Police have arrested 19-year-old Junior Linton, known as ‘Butter’, in connection with an early-morning armed robbery in Albouystown that left a 61-year-old man beaten and robbed of $30,000 in cash. The incident occurred at about 05:00 hrs on Thursday along Hogg Street, Albouystown. Reports indicate that the victim, Yasmin Mohamed, a labourer, was riding his The post ‘Butter’, 19, arrested after cutlass attack on elderly labourer appeared first on News Room Guyana.

Twenty-three-year-old Joshua Taylor was fatally wounded early Thursday morning during attempts to restrain him after he took possession of his father’s licensed firearm and began shooting indiscriminately. The incident occurred between 00:15 hrs and 01:15 hrs at South Turkeyen, Georgetown, outside Taylor’s home. The News Room understands that investigations revealed Joshua’s father, Garvin Taylor, was The post Man, 23, fatally wounded after firing father’s gun indiscriminately appeared first on News Room Guyana.

Big promises of cash transfers made by the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) at its campaign launch on Sunday have been shot down by General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, as “extravagant and unsustainable.” “It is a lot of unsustainable promises. They are very extravagant on promises as they The post Jagdeo says ‘unsustainable promises, racism’ characterise APNU’s campaign appeared first on News Room Guyana.

The United States Ambassador to Guyana, Nicole Theriot, on Wednesday said the longstanding ban on Guyana’s catfish exports to the United States is moving closer to being resolved. Exporters were severely affected when the ban was imposed in 2017, following protocols established by the US in 2016. Although countries were given a transitional period to The post Guyana’s catfish export ban to the U.S likely to be lifted soon appeared first on News Room Guyana.