January 19, 2024

By Sharda Bacchus Shardabacchus@newsroom.gy Investigators on Friday made a breakthrough in the almost three-year-old murder of 20-year-old Shonnette Dover, after her boyfriend Shaquawn Alleyne popularly known as ‘IzWe’, confessed to…

In a 29-page ruling handed down this afternoon, the Caribbean Court of Justice granted Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo’s appeal reversing the Court of Appeal’s rejection to hear his application for leave to appeal the High Court’s refusal to…

A report flowing from the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the events and circumstance connected with and concerning the Mahdia dormitory fire that claimed 20 young lives was handed over President Dr. Irfaan Ali on Friday. During a…

A 36-year-old utility operator is now nursing two gunshot wounds to his feet after he was shot and robbed of his gold band and cellphone worth close to $300,000 on Thursday. The News Room understands that the incident occurred just after…

A 32-year-old coconut vendor was shot twice on Thursday night by two men on a black XR motorcycle. Injured is Kevin Lachish of Broad and Lombard Streets, Georgetown. Police Headquarters reported that the shooting occurred at about…

In an effort to enhance customers’ experience and provide ‘fast pace’ services, the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) on Friday launched its ‘revolutionary’ WhatsApp Chatbot mobile application. To access the app, customers are required to…

Inclement weather in the city has forced the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) to shift its final and third place playoff of the SVC/Precision Service Centre Inc. sponsored Inter-Association T20 competition to January 27 at the Georgetown…

By Kurt Campbell Kurt@newsroom.gy In an auspicious ceremony, attended by several high-ranking members of the government, judiciary and those piloting social services, the first of several ‘Hope and Justice’ centres to be built across…

David McDonald, the labourer who was arrested at the Eugene F. Correia International Airport for possession of 84 grams of cannabis, was on Friday fined $75,000. Failure to pay to fine will result in six months imprisonment. McDonald…

Joshua Josiah Mentore, the Pattensen, Georgetown resident who pleaded guilty to trafficking a quantity of ecstasy pills last month, was on Thursday sentenced to nine months in jail and fined $153,000. The sentence was handed down by…