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Roundabout accident: Driver to pay $2.1M for damages
The driver who was involved in the accident which destroyed parts of the recently commissioned Eccles/Haags Bosch roundabout has been ordered to pay the state $2.1M for the costs expended to repair infrastructure.
The order was…
En route to Suriname, family vehicle bursts into flames
A Toyota Noah vehicle, PC 7428, caught on fire with a family inside who were returning to neighboring Suriname Wednesday morning at about 8:30 hrs.
The vehicle was being driven by Dinesh Chotkoe, a 45-year-old of Letterhoutstraat 461…
City Police on the run after discharging service weapon at co-worker, visitor
The Guyana Police Force has launched an investigation into a shooting incident involving two Police Constables attached to the Bourda City Constabulary Outpost and a man who was visiting the outpost at the time of the incident.
According…
Two arrested after AK-47 found at Grove house
Members of the Guyana Police Force Tuesday evening conducted an intelligence-led operation at Grove Housing Scheme, East Bank of Demerara, during which they recovered an AK-47 assault rifle with a magazine and arrested two men.
The…
Miner arrested after ganja found in bag
Selwyn Barker, a miner of Laing Avenue, Georgetown, was arrested on Monday after Police Officers found 1,360.8 grammes (or about three pounds of marijuana) in his bag.
Police Headquarters reported that ranks were conducting a 'stop and…
Man, 27, nabbed with more than four lbs of cocaine
Delon Oliver Vanderstoop, a 27-year-old construction worker of Strathspey, East Coast Demerara, was nabbed with 1,927 grammes (or about 4.2 pounds) of cocaine on Tuesday.
Police Headquarters reported that ranks were carrying out a 'stop…
Motorcyclist, 52, dies in Harbour Bridge accident
A 52-year-old motorcyclist succumbed on Tuesday afternoon, hours after he allegedly collided with another motorcycle on the Demerara Harbour Bridge.
Dead is Shazam Khan, 52, of Westminster, West Bank Demerara.
Police Headquarters…
Diamond businesswoman on $100,000 bail for allegedly defrauding man
A 37-year-old businesswoman was on Tuesday placed on $100,000 bail after she was charged with defrauding a businessman last year.
Subrina Prettypaul was arrested on January 6.
Prettypaul is accused of fraudulent misappropriation…
Driver charged with causing death of Tuschen woman; granted $300k bail
Four months after 39-year-old Sursattie Prasad was struck down and killed, a 27-year-old driver was on Tuesday charged in relation to the accident and placed on $300,000 bail.
Ryan Boodhoo of Block Eight, Tuschen New Housing Scheme, East…
Woman withdraws complaint against Buxton man charged for discharging loaded firearm
Rondel Bellamy, 31, a construction worker was on Tuesday charged with discharging a loaded firearm with intent.
Bellamy of Lot 61 Middle Walk, Buxton, ECD was arrested on Monday.
He appeared before Fabayo Azore at the Cove and John…