GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AFP) — One prison officer was killed and seven others were injured during a jailbreak in South America's Guyana that saw inmates set fire to the facility and four prisoners escape, authorities said. Chaos broke out at the colonial-era maximum security prison in the...
A man is now in police custody following yesterday's brutal slaying of two men in an early morning gun attack, which also left two underaged boys and a dog with gunshot wounds. Thirty-year-old cook Julio Daniels, and his 34-year-old brother-in-law Fabian Atkinson were shot dead by...
The Caribbean has the highest rate of mortality in the Americas from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) with more than 40 per cent of NCD deaths occurring prematurely in people under 70 years old. Health experts told reporters Wednesday that the NCD epidemic, such as diabetes, hypertension, cancer,...
Prime Minister Gaston Browne has officially put Lena “Queen Ivena” Phillip on notice that he intends to sue her over certain lyrics of her 2017 calypso entitled Nastiness, unless she removes them. At the same time, he has also warned media houses that they will face...
The police are urging residents to immediately report to them any discovery of the circulation of counterfeit Eastern Caribbean Currency or any other currency. Inspector Frankie Thomas made the plea after a resident shared photographs showing counterfeit 50 dollar notes. The notes had the identical serial...