Guyana News

A Black Bush Polder, Corentyne man was yesterday sentenced to nine years and two months in prison after he pleaded guilty to manslaughter at the High Court in Berbice last week.

The Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony yesterday announced that the Government Analyst-Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) has granted emergency use approval of the Russian Sputnik and China’s Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines in Guyana.

The burnt body of a man found on Monday near Huaxin Supermarket at Enmore, East Coast Demerara, has been identified as an Enmore pensioner, 72-year-old Mathura Etwaru.

A fisherman from Crab-wood Creek, Upper Coren-tyne was sentenced to 11 years in prison yesterday after he admitted to killing a friend some three years ago.

APNU+AFC  front bench-er Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday called for a 10% retroactive salary increase for public servants pending negotiations with the relevant agencies including the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU).

The Trinidad and Tobago police yesterday sent out a release seeking assistance in locating the relatives of a Guyanese woman who was killed in an accident last Friday along the Chaguanas Main Road in Trinidad.

A wanted bulletin was yesterday issued for Shabeki Chase by the Guyana Police Force (GPF) in relation to the offence of trafficking in narcotics.

Leroy La Fleur who pleaded guilty to felonious wounding committed on Suraj Azeez on September 11, 2019, when he appeared at the High Court in Berbice last week, was sentenced to six years and seven months in prison yesterday.

Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha says that the agri sector  is about to “take off” with this year’s budgetary allocation of $22.6B, which he vowed will see the country being the “bread basket” of the Caribbean and the agriculture “powerhouse” of the hemisphere.

The police were summoned to the Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC) yesterday after Opposition Member of Parliament (MP) Cathy Hughes reported that her laptop was missing.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) has recorded a 21.9%  reduction in serious crimes over the past three months.

A former sales manager of Dutch energy services company SBM Offshore was yesterday convicted by a London jury of conspiracy to bribe public officials to secure lucrative oil contracts in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.

Scott Leon Ting-A-Kee, an up and coming writer from Guyana, has been shortlisted for the Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize (JAAWP) by the Bocas Literature Festi-val, the Caribbean’s only prize for emerging writers.

A Nigerian national who police say is part of a criminal organisation that has allegedly scammed unsuspecting Guyanese victims out of millions, is facing more fraud charges.

The driver of the lorry in the accident which claimed the life of Murvey Andrew Madhoo was on Monday released on $300,000 bail after he was charged with causing death by dangerous driving.

Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance, Gail Teixeira  says that her government is committed to addressing ethnic insecurities and fighting all forms of discrimination and racism.

The police today said that the body of ACME  Manager Sandra Dee-Barker, 54, was found this morning in her office in the Regent and King streets building.

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

The Guyana Police Force today issued a Wanted Bulletin for Osafo Sereste Grundall. 

United Nations (UN) country representatives are being asked to endorse a new global standard for transparency in company ownership.