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Man gets $300k bail for raping girl, 15

  A 54-year-old man was yesterday released on $300,000 bail after he was charged for raping a 15-year-old girl. The man appeared at the Leonora Magistrate's...

3rd person charged with murder of 10-Y-0 Sophia lad

A Lot 999 Section B Sophia, Greater Georgetown man is now the third person charged with the murder of 10-year-old Anthony Cort, who was...

Berbice man who set wife on fire remanded to prison

Five days after allegedly setting his wife on fire, 30-year-old Ganeshwar Sheocharran has been remanded to prison on an attempted murder charge. The accused, of...

Man jailed for 2 years over theft of kitchen utensils from mandir

A 65-year-old man was on Wednesday sentenced to two years’ imprisonment after admitting to breaking into a mandir and stealing over $320,000 in items. Sadiq...

Judge refuses to grant injunctions barring Govt from implementing Covid protocols

High Court Justice Fidela Corbin-Lincoln today refused to grant the injunctions being sought by three of the country’s major trade unions in relation to...

Businessman charged for failure to produce employees’ records to NIS

The owner of PHO 592 Original House of Soup has been charged and released on $60,000 bail on an charge that he failed to...

Suspended PSC case: President immune from civil proceedings – Court rules

President Dr Irfaan was removed as the third named respondent in the case filed by the suspended Police Service Commission (PSC) after High Court...

Constitutional agencies’ budgets: Full Court dismisses Opposition’s appeal to block scrutiny

The Full Court, comprising of Justices Brassington Reynolds and Sandil Kissoon, dismissed Opposition Member of Parliament Ganesh Mahipaul et al’s appeal which sought to...

2017 rape charge against man discharged; victim no longer wants to proceed

A man who was in 2017 arrested and charged for raping of a child was on Monday set free after the charge was discharged...

Carpenter remanded for murder of soldier, girlfriend

Following an alleged confession, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) has charged 23-year-old Koabe Grant with the murders of a Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Lance...

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Update: DDL fire started in generator room

See full statement from the Guyana Police Force: 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐃𝐃𝐋'𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐝 A fire of unknown origin allegedly started in the Generator Room of...

Fire erupts at DDL’s Diamond facility

A fire has erupted at the Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD) facility of the Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL). INews will provide more details as it...

‘We have tons of ideas’ – Jagdeo on spending $7B to ease rising cost...

Vice President Dr Bharrat Jagdeo has said that the Government has a lot of ideas on how to spend the $7 billion that has...

MoHSSS says it has addressed over 2700 cases of child abuse

The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security says it has responded to approximately 2,753 reports of child abuse to date and that it...

Min. Todd attends meeting on roadmap for integration of South America

Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Hugh Todd is attending the IV Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Brasilia Consensus...

After 1 month on the run, Berbice wife beater nabbed by police

See full statement from the Guyana Police Force: After successfully eluding arrest since August 26, 2024, Police today managed to apprehend suspected 'wife abuser' Edwin...

Jagdeo hints at updates to local copyright laws

Vice President Dr Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday hinted at updating the country’s copyright legislation. Following the recent move by Guyanese musicians Jackie ‘Jackie Jaxx’ Hanover...

Govt aims to write-off further $5B in student loans by year-end

Vice President Dr Bharrat Jagdeo has revealed that the government anticipates writing off an additional 2,900 student loans this year, totaling approximately $5 billion. Jagdeo...

Berbice man charged for raping boy, 11

      A Berbice contractor was on Thursday arraigned for allegedly raping an 11-year-old boy. Narish Narinedatt, 31, of East Bank Berbice, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) appeared...

Mae Thomas remains on paid leave – VP Jagdeo

Nearly four months after being sent on leave with immediate effect on June 11, 2024, Mae Thomas, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Labour,...