Three national players have departed to participate in the Major League Soccer (MLS) Caribbean Combined scheduled for Bridgetown, Barbados, from October 22-25. The three – Ryan Hackett, Kevin Layne and Kevin Dundas – were shortlisted from a six-member player profile submitted by the Guyana Football Federation (GFF). In an invited comment, GFF’s Technical Director Ian…
A gold miner who allegedly stabbed a fellow miner to death during a drunken row over cigarettes was charged for murder and remanded to jail today. 35-year-old, Parsaram Ramnauth appeared before Chief Magistrate, Ann Mclennan and was not required to enter a plea to the indictable charge of murder. It is alleged that on the…
Reports are that close to a dozen employees of the Pritipaul Singh Investments fisheries complex on the lower East Bank of Demerara have been rushed to the hospital around 1400hrs today after a gas leak left some persons in an unconscious state. This publication understands that three pregnant women were among the staff who were
Opposition Parliamentarian and popular Bishop, Juan Edghill on Monday thanked God for sparing his life as he is engaged in a manhunt for the driver who he believes is part of a coordinated attempt to do him serious harm. Speaking to the News Room by phone, Mr Edghill said the vehicle slammed him from the…
A late night hang between family members turned deadly this morning when the group was attacked by two masked men who shot one of the family members dead while robbing the others. Dead is 30-year-old, Christopher Swamy of Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara. The incident took place around 1:30 this morning. The Police report said…
THOUSANDS of Guyanese assembled at D’Urban Park, Georgetown at the crack of dawn on Saturday dressed in pink and walked, ran or cycled to raise awareness of breast cancer in the country, as part of GTT’s Pinktober activities. Participants moved from D’Urban Park along Vlissengen Road to the Kitty Roundabout and back to the park,
Police have arrested a suspect in the murder of 30-year-old Christopher Swamy, a Handyman of Lot 161 Mon Repos Pasture, East Coast Demerara, who was shot dead in front his house in the wee hours of Sunday. Police Headquarters revealed that Swamy, his wife, sister-in-law along with 28-year-old Rawle Williams and his wife, Marica were…
Two days after he was busted with with over two pounds of cocaine in his possession, a Land of Canaan man found himself before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court facing drug possession and trafficking charges. The 31-year-old accused, Wyette Amsterdam, pleaded not guilty when he appeared in Court and the charges were presented to him this…
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 22-year-old man who was shot and subsequently died on Saturday morning. Dead is Jarrel Noble , called “Dumb Boy”an unemployed man of Lot 12, Tuschen Tiger Bay, East Bank Essequibo (EBE). He died at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) on Saturday. Investigations revealed that
A 17-year-old boy has been arrested for attempted murder after he allegedly dealt his friend a lash to the head with a piece of wood during an argument on Friday night at La Retraite, West Bank Demerara. The victim, 18-year-old Peter Liverstone, also of La Retraite, suffered a fractured skull and is a patient at…
