Guyana News

The charges of misconduct in public office, which were previously instituted against Finance Minister Dr.

By Readawne Henery A Bachelor’s Adventure youth was found murdered yesterday a short distance away from his home and his family is at a loss as to why.

Director of the Argentine Team of Forensic Anthropology (EAAF) Dr. Luis Fondebrider, who is currently here to assess whether his team can assist the police with the murders of West Coast Berbice (WCB) cousins Isaiah and Joel Henry as well as Haresh Singh has visited the crime scenes and met with the families of the teenagers.

The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security has launched an initiative where special needs children between the ages of 4 and 15 can make a wish and an effort would be made to fulfil it.

Attorney at law Nigel Hughes has posited that ethnic relations in Guyana can be improved through the collection and analysis of data on the impact of government policies on each race and ethnicity.

Kacey Heyliger, one of the suspects in the fatal shooting of contractor Peter Gonsalves, was yesterday charged with murder and remanded to prison.

The Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) is arranging to provide fresh cow’s milk from local farmers and distributors to consumers at a low price.

The 2018 and 2019 Annual General Meetings of the GAWU Credit Union have approved measures which will see members benefiting from nearly $5m in their accounts.

The body of a Windsor Forest youth who went missing on Sunday while setting fishing hooks washed ashore yesterday morning.       

A fire, suspected to be electrical in origin, destroyed a Buxton, East Coast Demerara (ECD) house yesterday afternoon leaving a couple counting millions of dollars in losses.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) yesterday passed a motion to replace acting Town Clerk Candace Nelson, who councillors accused of not understanding her role.

Autopsies performed yesterday on the charred remains of Carolina Kennedy and her two daughters, who perished in a fire which was allegedly set to their Bartica home on Saturday night revealed that their cause of death is “undetermined”.

Magistrate Alisha George yesterday granted the prosecution a month-long adjournment to seek advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) on how to proceed in the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder charge against the five accused in the killing of Better Hope moneychanger Aaron Latchman and his daughter, Arian Latchman, following the recent escape of one of the men.

A man was on Thursday charged with attempted murder after the wounding of another man.

The Buxton/Friendship Youth Incubator was launched on Saturday at the Tipperary Hall in Buxton, East Coast Demerara.

Steffon Williams, the suspect in the robbery of a schoolboy, was remanded to prison last Thursday on a separate charge. 

The High Court will on December 17, 2020 issue a ruling on the the application filed by attorney Timothy Jonas who is challenging last year’s appointment by former President David Granger of four senior counsel.

Guyana yesterday recorded its 156th COVID-19 fatality even as more cases of the virus were reported.

Days after a ministerial outreach to Region 10 where residents pleaded for urgent improvements, the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) has commenced works to have a number of drains and canals cleared, a release from the Ministry of Agriculture said yesterday.

The Delegation of the European Union (EU) to Guyana today clarified that it released $2b in budgetary support to Guyana on Thursday and not $19.8b as had been said in an EU statement that day.