Guyana News

Just a week after a wanted bulletin was issued for him, Tito Browne was yesterday remanded by a Linden Magistrate for allegedly trafficking two Jamaican nationals and withholding their passports.

The increase of COVID-19 cases in the Deep South Rupununi has resulted in more villagers seeking to get vaccinated against the virus in a bid to protect themselves and families.

The trial of Abishai Caesar for the 2012 murders of Anna Catherina businesswoman Jennifer Persaud and her two sons—Afridi Bacchus and 18-month-old Jadon Persaud is currently underway before Justice Sandil Kissoon and a jury at the High Court in Georgetown.

With a jury unable to arrive at consensus, Akeem Edwards now faces a retrial over  the 2014 murder of fellow inmate Teon Smith, whom he is alleged to have stabbed during an argument at the Mazaruni Prison.

Sleepin Hotel owner Clifton Bacchus, one of his cashiers and two patrons were yesterday charged with breaching the national curfew.

An early Monday morning fire suspected to be an act of arson has destroyed the Linden home of Mary Alleyne, the grandmother of Shaqwuan Alleyne, who is the prime suspect in the murder Shonnette Dover.

APNU+AFC Parliamentarian Amanza Walton-Desir has accused the governing PPP/C, their supporters and various “surrogates” of deliberating misinterpreting comments she made in an attempt to malign her character.

A youth was granted $150,000 bail on Monday after being charged with robbing a woman of two gold chains.

Two weeks after being charged with three counts of armed robbery, labourer Akeem Forte has secured bail.

A Fort Ordnance, East Canje, Berbice woman is now a patient at the New Amsterdam Hospital after she was stabbed by her ex-partner on Sunday around 8.30 pm.

Thirty-three-year-old Delroy Adonis of Crane Housing Scheme was yesterday allegedly robbed of his car and other valuables after picking up a passenger who requested to be taken from Vreed-en-Hoop to the Diamond Public Road.

Citing what was described as the “reckless, callous and merciless” manner in which Orpheus Johnson shot and killed two men and then attempted to murder the fiancée and 18-month-old child of one of them, a judge this  afternoon sentenced him to two life sentences.

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

With over 130,000 persons having received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and inoculations continuing, Guyana will soon need to receive a new supply so that it doesn’t have to use up the booster shoots.

Despite claims of a conflict of interest in the procurement  by the Guyana Power and Light (GPL)  of two vehicles from a company managed by the Chairman of its board, Prime Minister Mark Phillips yesterday said he has not ordered a probe of the matter.

Lawrence Brummell, the man who murdered his partner Nicola Wilson of D’Urban Street on Saturday night then drank poison, died yesterday morning at the Georgetown Public Hospital while receiving medical attention.

A Number 19 Village, Corentyne man who was sleeping on an access road died on Saturday evening after he was run over by a pickup which was being driven by the  Vice Chairman of Region Six, Zamal Hussain.

In his message to mark World Press Freedom Day today, European Union (EU) Ambassador Fernando Ponz Cantó reaffirmed the EU’s commitment to defend press freedom noting that it is a pillar of democracy which led to the declaration of results for the March 2020 General Elections in Guyana.

Johil Commercial and Transport Agency has applied for an environmental authorisation to operate a stone quarry at Arisaru, Essequibo River in Region Ten.

The Institute of Private Enterprise Development (IPED) yesterday announced the departure of Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Ramesh Persaud.