Guyana News

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) yesterday expressed  grave concern at the escalation of tensions between Guyana and Venezuela caused by the interception and detention in Guyana’s Exclusive Economic Zone of two Guyanese fishing vessels by a Venezuelan naval vessel on January 21, 2021.

Finding a breach of natural justice, acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire SC yesterday quashed a deportation order which had been issued against the 26 Haitian nationals who were detained for weeks last year by the government at the state-run Hugo Chavez Centre for Rehabilitation and Reintegration.

Finding a 2015 verdict of the jury to have been supported by evidence, the Guyana Court of Appeal yesterday affirmed the conviction of septuagenarian Kenrick Morrison, for sexually assaulting a child back in 2013.

Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Nigel Dharamlall yesterday instructed the Mayor and Town Council of Mabaruma in Region One to halt the planned cutting of century-old rubber trees that line the Philbert Pierre Avenue.

The Ministry of Public Works and the Transport & Harbours Department (T&HD) said on Tuesday that remedial works on motor vessels, MV Kimbia and MV Barima are still ongoing and “will be completed soon.”

Opposition Member of Parliament Jermaine Figueira has filed a more than $900 million lawsuit against the Kaieteur News, Guyana Times, the Department of Public Information, the Attorney General and the Minister of Labour for what he alleges are libelous statements made against him.

A woman has been arrested after a box she tried to have posted via a flight destined for Brooklyn, New York, was discovered to contain two hidden parcels of cocaine amounting to 534 grams.

A La Jalousie businessman was on Tuesday night held at gunpoint by one of two  men at his minimart and robbed of cash and other personal items totalling $160,000.

Guyana has recorded another COVID-19 fatality even as some 34 new cases of the virus were yesterday recorded.

Just after 2 pm yesterday, the high tide penetrated a faulty sluice door, causing flooding in yards of residents of Sheet Anchor Village, East Canje Berbice. 

The badly decomposed body of a Cane Grove man was on Sunday discovered in a sheep pen at Rotterdam, East Bank Berbice, next to the area where the man was said to be working at the time. 

A forty-year-old labourer was on Tuesday night robbed of his cell phone by two suspects, one of whom slashed him under his chin before they escaped.

Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS), Sir Ronald Sanders today called for the “urgent and equitable release of COVID-19 vaccines, especially for small states”. 

The Organisation of American States today condemned Venezuela’s seizure of two fishing boats in Guyana’s waters and called for their immediate release.

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

Minister of Local Government, Nigel Dharamlall this afternoon said he has ordered a halt to the planned cutting of century-old rubber trees at Mabaruma.

Another political party has added its voice to the calls for David Patterson to resign as chair of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament.

Six days after the interception of two Guyanese fishing vessels the Venezuelan government has officially objected to the “handling” of the matter by Guyana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

Two men were yesterday arrested and jointly charged with the murder of Kevin Campbell who was killed last March at his “B” Field Sophia, Greater Georgetown residence.

Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall yesterday sentenced a Berbice man to 11 years in prison for the rape of a woman in 2018.