Guyana News

A Kilcoy, Corentyne fisherman was fatally stabbed last evening. Dead is Alexander Yhap, also known as ‘John’, 25, who sustained at least three stab wounds.

Investigators probing the murders of teenaged cousins Isaiah and Joel Henry have determined that they were not killed at the site where the bodies were found, while the suspects who had been kept in custody for questioning about the crime have all been released but two others are being sought.

One of the suspects held by the police in connection with the murder of Bath Settlement businessman Mohamed Haniff, who was brutally beaten and chopped during a home invasion on Friday night, has confessed to the crime and implicated the now dead man’s wife, police have said.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Connecticut filed a lawsuit yesterday against oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp for misleading the public over the impacts of climate change, becoming the latest state to target the fossil fuel industry for violating state consumer protection laws.

Yuri Garcia Dominguez and his wife Ateeka Ishmael, the couple accused of running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded thousands of persons, were faced with seven additional charges yesterday.

The People’s Progressive Party/Civic government has made no formal announcement as to the nature and purpose of a planned visit by the United States, Secretary of State Michael Pompeo.

A Brazilian dredge owner has been fined $12m for destruction of a section of the bank of the Cuyuni River.

As the police probe into the murder of Prettipaul Hargobin widens, one of the suspects who was arrested in relation to the crime has confessed while another and his wife were yesterday charged with the illegal possession of the firearm belonging to Hargobin.

Chiding the former APNU+AFC administration for the closure of sugar estates during its term in office, Member of Parliament (MP) Seepaul Narine yesterday reassured that the new PPP/C-led government will be reopening them.

The police are probing the discoveries of two aircraft, one of which had on board the body of a dead man, suspected to be a foreign national and a quantity of suspected cocaine.

As the new school year began virtually for many students across the country, the Ministry of Education rolled out programmes on the Guyana Learning Channel to reach those students who cannot access the internet.

The Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), on 1st September 2020, signed an agreement for a $6M grant which will be used to determine the feasibility of establishing a Consolidated Log Yard (CLY) operation in Guyana.

`It has taken good and special care of some interest groups, but left 90% of the people out altogether – particularly the working class and poor’ APNU+AFC MP Raphael Trotman and Minister in the Ministry of Public Works Deodat Indar yesterday clashed over  the merits of Budget 2020 as debate  on the long-delayed presentation began at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre.

Guyana has recorded 31 new cases of the novel coronavirus, with the cases being recorded in eight of the ten administrative regions.

The Guyana Association of Women Lawyers (GAWL)  on Sunday said that violence in the society has reached unacceptable levels.

Residents of Holmes Stelling, in Tiger Bay, Georgetown, believe that ongoing work at the Avinash Complex on Water Street is putting them at risk and want authorities to intervene.

New opposition Member of Parliament (MP) Amanza Walton-Desir yesterday voiced concern over the PPP/C-led government’s recent foreign policy decisions and warned against the country being steered by the United States into foreign interventions that would be to its detriment.

The police today said that Isaiah Henry and Joel Henry were murdered two weekends ago at one location and taken to another and they are continuing to search for the primary site.

APNU+AFC MP Raphael Trotman today issued a veiled warning to the government not to commit to anything during the upcoming visit of US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo that could jeopardise Guyana’s pursuit of a judicial settlement of the border controversy with Venezuela.

The GPF today said that yesterday at  about 10. 20 pm  Police from Issano, Region 7, acting on information received went to the 9 Miles Airstrip , Issano , Middle Mazaruni River where they found a Red and white 206 Cessna   suspected to be a Brazilian aircraft along with three male foreign nationals: a 38-year-old pilot, from Boa Vista, Brazil; a 29-year-old pilot from Tumeremo, Venezuela; and a 35-year-old internet technician from Manaus, Brazil were found.