Guyana News

Police Finance Officer Senior Superintendent (ag) Marcelene Washington was on Friday faced with three charges of conspiracy to commit a felony.

A Berbice man is now in police custody after he allegedly kidnapped a 17-year-old earlier in the week from West Canefield, East Canje, Berbice.

The Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has invited bids for the leasing of the City Constabulary Training Complex building.

A twenty-five-year-old bus driver was held at gunpoint and robbed of his bus and a quantity of cash on Sunday night by two men in the vicinity of Swan Village, Soesdyke-Linden Highway.

A 19-year-old is now hospitalised with head injuries after he was caught stealing a car at Cherry Field, La Bonne Intention, East Coast Demerara.

Regal Stationery and Computer Centre has donated over $3.5 million in cleaning supplies and other items to help citizens recover from the devastating effects of the recent flooding across the country.

A Cummings Lodge family has been displaced by a recent fire which was an act of arson.

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

Marcus Bisram has officially filed an appeal with the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) challenging the recent ruling of the Guyana Court of Appeal that he be committed to stand trial for murder.

A $100m loan from the APNU+AFC government to the state-owned Guyana National Printers Limited (GNPL)  in 2017  revealed that not only  were no interest or principal payments made  but that most of the machinery bought is either currently not working or still stored in shipping plastic, a special audit of the transaction has revealed.

The construction of the India-funded Eccles to Ogle road is one step closer as four firms have been short-listed to bid and the development comes even as this country made inroads in negotiating for increased local content participation.

A 22-year-old teacher from Sand Creek in the South Rupununi who was infected with COVID-19 is the latest to succumb to the virus.

Lakeram Mangal who was hospitalised following the deadly crash at Fort Wellington on June 14th succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday.

The wet season had come but having lived forty-nine years close to the banks of the Mazaruni River without a tale of flooding to tell her five children, this was not a concern for Christine George.

A twenty-three-year-old man died after he was stabbed following an altercation  at a birthday party which the twenty-one-year-old suspect was also at.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that three more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died, including two from Region Nine.

While floodwaters in Region Five are slowly receding, the majority of the riverine communities  remain inundated, Chairman Vickchand Ramphal says.

High Court judge Fidela Corbin-Lincoln last month set aside a default judgment she had previously granted to engineer Charles Ceres and his wife, Ndibi Schwiers, owing to the failure of the Guyana Times to file a defence in the stipulated time in a libel suit they had brought against the newspaper.

A fifteen-year-old is currently a patient at the Suddie Public Hospital after he was struck down by a car on Saturday night.

A man changing a tyre, two passengers and a minibus driver were injured on Saturday evening as a result of an accident involving three vehicles along the Port Mourant Public Road, Corentyne, Berbice.