Guyana News

Sam Melville, a 44-year-old manager employed at the Markanata Ranch in Central Rupununi, Region Nine, was arrested by Police at about 00:30hrs this morning after he was found with an unlicensed firearm and a live round of ammunition.

-six others injuredA businessman of South Ruimveldt was fatally wounded yesterday morning on D’Urban Street when four gunmen in a car opened fire and five other persons were injured.

By Nazima Raghubir Nancy McKenzie reaches for a pack of exercise books, her customer is a teenager shopping for school supplies, “this is what I live on,” she quips, “I came here to make a living.”

A 31-year-old taxi driver who was wounded last week at Parika, East Bank Essequibo in an altercation with a 30-year-old construction worker, succumbed to his injuries at the Georgetown Public Hospital Intensive Care Unit on Friday.

More than a month later, the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) is still to be updated by the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) on the progress of the Belle Vue pump station which was controversially awarded to Tepui Inc.

-also runs community centres While the Ordnance/Fort Lands Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) continues to push its street and drainage programme, it is also heavily focused on continuing to build community relations with its counselling centre.

The annual Jamzone Summer Break at the Splashmins Fun Park & Resort, at Madewini on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway is scheduled to take place today.

Major preparatory works have commenced in relation to canals like the one at Hope, East Coast Demerara which will be constructed in the Corentyne area to obviate the possibility of any heavy flooding. 

A family on the Corentyne  has been plunged into mourning as a woman and her daughter both died following the ingestion of poison.

A book review by Christopher Ram – Part 2 For many Guyanese, chapter 3 of Dr Maurice Odle’s memoir is the most exciting and interesting, covering a period from the late sixties to the year 1980, the year of the assassination of Walter Rodney.

Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill, accompanied by representatives from the Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC), visited the residents of Ogle Airport Road, and neighbouring villages to discuss upcoming infrastructural developments, a Ministry of Public Works (MoPW) release yesterday stated.

Police conducted a raid between 00:00 and 03:40 hrs yesterday at the Red Dragon Night Club located at Robb Street, Bourda, Georgetown.

Forty-three-year-old Sherwin De Young and his family, of Mainstay in Region Two yesterday accepted the keys to a brand-new two-bedroom home from the executive members of Men on Mission (MOM). 

The police say they are investigating a shooting incident which occurred at about 5.45  this morning at Lot 23 D’Urban Street, Lodge, Georgetown, which resulted in the death of Anthony Havercome, a 40-year-old vendor from South Ruimveldt, who was shot multiple times.

Inmate  Bevon Griffith was  shot yesterday by Prison Officers after he attempted to scale the Camp Street prison fence.

Already discomforted at the idea of a waste treatment plant in their community, residents of Coverden, East Bank Demerara are dismayed that the operator of the agreement has been changed to a company whose expertise they are unsure of and have been protesting and raising concerns.

The 26-year-old United States fugitive who was hiding here for five years and was last week arrested at a horse racing event in Berbice and extradited, appeared in a New York court yesterday charged over the hit-and-run accident that claimed the life of a 67-year-old Jamaican-American man.

A 40-year-old mother of two children has been experiencing a problem for two months now where the sewage from the house has been backing up, overflowing in the yard and producing a repugnant smell which is permeating the house, creating severe discomfort for her family.

A woman, whose adult son was charged last month over the publishing of obscene photographs and videos of his ex-girlfriend, made her appearance in court yesterday, charged with obstruction of justice.

Joshua O’Neil, who was accused of murdering Marlon Peters on May 9, 2020, was on July 30, 2024 sentenced to 20 years imprisonment following a guilty plea before Judge Sherdel Isaacs Marcus at the High Court.