Machine operator stabbed to death by teenagers
A 33-year-old man was Saturday night attacked by three teenage boys and fatally stabbed by one of them while on Commerce Street, Georgetown.
Regional Police Division #9 Senior Superintendent, Raphael Rose and his admin team treated mothers within the division to breakfast at the Lethem Police Station.
Last week on his Facebook page, attorney at law Darren Wade queried the presence of Education Ministry Permanent Secretary, Shannielle Hoosein-Outar at the just concluded PPP Congress.
A 19-year-old is now in police custody after she allegedly set a fire that resulted in the destruction of her mother-in-law’s West Coast Berbice house.
Ovid Akeem Williams, a 19-year-old labourer of Charity Back Street, Essequibo Coast, was last week granted bail in the sum of $100,000 after he was charged with possession of narcotics (39 grammes of cannabis) for the purpose of trafficking.
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Queen’s College (QC) was crowned the north zone champion of the Georgetown division in the Blue Waters Girl’s U-15 Football Championship on Saturday at the National Training Centre, Providence.
– GCF National Championship Qualifiers After two rounds on Saturday in the Guyana Chess Federation’s (GCF) 2024 National Open Championship Qualifiers, FIDE Master (FM) Anthony Drayton and National Women’s Championship runner-up, 13-year-old prodigy Aditi Joshi, were among the leaders from a field of 42 participants.
Ravens and Kobras secured hard-fought victories when the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) U-23 League continued on Saturday evening at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Two brothers were shot and killed while playing a game of dominoes at a shop in the community of Burnt Savannah in Westmoreland on Saturday night.
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (Reuters) – Less than two weeks after floods devastated Brazil’s southern Rio Grande do Sul state leaving at least 143 dead, the state is again on alert this Sunday with the risk of water rising once more to record levels.
TORONTO (Reuters) – A fourth person has been arrested and charged with the murder of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar last year, Canadian police said on Saturday, in a case that strained diplomatic relations with India.
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed a surprise new defence minister, nominating civilian Andrei Belousov, a former deputy prime minister who specialises in economics, for the job more than two years into the Ukraine war, the Kremlin said.
NAHRIN, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Flash floods caused by heavy rains have devastated villages in northern Afghanistan, killing 315 people and injuring more than 1,600, authorities said on Sunday, as villagers buried their dead and aid agencies warned of widening havoc.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday defended a decision to pause a delivery to Israel of 3,500 bombs over concerns they could be used in the Gazan city of Rafah, saying Israel lacked a “credible plan” to protect some 1.4 million civilians sheltering there.