the year of recovery, says President Ali President, Dr Irfaan Ali has announced a one-off cash grant of $25,000 each to workers of the entire Public Sector. The Head of State declared that over 60,000 workers and their families will benefit from the venture which will cost the Government over $2B. “I am…
A man and his wife are hospitalized after they were stabbed by armed bandits at their Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara home on Thursday evening. Reports are that at about 19:45h, 49-year-old Keith Williams got up to open a door to let his cat in. It was then that he was confronted by two men, who…
