Archive | September, 2010

Wanted ex-soldier captured

Wanted ex-soldier captured

Just a few days after issuing a wanted bulletin for him, police have captured ex-soldier Keron Hebert, who is a suspect in the murders of Bartica gold dealers, Jainarine Raghubar and Ramdeo Deonarine. Kaieteur News understands that the 24-year-old Hebert was nabbed yesterday in Garnett Street Campbellville. He was on a motorcycle when police were closing [...] [...more]

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Witness protection programme in shambles

Witness protection programme in shambles

- more witnesses walk out of holding facility The Guyana Police Force is desperately trying to repair its tattered witness protection programme following allegations by witnesses that they are being held like prisoners. This followed the escape of two more witnesses from the programme yesterday. The witnesses are expected to testify in the sexual molestation trial of popular [...] [...more]

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Asst. Commissioner Paulette Morrison calls it a day

Asst. Commissioner Paulette Morrison calls it a day

After 34 years of service… “There were rough days, very rough days indeed, times when I felt like quitting. But with God’s help and encouragement from relatives…brothers and sisters in Christ, I was able to ride the rough waves and make it to the end.” After 34 years of service in the Guyana Police Force, the lone [...] [...more]

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‘Wanted man’ trades bullets with police in Bare Roots

‘Wanted man’ trades bullets with police in Bare Roots

Police are expected to resume the hunt for a well known criminal suspect who traded bullets with them early yesterday morning in Bare Roots, Bachelor’s Adventure, East Coast Demerara. The man who was recently freed of a murder charge, managed to escape by fleeing into the village’s backlands after discharging about five rounds from a small [...] [...more]

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Dem boys seh…Uncle Freddie blight heself

Dem boys seh…Uncle Freddie blight heself

Uncle Freddie like write bout how he dead. Two time he write how hot coffee fall and scald he and send he to hospital. Old people always seh that wha people ask for dem does get. Hot water bun he tail and he holler like a cow. Dem boys seh that he play mechanic and open he [...] [...more]

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C.N. Sharma heads to Trinidad to seek medical attention

C.N. Sharma heads to Trinidad to seek medical attention

With a reported intent to secure medical attention overseas, owner of CNS TV Channel 6, Chandra Narine Sharma, yesterday left Guyana aboard an Aerojet International flight for Trinidad. Reports are that Sharma, who was a patient at the Balwant Singh Hospital since Saturday was transported by ambulance to the airport but boarded the plane as a [...] [...more]

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Truancy campaign in Lethem nets ‘wanted’ teen

Truancy campaign in Lethem nets ‘wanted’ teen

The Department of Education in region nine conducted a ‘Truancy search operation” last week in Lethem. The exercise was a success as the team captured a 13-year-old female who was wanted by the courts. The operation team was made up of two Education officers, one rank from the Guyana Police Force, one medic and one school [...] [...more]

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Guyanese pilot takes plea deal ahead of US trial

Guyanese pilot takes plea deal ahead of US trial

- faces up to five years in prison, $250,000 fine TETERBORO, NEW JERSEY — The pilot of a now-grounded jet charter firm that came under sharp federal scrutiny following a spectacular 2005 crash at Teterboro Airport pleaded guilty yesterday to making dozens of illegal flights, as part of what prosecutors charged was an “anything goes” scheme [...] [...more]

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DDL, Sandals Resorts Inc. form “strategic partnership”

DDL, Sandals Resorts Inc. form “strategic partnership”

A decision by the Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) to collaborate with Sandals Resorts International was regarded a “strategic partnership” and a “financial win” yesterday when executives from both entities addressed a press conference at DDL’s High Street, Kingston boardroom. The two companies recently inked an agreement which designates El Dorado as the exclusive pouring rum at [...] [...more]

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U-20’s return to camp today ahead of CFU qualifiers

U-20’s return to camp today ahead of CFU qualifiers

Guyana host Jamaica, USVI & Grenada from Oct. 6 By Franklin Wilson The battle lines will be drawn at the regional level once again from October 6 when Guyana play host to Jamaica, Grenada and the United States Virgin Islands in opening round qualification for the FIFA World Under-20 competition. The junior ‘Golden Jaguars’ will be back [...] [...more]

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