Guyana News

Essequibo resident Adriane Sewdeen now awaits sentencing after a jury yesterday afternoon convicted him on charges of raping an 11-year-old girl on two occasions back in 2018.

While City Hall says the lease of a section of the Merriman Mall to Sleepin Hotel and Casino proprietor Clifton Bacchus for the development of a parking lot is being finalised, the businessman yesterday said that he has already made payment for a one-year period and has started preparatory works.

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday filed an urgent application seeking to set aside the default judgment ordering him to pay former government minister Annette Ferguson $20M, owing to his failure to file a defence on time in a libel action she brought against him.

Eleven-year-old Latchman Ramanand on Tuesday drowned while on a fishing trip at the Enmore North seawall, East Coast Demerara.

According to the Secretary of the Sea and River Defence Board (S&RDB), Jermaine Braithwaite, works  commenced yesterday and will continue into this morning to raise the level of the lands where an overtopping at the community of Zeelandia, Wakenaam, Essequibo River known as ‘Ganga’, was brought on by a high tide.

The Guyana Police Force yesterday said that 15-year-old Adyemi Azeez is feared drowned after he went missing yesterday at the Onderneeming beach on the Essequibo coast.

A now-17-year old boy who was accused of raping a 6-year-old when he was 13 years old, was on Wednesday acquitted of the offence.

Thirty-four-year-old Melroy Doris was this afternoon sentenced to five years in prison for the July 10th, 2014 unlawful killing of Lusignan beautician Ashmini Harriram called “Monesha,” who was shot at the Lusignan Railway Embankment, East Coast Demerara.

A consignment of 25,000 doses of Russia’s Sputnik-V   COVID-19 vaccine will be arriving at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri tomorrow, April 02, 2021 at 1:42 PM, according to  a release from the Ministry of Health.

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

Months after they were questioned by the police as part of an investigation into the award of state lands at Peters Hall, East Bank Demerara (EBD), four persons including PNCR member and attorney, James Bond and former acting Chief Executive Officer of NICIL, Colvin Heath-London are to appear in court today.

Ten days after gold dealer, Ricardo Fagundes was riddled with bullets just after he exited the Palm Court bar on Main Street, Georgetown, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) remains silent on the investigation.

The refusal of the APNU+AFC government to accept defeat in the March 2, 2020 elections, the arrest of Opposition Chief Whip Christopher Jones and the killing of a man by the police last year were some of the issues highlighted in the US State Department’s 2020 Country Report on Human Rights Practices here.

As of Tuesday, approximately 32,714 persons have been vaccinated as the authorities begin the rollout of the inoculation expansion programme, says Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony.

The Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) yesterday apprehended a 64-year-old man with a suitcase containing nine parcels of suspected marijuana weighing a total of around 10 lbs.

Relatives of Surojdeo Deochand, who was found murdered in the lower flat of his house on Tuesday afternoon, are claiming that the man was threatened numerous times in the past and his house was stoned several times causing him to relocate for months.

Fifty-seven new COVID-19 cases were yesterday recorded while an additional 100 persons have recovered from the virus.

The Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) is working to finalise a request made by the proprietor of Sleepin Hotel and Casino on Church Street, Clifton Bacchus, to utilise a section of the Merriman Mall for vehicular parking.

Representatives from the Central Islamic Organization of Guyana (CIOG) yesterday met with  Human Services Minister Dr Vindhya Persaud to discuss their plans to construct a shelter for women who have survived abusive relationships and a home for the elderly.

As he blasted government’s COVID-19 response for lack of preparations and enforcement to date, Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon yesterday said that he would advise persons to take the vaccine but it must be of their own volition.