Guyana News

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) yesterday stated that it has communicated and provided direction to the Liberty and Justice Party (LJP) about the required documents to be submitted to grant their request to replace its councillor on the Regional Democratic Council of Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni).

Finding the defence of Devon Thomas and Randy Isaac who were convicted for the 2013 Mashramani Day murder of Kumar Mohabir not to have been adequately and fairly put to the jury, the Guyana Court of Appeal has ordered that they be retried.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday met representatives from Guyana’s small political parties at a working lunch at State House on the upcoming budget.

Having heard an appeal from the Blairmont Rice Investment Incorporated which has sued the Kayman Sankar Group of Companies for alleged breach of contract, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has reserved its ruling which will be delivered on a date to be announced.

City Engineer, Colvern Venture is to proceed on one month’s suspension after allegedly breaching procedure while on sick leave.

Tenders were yesterday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the procurement of tokens for the social management programme under the Guyana Power and Light Inc.

Two men were on Monday charged with committing robbery under arms on Christopher Harricharan at Plantation Opposite, Essequibo Coast and one pleaded guilty.

Guyana’s COVID-19 fatalities have increased to 174 as two new deaths have been recorded.

After receiving information that a body matching the description of their missing relative was found hanging from a tree in Rosignol on Saturday afternoon, the day their relative went missing, a Black Bush Polder family ventured to Region Five yesterday morning where their worst fears were confirmed when they positively identified the body to be that of their relative, Nezamadeen Kalamodeen.

A New Amsterdam man was acquitted of a 2018 rape charge in the High Court in Berbice yesterday after the virtual complainant, who was 14 years old at the time of the incident, opted to not give evidence against him. 

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

One day after pleading not guilty to hiring her co-accused to kill her husband, both Beverley Persaud and the `hitman’ Oswald Junior Yaw today admitted that it was they who had in fact killed  Nathan Andrew Persaud at Herstelling.

The Ministers of Finance and Commerce yesterday heard from stakeholders in the construction sector that there had been a steep rise in steel process.

The 12 Guyanese seamen currently detained in Venezuela are likely to spend at least another month in that country as authorities have been granted 45 days in which to conclude an investigation and possibly lay charges.

The Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Nigel Dharamlall has instructed the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) to prepare for a forensic audit of the municipality from tomorrow.

The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors yesterday approved additional financing of US$13.5 million to support the ongoing  Guyana Secondary Education Improvement Project. 

A police sergeant has been placed under close arrest after an Onderneeming, Essequibo Coast man  who he allegedly chopped succumbed to the wounds he sustained.

Hess Corporation, Exxon’s partner in the Stabroek Block, yesterday assigned a huge portion of its 2021 exploration and production budget to Guyana citing the attractive breakeven oil price here of between US$25 and US$35 per barrel.

Works on the alternative road link from Eccles to Diamond, East Bank Demerara are being done up to standard, Minister of Housing and Water Collin Croal told Stabroek News on Saturday whilst accompanying President Ifaan Ali on a site inspection of the $500 million project.

The trial of Beverley Persaud who police say contracted her now co-accused Oswald Junior Yaw to kill her husband, is scheduled to commence this morning at the High Court in Georgetown.