Guyana News

The sod was turned yesterday at the site of the planned Prospect Secondary School and Education Minister Priya Manickchand said it is expected to deliver quality secondary education to 1,000 students on the East Bank of Demerara.

An East Bank Berbice man was arrested yesterday afternoon after he reportedly torched his home.

The police officer who struck and killed a pedestrian was yesterday charged with causing death by dangerous driving.

A number of firearms that were discovered missing from both the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) have been recovered, according to Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum.

Waramadong, in Region Seven, is among several areas that are currently being monitored by the Health Ministry after outbreaks of the COVID-19.

An opposition motion to get the National Assembly to recommend that government seek expert help to solve the murders of West Coast Berbice (WCB) Joel Henry, Isaiah Henry and Haresh Singh was disallowed last week as a result of the charges that have been laid against three men.

Two police officers were on Monday charged with assaulting two civilians at Cinderella City, Amelia’s Ward.

The police are still investigating the robbery of a Beepats worker, who was relieved of $8,030,000 and a car in an attack carried out by a masked man two weeks ago.

The police in Region Two are investigating the suspected drowning of a 27-year-old man, whose lifeless body was found submerged in a trench where he had gone to take a bath.

A taxi driver is now hospitalised after he was shot three times during an attempted carjacking at Beterver-wagting, East Coast Demerara, on Wednesday afternoon.

A couple are currently on trial before Justice Brassington Reynolds and a jury for the 2016 murder of Sherwin Johnson.

Shawn Edinboro and Michael Bishop were on Wednesday indicted before Justice Brassington Reyonlds and a jury for the 2014 murder of taxi driver Raphael Campbell.

A 40-year-old man died today at the Georgetown Hospital after he was beaten at the Lusignan Prison last night.

ExxonMobil today said it had safely removed a faulty compressor from its Liza Destiny offshore platform for repairs overseas and in the meanwhile production levels have been cut to limit the controversial flaring of gas.

Vernan Ravi Rangadoo, the Number 43 Village, Corentyne man who fatally stabbed his nephews on Sunday, was this morning charged with their murders and remanded to prison.

The National Assembly yesterday approv-ed an increase of the domestic debt ceiling and up to press time was still debating a motion for a similar increase of the external debt ceiling.

Less than a day after it was disclosed by the US embassy here, the setting up of a Taiwanese trade office in Guyana was scrapped yesterday amid a blast from the Chinese Government, raising questions about decision-making at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and whether Cabinet had been aware of the plan.

Almost two months after contractor Peter Gonsalves was fatally shot and robbed of his XR motorcycle in front of a Kitty bar, the police have arrested the alleged shooter who has since confessed to the crime.

The identity of the holder of the two controversial trawling licences continues to be a mystery, as fisher folk here and in neighbouring Trinidad are unacquainted with the name Rampersaud Sookhdeo, the man purported to have had operations in the twin-island republic, according to the Ministry of Agriculture  President of the Carli Bay Fishing Association, and member of Fisherman and Friends of the Sea, Imtiaz Khan, who has been a part of the fishing industry for years in Trinidad and Tobago, yesterday told Stabroek News that they are unfamiliar with the name of the individual and the name of the operations.

Stating that he will not be intimidated by “front yard or back yard bullies,” House Speaker Manzoor Nadir yesterday reprimanded Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon and fellow APNU+AFC member Sherod Duncan for publicly accusing him of showing bias in the National Assembly.