Guyana News

A 22-year-old woman is now in police custody pending a charge after claiming that she was robbed of $450,000 in an attack at the Best Bet Superbet at Patentia, West Bank Demerara.

Members of the New Amsterdam Prison Task Force on Monday uncovered a quantity of ganja on an inmate.

A motorcyclist last week suffered a broken leg after he was involved in an accident at Rupert Craig Highway and Conversation Tree.

President Irfaan Ali on Monday praised outgoing CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque for his stewardship and strength of character, saying that the region benefitted during his tenure.

Danion Welcome, the driver of the truck that crushed a seven-year-old to death along the Agricola Public Road just over two years ago, was on Tuesday freed of the charge of causing her death by dangerous driving.

A businessman is now dead after he and another man came under heavy gunfire tonight along Regent Street, in Georgetown.

The Ministry of Health today said that as of August 09, 2021, three more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Malisha Dutchin, who is accused of being the mastermind behind the murder of overseas-based Guyanese Hemraj Pardesi, was today charged with the crime alongside an alleged accomplice, even as police continued a hunt for a third accused.

Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Sergeant Keyon King and two security guards have been remanded to prison over last week’s $58 million Wallison Enterprise gold heist at Kitty.

Three suspects, including a Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Sergeant, who were arrested in connection with the Wallison Enterprise multi-million dollar gold heist at Kitty, are expected to be charged today by police, who say the men have confessed.

A statutory meeting of the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) was on Monday aborted after a standoff between some city councillors and recently appointed Interim Town Clerk Candace Nelson, who was served with notice of a legal challenge to her appointment.

President Irfaan Ali has ordered that freight charges be reduced to pre-pandemic levels in order to lower taxes on imports, thereby relieving consumers of the burden of rising prices on commodities that have been passed on due to higher shipping costs.

Two persons were yesterday charged with four counts of forgery stemming from a nearly $30 million wire transfer fraud that targeted the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI).

House Speaker Manzoor Nadir yesterday denied a move by Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon for the National Assembly to discuss the recently implemented COVID-19 measures, which he said have placed undue restrictions on unvaccinated persons.

Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield has discontinued his legal challenge to bar government-nominated members of the Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM) from voting on a motion to dismiss him.

Two men are Guyana’s latest COVID-19 fatalities while 12 new cases have been recorded, according to the Ministry of Health.

Up to last weekend, nearly 30% of the adult population of Region Two had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to Regional Health Officer Dr Ranjeev Singh, who says newly implemented measures to restrict access by the unvaccinated to government services have resulted in an uptake. 

The government has confirmed that a payment of over US$79 million was received into the Natural Resources Fund (NRF) account for Guyana’s seventh oil lift.

Guyana may have lost up to an estimated US$13 million in potential returns on investments due to its sloth in not operationalising its Natural Resource Fund, according to economist Dr Tarron Khemraj.

The police yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for a suspect in the murder of Jaleel Leow, who was shot and killed last week while at a friend’s house in Sophia.