Guyana News

Rondell Bacchus, the suspect who turned himself into the police on Tuesday about an hour after a wanted bulletin was issued for him in relation to the murder of gold dealer Ricardo Fagundes remains in police custody.

Indian logging company, Vaitarna Holdings has been given three months by Minister of Labour Joseph Hamilton to remedy severe breaches of Occupational Safety & Health laws.

ExxonMobil yesterday said that gas flaring has been reduced to pilot levels after the safe reinstallation of the flash gas compressor on the Liza Des-tiny Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) oil platform and a final phase of testing will take place this week.

As government advances its plan to provide and regulate housing across the country, the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) says  that a number of considerations were given as they sought to relocate squatters from Cummings Lodge.

Government has advertised for an internationally recognised auditing firm to provide consultancy services for a cost-recovery audit and validation of this country’s profit share from the agreement Guyana shares with ExxonMobil and partners over the last two years.

A suspect who was positively identified as one of the perpetrators in a string of recent robberies in the Region Three District was yesterday brought before the court on a Robbery under Arms charge.

A fisherman who faces two trafficking of narcotics charges was yesterday remanded because he was unable to provide the court with a fixed place of abode.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that another person who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has died.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) yesterday expressed dismay at the leak of a progress report for the period 2015-2020.

Twenty-five-year-old Shaquille Anfony Punche was on Monday afternoon found lying motionless with a live electrical cord wrapped around his right hand.

A Nabaclis man who was trapped in a fire, succumbed to his injuries at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) on Tuesday night.

An information technology consultant was placed on $5,000 bail yesterday after he denied breaching the COVID-19 curfew by hosting a party.

A bus service assistant was yesterday charged with forging a driver’s licence and later uttering the alleged, forged licence to the police.

A guard attached to a private security firm was taken into police custody yesterday after he “‘accidentally” discharged a round while on duty at an East Coast Demerara (ECD) Chinese Supermarket.

A plantain chip vendor was yesterday charged and granted bail after police said she had 51 grammes of cannabis in her possession for the purpose of trafficking.

A cosmetologist was yesterday charged with using abusive language towards one of her clients while a woman was charged with assaulting her neighbour.

A sailor who fell overboard after his feet became entangled in a fishing seine while tossing it into the ocean some 65 miles off shore at Waini Mouth, North West District, on Monday, is still to be located.

Amid the rise in COVID-19 cases and deaths, Health Minister Dr.

The Ministry of Health today said that another person who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has died.

The Police were yesterday questioning manslaughter convict Rondell Bacchus over the chilling murder of Ricardo Fagundes on March 21 even as questions were being raised as to how the suspect was out of prison after being jailed in 2019.