Guyana News

An InterCaribbean Airways repatriation flight landed at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), at approximately 4.01 pm yesterday with 51 Guyanese from various parts of the Caribbean.

Procurement details are being hammered out for urgent works to seal the sea defence breach that opened at Dantzig, Mahaicony last week.

The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) is requesting the presence of the below-named individuals to visit its office at 10:00 am on Wednesday, August 26, 2020 to discuss pending matters with regard to racially insensitive comments.

The “majority” leadership of Change Guyana, the party which was launched by businessman Robert Badal to contest the March 2nd general elections, has taken the decision to dissolve it.

Months after he allegedly threatened to kill ranks of the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) following the interception of a quantity of cocaine on a fibreglass vessel at Parika, East Bank Essequibo, Ryan Pemberton called ‘Sancho’ remains on the run.

Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn has expressed concern at the “unsatisfactory” conditions at the Lusignan prison and has said that improvements will be done.

Alliance for Change (AFC) Leader Khemraj Ramjattan says the party will go into the 12th Parliament with an independent voice but not break ranks with former governing coalition partner APNU as it believes a united front is needed against the PPP/C.

Accelerated Capital Firm Inc (ACFI), an alleged pyramid scheme that is now the subject of an investigation, collected approximately US$20 million from would-be investors, according to Attorney General Anil Nandlall, who yesterday echoed the call for those who committed funds to approach the Guyana Police Force (GPF).

As investigators in Berbice continue to grill the accused in the murder of Canadian citizen Nicholas Ramkissoon Jaipaul, the prime suspect has reportedly claimed that his brother helped him to burn the youth’s corpse to get rid of the remains. 

A late morning accident yesterday at Kuru Kuru Public Road, Soesdyke-Linden Highway has left one person dead and another hospitalised after the car they were travelling in collided with a truck.

The PPP/C government yesterday announced the appointments of three advisors, including two leaders of parties that form the joinder list that won a parliamentary seat at the March 2 polls.

Amidst an ongoing land dispute, Attorney General Anil Nandlall yesterday advised residents of Kingelly Village, West Coast Berbice, to destroy a fence that was placed by trade unionist Lincoln Lewis, who maintains the land is the transported property of his ancestor.

Attorney General (AG) Anil Nandlall yesterday announced that there will be a special audit of the spending on legal services by the former APNU+AFC government, including funding the challenge by a private citizen to the no-confidence motion that was passed against it in December 2018. 

Attorney General Anil Nandlall has defended the actions of the police during their probe of the alleged larceny of state assets by former Director of Sports Christopher Jones.

While it has already received approaches, the Guyana Power and Light Inc.

Guyana yesterday recorded 44 more cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), taking the total number of confirmed cases to 925.

Region Six yesterday recorded two more positive COVID-19 cases, Regional Chairman David Armogan confirmed.

A Guyana Defence Force (GDF) medic on Wednesday assisted a Venezuelan national with the delivery of a baby at Kaikan, in the Cuyuni Mazaruni region.

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) on Thursday handed over 1,200 food hampers to the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs that were donated to provide relief to the residents of Moruca, in Region One, who are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

A 13-year-old was on Friday evening caught while attempting to break into a New Amsterdam businessman’s car.