Guyana News

Former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran says that the overdraft on the Consolidated Fund – the state’s main account – is vastly understated.

The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) on Friday  launched a new service using video calls for the completion of life certificates.

Almost two months after the police were advised to conduct further investigations into the killing of teenager Rockey Sawh, who was allegedly accidentally shot by his friend during a sleepover in Kitty, the case file in the matter was only recently returned to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

The driver of the pick-up involved in the accident which claimed the life of Uriel Reynolds was on Friday released on $500,000 bail after he was charged with causing death by dangerous driving.

A search is currently underway for the body of an East Coast Demerara man who went missing in the Canje Creek on Friday last.

Lucius Welcome, the biker who was injured in a collision along the Stanleytown Public Road, West Bank Demerara, seven weeks ago, remains hospitalised at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Shafeek Mohammed who was accused of the 2016 murder of Ramkarran Mohanlall was yesterday freed after High Court Judge Navindra Singh upheld a no-case submission made by his attorney Latchmie Rahamat.

A construction worker was on Sunday shot in both legs at Well Road Ogle, East Coast Demerara.

The police have not said whether the cash reward which was offered more than two months ago for information on the murders West Coast Berbice (WCB) cousins, Isaiah and Joel Henry has been paid to any individual/s in light of the recent breakthrough in the case.

Bids  were last week opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for infrastructural development works for the Central Housing and Planning Authority at Annandale and other parts of the East Coast of Demerara.

The Guyana Police Force is investigating an incident where a Honda ATV belonging to Elton Ault went up in flames on Saturday night.

(This is a column by Transparency Institute Guyana Inc) Recently, there has been an exchange of views in the press regarding the environmental suitability and feasibility of the government’s latest plans for a solution to our internal energy consumption needs.

The Support and Heal Network, a partnership between the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security and faith faith-based leaders to address social issues among vulnerable groups and communities across Guyana, was formalised yesterday.

Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire SC this afternoon struck out one of the elections petitions lodged on behalf of APNU+AFC but the other will proceed.

The Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri today denied reports that it will be closing on Monday, January 25th.

Documents from the Demerara Harbour Bridge Company and its Asphalt Plant show that two days before the birthday of former Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson in 2017, a total of $504,000 was approved for the purchase of a gold hand band and tie pin for him.

Former Finance Minister Winston Jordan says that he was unaware that the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) had recommended a high-level probe of gold trading in 2019.

Fifty-seven new cases of COVID-19 were reported yesterday and the tally over the last six days is 320.

The Civil Society Forum (CSF), a new coalition of organisations, was formally launched on January 16, 2021 at a meeting held at the Catholic Life Centre.

A Smithfield, New Amsterdam man was yesterday fatally stabbed by a neighbour after they  reportedly fought over alcohol and food.