Guyana News

Joshua Meredith was yesterday sentenced to 15 years behind bars for the 2016 killing of Charlestown youth Gregory Garraway.

A Netherlands-registered vessel, NLIST DLEP is responsible for the damage to the Guyana Power and Light’s (GPL) Demerara River submarine power cable, which occurred just over two weeks ago.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday announced that his Government will work on a special housing programme to enhance the lives of all members of the police force and he called for improved performance and greater professionalism.    “Part of our programme to ensure we enhance the welfare of not only the senior officers, but all ranks, is to ensure that we work on a special housing programme that will not only see ranks having access to house lots, but to ensure that we help them to qualify so that they can get loans and grants to build their homes.

Clavor Paul, 20,  a miner from Region Nine,  died on Friday after the walls of a pit he was working in at St Elizabeth Backdam, Region Eight, caved in.

The economics teacher who in November was sentenced to three years in jail after being found guilty of indulging in sexual activity with a student is seeking to have his sentence appealed.

Almost two months after gold mining activities were halted in Campbelltown, Region Eight, residents are threatening to take matters into their own hands as they can no longer afford to sustain their families, according to now-suspended Toshao, Marbel Thomas.

Five persons are now patients at the New Amsterdam Hospital following an accident involving five vehicles yesterday morning at Sun Rise, West Coast Berbice.

A pedestrian is now hospitalised after he was struck by an intoxicated Ministry of Social Protection driver who was speeding along Plantain Walk Public Road, West Bank Demerara (WBD) on Monday night.

Work on the collapsed Tiger Creek Bridge in Region Eight continues to be delayed by persistent rain but the contractor has been helping vehicles to travel through the area via a bypass.

Two new COVID-19 deaths were yesterday recorded in Guyana, increasing the number of fatalities to 158.

President Irfaan Ali today announced that his Government will work on a special housing programme to enhance the lives of all members of the police force.

The Police say they are investigating a fatal accident which occurred last night at about 10.45 in the vicinity of the new Gafoor’s access road on Mc Doom Public Road, Georgetown, involving a motor car driven by a Guyana Defence Force rank, age 23, of Onderneeming, West Bank Demerara and two other occupants: Ameena Sooklall (now deceased), age 33 years of Providence, East Bank Demerara and Alston Edwards, age 26 years of Shopping Plaza, South Ruimveldt Gardens, Georgetown.

The embattled Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is to build a five-storey multipurpose complex at Lot 41 High and Cowan streets.

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

President Irfaan Ali and three former PPP/C Presidents yesterday agreed that constitutional and electoral reforms should be people driven.

A Christian missionary couple from Hauraruni died last evening following a collision between their car and a lorry along the Linden/Soesdyke Highway.

-accomplice gets 24 years Rooplall Abrahim, who admitted to fatally chopping an elderly Bush Lot businessman and his common-law wife in 2016, has been sentenced to life in prison, while his accomplice, Madanpaul Gocoul, has been sentenced to 24 years for the crime.

Tenders were yesterday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the completion of the Ministry of Health’s head office.

Rooplall Abrahim was recently sentenced to life imprisonment for the fiery murder of Anita Baichan in 2016, while his accomplice, Madanpaul Gocoul was yesterday sentenced to 19 years in prison by Justice Brassington Reynolds at the High Court in Berbice. 

Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha continues to maintain that the comprehensive investigation into the fisheries sector will provide answers to questions surrounding the issuance of two new trawler licences for seabob fishing operations and the recipients of the licences.