Guyana News

Chairman of the Georgetown City Council’s Finance Committee, Oscar Clarke yesterday presented a $2,298,952,544 budget and announced plans to institute a weekly $100 fee for the collection of garbage from city homeowners and to downsize staff.

Extensive rainfall, which has resulted in overflowing rivers, has led to the inundation of some communities, farmlands and roads in the Deep South Rupununi and parts of Lethem, in Region Nine.

Eustace Abrams, the accused in the 2016 unlawful killing of Orlando La Cruz, was yesterday sentenced to 15 years behind bars for the crime.

The High Commission of Canada yesterday held a signing ceremony for a new project that seeks to empower LGBTQ communities here.

According to the World Bank, Guyana could be a high income, oil-producing economy by 2030 but its development must include an agenda for broad-based growth and social cohesion, where all citizens receive a fair share of growth benefits.

Envoys of the  United States, the Euro-pean Union, the United King-dom and Canada   yesterday called on Guyana’s civil society and political leaders to embark on a process of engagement and change this year with the aim of decriminalising intimate same-sex relations.

The General Register Office (GRO) yesterday said that from today, it will begin the distribution of computer-generated certified copies of Birth, Deaths and Marriages which are registered in Guyana.

Superintendent Lorraine Saul, Deputy Commander of Division 4 (B), was on Friday formally read the multiple charges brought against her following the uncovering of a multimillion dollar fraud in the Guyana Police Force’s Finance Department.

A 20-year-old motorcyclist died and another is currently hospitalized after they were involved in an accident on Mandela Avenue, Georgetown on Sunday afternoon.

Two youths who were arrested by police after they allegedly hijacked a car were yesterday charged with armed robbery.

The police are seeking the public’s assistance in locating a 29-year-old Linden resident, who is wanted in connection with the offence of rape.

A man who allegedly admitted to ownership of cannabis on Friday faced two charges of possession. 

A third suspect is wanted by the police in relation to the death of Samuel DeSouza, a labourer who was found dead in front of his house shortly after a confrontation less than two months ago.

Justice Sandra Kurtzious has set June 16th to rule on the application filed by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo who is seeking to set aside a $20M default judgment he has been ordered to pay former government minister Annette Ferguson who had brought a libel action against him.

The trial of ex-soldier Jermaine Jefford and Howard Rambarose, for the 2016 murder of Laing Avenue taxi driver Orin David, is set to commence this morning before Justice Sandil Kissoon at the High Court in Georgetown.

A jury was empaneled yesterday morning to hear the case against Lennox Wayne, called ‘Two Colours,’ who is accused of the 2014 murder of Lusignan beautician Ashmini Harriram.

Over the last three years the Beterverwagting/Triumph Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) has done a lot of things.

Speaker Manzoor Nadir has said that concerns raised about a “slashing” of the budget for the Office of the Leader of the Opposition (OLO) stemmed from a miscommunication by Parliament Office staff.

The Ministry of Public Works last Saturday announced that various stakeholders have agreed to several community enhancement activities, including clean-ups, as part of its 55th independence anniversary programme.

Three persons are now hospitalised after the car they were travelling in toppled and collided with a utility pole at Buxton Public Road, on the East Coast of Demerara on Sunday.