Guyana News

-hastily rebuilt homes damaged during storm   By Shuntel Glasgow Dissatisfied squatters of Success South, East Coast Demerara are claiming that they were forced to relocate from the lands they had occupied to an undeveloped location further in the backlands that is not served with electricity and water.

The Linden Utility Services Co-operative Society has been restored to active status after a 10-year period of dormancy.

President Irfaan Ali last Thursday revealed that he will soon be meeting with investors to discuss the Berbice River Bridge with the idea of reducing the risk and burden and to allow residents to be in a better place altogether.

The Guyana Police Force [GPF] is currently investigating what it says is a hit-and-run accident on the Railway Embankment Road, Georgetown, in the vicinity of the Sheriff Street Roundabout where a 30-year-old motorcyclist suffered injuries after he was struck by a pickup.

The Supreme Court of Judicature two Mondays ago unveiled an additional wing for the Guyana Court of Appeal in Kingston.

On Saturday, May 18, 2024, the Turkish powership incrementally increased its generation output to 35 MW to the Demerara-Berbice Interconnected System (DBIS).

Two ranks of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) are currently in custody at the Lethem Police Station, on allegations of kidnapping and extortion.

Local businessman Lennox Cush is seeking to develop the controversial Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara land that was once sold to Russian oligarch Oleg Derispaska’s company Rusal for $150 million and for which Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh and former  National Industrial and Commercial and Investments Limited (NICIL) head Winston Brassington were charged.

People’s National Congress Reform’s (PNCR) executive member Amanza Walton-Desir has indicated her willingness to run for the leadership position during the party’s congress, slated for next month.

By Mia Anthony “I never thought that I would have been living the life my mom once lived, of being a domestic violence victim.”

Donovan Douglas called ‘Uncle Danny’, 81, of Stevedore Housing Scheme, North Ruimveldt was killed by a speeding car on the Eccles Public Road on Saturday evening.

Stabroek News spoke to members of the public in Guyhoc, Georgetown about the rising cost of living and how it is affecting them.

Two men were shot and a firearm seized during a police operation in Agricola on Saturday night.

Former Minister of Finance Winston Jordan has filed an action in which he is seeking damages in excess of $300,000,000 against the police and Director of publications (DPP), whom he said had maliciously charged and prosecuted him.

Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man, who was found lifeless in his car yesterday in the vicinity of Heroes Highway, with blood flowing from his nostrils. 

A 23-year-old Guyana Telephone and Telegraph company (GTT) technician was shot once during a robbery on Saturday night by two men armed with a handgun at Congress Drive, South Ruimveldt, Georgetown.

A 31-year-old mill operator of Lot 4642 Westminster, West Bank Demerara who was arrested on May 12th over the unlawful possession of firearm and ammunition without license was granted bail in the sum of $250,000 when he appeared at the Wales Magistrate’s Court.

Police are investigating an alleged armed robbery, committed on a chef at her Kitty home by motorcycle bandits.

Police, during an intelligence-led operation on Saturday, discovered 195.7 grammes of cannabis in a house at Best Village, West Coast Demerara.

Vaughndel Tobin, a 25-year-old of Charity  Back Street, Essequibo Coast was sentenced to one year in prison last week, after he pleaded guilty to possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.