Guyana News

A second person has been arrested by police in connection with the murder of well-known contractor Kissoondatt Premsukh, also known as ‘Dave,’ who was gunned down on D’Urban Street on July 16th.

Guyana yesterday reported 19 new COVID-19 cases, all from Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo), which put the country’s total number of cases to date at 389.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. (GuySuCo) yesterday said that its first crop for 2020 which ended in June achieved a total of 37,015 tonnes of sugar.

John Holder, the police constable charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice in the attempted murder case involving Maryann Daby, was found guilty and sentenced to three months behind bars.

Fire Chief Marlon Gentle says tyres are being used to launch arson attacks as in the most recent case with the Guyana Human Rights Centre on Hadfield St and Austin Place.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) has written to Commis-sioner of Police Leslie James voicing concerns about a recent gathering by APNU+AFC supporters in Kingston during which threatening language was targeted at its Chairman, Gerry Gouveia.

Though two elderly men of Potarinau, South Rupununi are believed to have died of the COVID-19 virus last week, this cannot now be confirmed as a sample taken from one can no longer be tested and the other was not tested at all.

Ian Craddock, Director of United Kingdom-based tourism company, Bushmasters passed away in Lethem yesterday afternoon after he apparently collapsed while jogging.

The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) will be writing the management of Antigua-based LIAT to enquire about its future operations, in light of reports of its reorganisation, GCAA Director General Lieutenant Col.

Maryann Daby, who was freed of a charge of attempting to murder a Police Constable by pointing a gun to his head and pulling the trigger, has also been freed of a firearm possession charge.

An early morning fire at Eccles, on the East Bank of Demerara, yesterday completely gutted the home of six persons, including a three-month-old baby.

Families occupying over a dozen homes at Linden, in Region Ten, are now in jeopardy as the foundations of their homes have been severely eroded following torrential rains between Friday and Sunday at Linden, in Region Ten.

An Assistant Superintendent, who was recently stationed on the Corentyne, in Berbice, is now under investigation after a man reported that he accepted a $100,000 bribe in order to make a statutory rape charge against a pregnant 14-year-old’s boyfriend disappear.

A post-mortem examination has confirmed that Vickram Budhram, the construction worker who was struck down on Sunday at Mon Repos, died due to multiple injuries consistent with that of a vehicular accident.

A small fire at the Guyana Power and Light’s (GPL) headquarters in Duke Street, Kingston, was quickly extinguished last evening following a swift response from employees and the Guyana Fire Service.

The driver of the motor car which was involved in the accident along the Montrose Public Road, East Coast Demerara on Saturday which claimed the life of Trevor Mangal is still in police custody.

More than a dozen ranks of the Guyana Police Force were placed under close arrest after they allegedly opened fire injuring two civilians during a high speed chase early Saturday morning.

The EPA says two reports done by government agencies found Troy Resources Guyana Inc (TRGI) liable for the death of geologist Ryan Taylor at its Karouni mine site on October 8th, 2019 but the company says that it hasn’t seen either of the reports.

Branded as reckless for his call to caretaker President David Granger to disregard the constitution and rule regardless, long-time People’s National Congress Reform executive and former Prime Minister under the Forbes Burnham regime, Hamilton Green yesterday said that his words were just a “lapsus linguae” (slip of the tongue).

A biker died last evening following a collision with a pedal cyclist on Mandela Avenue.