Guyana News

As the country awaits a decision by the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) on whether it will postpone scheduled assessments, Minister of Education Priya Manickchand yesterday said that the government is open to giving students more time.

One of the two men on trial for the 2016 murder of Laing Avenue taxi driver Orin David was acquitted yesterday after his attorney successfully presented a no-case submission. 

Two Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) clerks were among four persons charged on Friday with forging several cheques to the value of $19.4 million in the name of the revenue collection agency.

Two days after surrendering himself to the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU), Omesh Lakeram was on Friday charged with trafficking 207 pounds of ganja and released on $150,000 bail.

More reports of inundated farms are emerging from the South Rupununi as the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) continues its flood assessment in Region Nine.

The Board of Directors of the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) today said that a fraud was perpetrated at a commercial bank and resulted in the debit of GWI’s bank account of nearly $30m.

Chairman of the Police Service Commission and former Assistant Commissioner Paul Slowe will be vigorously defending the allegations and criminal charges of conspiracy to defraud and sexual assault.

The Ministry of Health today said that two more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Education Minister Priya Manickchand today said that public schools will remain closed for the remainder of May, June, July and August.

Pandit Rajin Lalaram, of Region Five, succumbed to COVID-19 on Thursday evening in the Intensive Care Unit at the Liliendaal Hospital, sending his family, friends and admirers into a state of mourning.

Retired and serving senior police officers were yesterday arraigned on charges of conspiracy to defraud the Guyana Police Force (GPF) of over $10 million, stemming from a paid review of the force’s Standing Orders.

Tower Suites co-owner Shervington ‘Big Head’ Lovell was sentenced to 11 years in prison yesterday by United States Judge Paul G.

Police in Orealla, Region Six  yesterday afternoon arrested two Brazilian nationals after the plane they were onboard crashed-landed in the village with a quantity of suspected cocaine.

Commissioner of Police (ag) Nigel Hoppie has ordered that an investigation into the fatal shooting of robbery accused Peter Headley by a cop be “swiftly” concluded.

A Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) prosecutor was taken into police custody on Wednesday afternoon after he was allegedly caught collecting a $300,000 bribe to drop a court case.

Insisting that it used global best practices to determine the amounts of the fines catered for in the revised Liza-1 Environmental Permit, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday assured that Guyana will not have to pay a cent of the US$30 per Co2 equivalent fine catered for in the document and said that its current staff is competent enough to calculate the penalties.

Guyana on Thursday recorded 136 new cases of the novel coronavirus.

Floodwater in Regions Nine and Ten is slowly receding as teams continue to conduct assessments of the damage caused.

Tenders were on Tuesday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the construction of dorms at the Kato Secondary School in Region Eight.

The judiciary yesterday commissioned a new building which houses the Bartica Magistrate’s Court as well as a fully-furnished living quarters—which all together—are pegged at a cost of $177,331,000.