Guyana News

Navin Stoll, a 27-year-old truck driver, appeared yesterday before Magistrate Wanda Fortune at the Diamond/Golden Grove Magistrate’s Courts to face the charge of the attempted murder of his wife, 24-year-old Claurine Prescod-Stoll.

Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha yesterday said that the Liliendaal pump station that is seven months behind schedule is expected to be commissioned in two weeks.

Executive Members of the Alliance for Change (AFC) and A New and United Guyana (ANUG) yesterday held a meeting where they “acquainted” themselves with each other and discussed opportunities for collaboration.

The High Commission of Canada in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) yesterday hosted a project steering committee meeting with key stakeholders of the government in an effort to accelerate results for children and enhance coordination among partners for project implementation, a joint High Commission/UNICEF release announced yesterday.

-ignores agreement to give up seat Dr Asha Kissoon, Member of Parliament for The New Movement (TNM), has reiterated her stance that her appointment to the National Assembly was both legal and constitutional.

Guyana and Qatar yesterday held their first political consultation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs & International Cooperation, Takuba Lodge, Georgetown, a Department of Public Information (DPI) release stated.

The government is planning to construct a bridge over the Makouria Creek, in an effort to improve access between Parika and hinterland regions with the project soon going out for tender. 

The contractor responsible for Phase II of the widening of the Railway Embankment – from Sheriff Street to Orange Nassau – has been instructed to cover the sand stockpile used now for charging, so as to avoid it being wasted and being an environmental hazard, Minster of Public Works, Juan Edghill said.

The Ministry of Labour’s Board of Industrial Training (BIT) National Training Project for Youth Empowerment programmes recently held its graduation ceremony for 196 participants at the Essequibo Technical Institute in Region Two.

Former US Congresswoman Jackie Speier who survived an attack in 1978 that killed congressman Leo Ryan prior to the mass suicide in Jonestown disagrees with the plan to turn the north west area into a tourist attraction.

The provision of health services in Guyana was bolstered with the graduation of 148 students from the New Amsterdam School of Nursing, situated in Region Six – East Berbice-Corentyne.

Denellon Emanuel, also known as ‘Thug Life’, was acquitted of attempted murder and wounding charges by a 12-member jury yesterday at the High Court in Demerara.

Police have arrested a Venezuelan man who drove off with a woman’s vehicle at around 7.30 pm on Monday before crashing the vehicle at Soesdyke a short time later.

President Irfaan Ali today announced that the government will be signing a two-year agreement with the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) which includes a retroactive 10% salary increase for 2024, as well as an 8% increase for 2025.

Major contracts were yesterday signed for fire stations at Mahaicony in Region Five and Onderneeming in Region Two.

The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security has begun distributing the 2025 Old Age Pension (OAP) books and aims to complete the process by January 31.

One week after 30-year-old Chibieere Edeah was seriously injured in a crash at the roundabout at Crane, West Coast Demerara, he succumbed to his injuries yesterday.

The Guyana Police Force yesterday denied that a Deputy Superintendent had been transferred as a result of the departure from the country of the wife of Assistant Police Commissioner, Calvin Brutus.

Chief Magistrate (ag) Faith McGusty will deliver a ruling on December 30, 2024, on whether the high-profile 2020 election fraud case will proceed summarily or indictably.

Guyana yesterday submitted to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) the final written brief on the merits of its border controversy case with Venezuela and Caracas is now expected to respond to it.