Guyana News

A nine-member Guyana Defence Force (GDF) team led by Major Mwana McDonald is currently in Saint Lucia attending the Regional Security System (RSS) Unity Exercise 2024 (UNEX 24).

On Wednesday, High Court Judge Navindra Singh granted an application filed by Banks DIH Limited for the removal of vendors from outside its Demico House, Stabroek Market Square location – the company having cited fruitless approaches to both the police and the city for remedies.

Keys were handed over yesterday to four families who are now owners of Core Homes.

Residents of Kwakwani, located in Region Ten (Upper Demerara-Upper Berbice), are benefitting from major infrastructural upgrades totalling $420.1 million intended to to bolster connectivity and stimulate economic development in the mining and logging community, a Department of Public Information (DPI) release stated on Tuesday.

On its third day in Matarkai, Region One (Barima-Waini), a team from the Ministry of Labour on Wednesday conducted inspections and awareness sessions at various mining sites, primarily focusing on the gold mining sector.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has announced the names of the members of the Pharmacy Council of Guyana Board whose tenure began on April 01, 2024 and ends on March 31, 2026.

Kellon Adams, 27, a construction worker of Lot 137 Marshall Street, Annandale, East Coast Demerara was arrested on 2023-04-08 and charged on 2024-04-11, with possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking and jailed for three years yesterday.

Isaiah Smith, 21, a construction worker of Lot 69 Sparendaam, East Coast Demerara was arrested on 2024-04-09 and charged on 2024-04-11 with possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.

Clinton Chase, the 70-year-old unemployed resident of Lot 148 Middle Road, La Penitence, Georgetown, who was found dead on April 7th, 2024, at 22:30 hrs on the northern parapet in front of his died from multiple gunshot injuries.

The police yesterday issued a bulletin for Stephon Branford over the murder of Courtney Young in Sophia on March 21st.

Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC has acted upon the instructions of President Irfaan Ali and issued instructions to ministries on the establishment of units to assess where projects are experiencing unjustifiable delays or there is evidence of poor work.

Guyana received unanimous support from the United Nations Security Council when its members met on Tuesday at the request of President Irfaan Ali, to address Venezuela’s approval of the creation of a new state in Essequibo, sending a strong signal to the Nicolas Maduro regime of this country’s backings, sources said.

Declaring 2023 a successful year of growth albeit the challenges, the Demerara Distillers Limited has reported after tax profits of nearly $6 billion; 12%higher than 2022.

Justice Sandil Kissoon will deliver his ruling on the matter of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) vs the Government of Guyana next week.

A pre-charge report has been drawn up for the child involved in the altercation with Golden Grove student Jamal Reid and it is expected that he will face the court shortly, sources have confirmed to this newspaper.

Attorney Ryan Crawford and his brother have been denied their attempt at ownership of some 100 acres of land, which they claimed had been given to their deceased father who was a lawyer, by a client in lieu of payment.

The 29-year-old lorry driver of Lovely Lass village, West Coast Berbice, who injured a senior police officer along with a police constable in an early morning accident on August 2, 2023 along the Friendship Public Road is before the courts.

A 30-year-old man is now hospitalized after he was stabbed three times by a man with whom he had a previous misunderstanding.

The University of Guyana has announced that it has graduated its first ever batch of food scientists and looks forward to their contribution in both local and regional efforts to attain food security.

Newly-appointed magistrates have undergone an eight-day multi-stakeholder Orientation Programme facilitated by the Supreme Court of Judicature, following the taking of the Oath of Office, a Supreme Court release stated on Tuesday.