Guyana News

A 16-year-old pedal cyclist succumbed yesterday after he was hit by a vehicle on the No.

Joel Skeete, the 19-year-old University of Guyana (UG) student whose body was discovered on the west bank of the Demerara River on Monday, died as a result of drowning, an autopsy confirmed yesterday.

Mark Henry, a relative of the Henry cousins who were found murdered in the Cotton Tree backlands, West Coast Berbice last year, was yesterday charged with the slaying of Surojdeo Deochand.

A pensioner died on Monday after he was struck down by a car while crossing the Providence Public Road, on the East Bank of Demerara.

At 9:15 this morning, acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire SC will commence hearing arguments in the petition challenging the results of the March 2nd, 2020 General Elections.

Residents of Mabaruma have agreed to have century-old rubber trees felled after an evaluation report by the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) recommended that they be removed immediately due to their decayed state. 

Eustace Abrams now awaits sentencing after being convicted yesterday for the 2016 unlawful killing of 40-year-old miner Orlando LaCruz formerly of the Pomeroon River.

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

Three persons were yesterday remanded to prison on a charge of cultivating prohibited marijuana plants.

The rising number of COVID-19 infections coupled with the high death rate for the month of March has drawn the attention of the  umbrella trade union body FITUG.

Minister of Education Priya Manickchand yesterday toured the Ogle site which will house the Guyana Online Academy of Learning (GOAL) which will be presiding over 20,000 scholarships in five years.

The Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) has denied an accusation that its ranks were not wearing CANU insignia during an operation in Dazzell Housing Scheme on March 29.

Three persons were last week charged with the murder of Nico Layne, who was chopped to death at Leopold Street in Georgetown on Sunday, March 28.

Timothy Tucker of Rid-O-Pes has been elected as President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI).

Two Berbice men are now hospitalised after they were chopped about their bodies in separate incidents during the Easter holiday.

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

Rondell Bacchus, 40, who was wanted by the police for questioning in relation to the murder of Ricardo Fagundes on 2021/03/21 at Main Street, Georgetown is now at Police Headquarters, Eve Leary.

A 16-year-old pedal cyclist succumbed today after he was hit by a vehicle on the No.

Trevor Alfred, 49, shopkeeper of Nazarene Street, Grove Squatting Area, East Bank Demerara (EBD) was fatally stabbed yesterday after a gambling row.

If Guyana can get the approximate US seven cents per KWH projected for electricity from the gas-to-shore project, it should grasp the opportunity as this could be the catalyst for broad economic development but the suppositions must be underpinned by robust studies, financial analyst Floyd Haynes says.