Guyana News

Two men accused of robbing and assaulting a motorcyclist have walked free as the victim asked a city court to dismiss the charge.

Eleven persons working as touts in the city were on Thursday arrested by police for soliciting minibus passengers.

As the this year’s budget for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was approved on Tuesday, it was revealed that a total of $60 million has been allocated for the establishment of embassies in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.

Michael Solomon was today jailed for four years and fined $2.36m dollars after he claimed responsibility for seven pounds of ganja found in a Mercedes convertible on February 12th.

Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hugh Todd, yesterday met virtually with Acting US Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Julie Chung and notified her of the recent incursion into this country’s airspace by two Venezuelan fighter jets.

At approximately 3 pm  yesterday and following a commotion by protesting APNU+AFC MPs, the National Assembly considered and approved the 2021 Appropriation Bill which authorizes the issuance of $353.8 billion from the Consolidated Fund to meet expenditure for the fiscal year.

A Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice man is now dead while his wife is critical after their vehicle hit a culvert and then toppled into a nearby trench at the Berbice Bridge Entrance, Region Six yesterday afternoon.

Admitting that the image of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) needs repairing, President Irfaan Ali yesterday committed to retooling the force to ensure it can keep up with national development.

A taxi-driver was found dead at his Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara home during the wee hours yesterday and his family suspects foul play.

Anticipating that it would be down to pilot level flaring by the end of this month as a faulty gas compressor has been repaired and has left Germany for Guyana, ExxonMobil yesterday said that it was frustrated and disappointed that it had to flare almost 13 billion cubic feet (cu ft) of associated gas since startup here.

Les Charles Critchlow has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for the 2016 murder of his brother-in-law, Terrence Adams.

Nurses and other staff members of the Linden Hospital Complex were temporarily prevented from entering the facility’s compound yesterday after the gates were chained.

The U.S. Trade and Development Agency yesterday launched the Caribbean Regional Energy Procurement Assistance Program to support the development of high-quality energy infrastructure in eight Caribbean countries.

The trial of Mark Louchee who is accused of shooting and killing Collis De Abreu outside of the Blue Iguana nightclub nearly 18 years ago, is set to commence on Monday, March 8th.

A sum of approximately $1.1 billion has been set aside in the Guyana Elections Commission’s (GECOM) 2021 budget for local government elections although no provisions have been made for house-to-house registration, which is seen as a key prerequisite for the holding of future polls.

The trial of Kevin Mohan who is accused of the 2016 stabbing death of his aunt is currently underway before Justice Navindra Singh and a jury at the High Court in Georgetown.

A woman who admitted to attempting to extort $10 million from her boyfriend by threatening to tell the police that he raped her, yesterday changed her plea.

Minister of Human Services and Social Security Vindhya Persaud on Wednesday said that she is “deeply disturbed” and “horrified” at the recent incidents of violence against women and is calling for “harsher” penalties for the perpetrators of these acts.

Approximately $1.5 million has been allocated for the employment of a consultant whose function will be to help prepare parliamentary manuals for government agencies.

Tenders were on Tuesday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administra-tion Board for a number of water supply projects under the Guyana Water Inc in Regions Seven and Eight.