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A Guyanese employee in an unidentified bank in New York has been arrested for defrauding the bank to the tune of US$1.7 million. United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Audrey Strauss, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the …

Authorities on Wednesday said two sisters were found dead at a Union County restaurant, a day after the eatery’s co-owner was found fatally shot nearby. The homicides of the women and the shooting death of the eatery’s co-owner, 45-year-old Akanni A. Martin, are connected, according to acting Union County Prosecutor Lyndsay V. Ruotolo. …

On Tuesday, Nazim Shamshudeen, 58, of John Culvert Springlands Corentyne, was found floating in the Corentyne Canal. He disappeared last Sunday. The body was carried to Molseen Creek and then to Skeldon Hospital, where it was checked and pronounced dead in the presence of Constable 23885 Ramnarine by Doctor on …

This wasn’t the usual game of peek-a-boo, but U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers won anyway after they discovered 29 finches concealed in hair rollers inside a Guyana man’s baggage at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Sunday. CBP officers discovered the finches during a secondary baggage examination after the …

A Guyanese national was, on Wednesday, March 24, denied bail when he appeared before Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards for inflicting harm to his nephew during a domestic dispute. Gary Gonzales, 47, who resides in Hannah’s Estate, was charged with Inflicting Grievous Bodily Harm on Neville Alphonso, his 59-year-old nephew. He …

Hamenauth Sarendranauth, a Guyanese businessman living in Barbados who fought for bail on COVID-19 charges, died yesterday, the day he was supposed to return to court. And Queen’s Counsel Michael Lashley, who filed the urgent bail application to get the first-time offender out of prison after he became gravely ill …

Late Monday night, the Guyana Police Force confirmed reports that its officers were involved in a shootout with suspected bandits in Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara. According to police, one of four prisoners who escaped from the Mazaruni Prison earlier this year was shot dead in the backlands of East …

A burnt-out car, a white- fielder wagon- found at Swan on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway Sunday evening. The car is believed to have been the vehicle used by the men who shot and killed Ricardo Fagundes, also known as `Paper Shorts’, on Main and Middle streets Sunday Night. The discovery was …

A Guyanese American is in the run for a New York City Council District in a special election that concludes tomorrow, March 23rd. Latchmi Gopal, a daughter of Guyanese immigrants, community organizer and Bronx native, is running for New York’s City Council District 15 seat, vacated by Ritchie Torres. Torres …

Ricardo Fagundes, called ‘Paper Shorts’, a former employee of embattled gold dealer, Saddiqi ‘Bobby’ Rasul was shot to death outside Palm Court on Main Street. Fagundes who is no stranger to the law was arrested in 2017 for a massive money-laundering scheme. In 2017, SOCU investigated the gold dealer’s relationship …