Guyana News

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) is soon expected to acquire a £39 million offshore patrol vessel following the signing of a Letter of Intent between the defence force and the French company OCEA SA yesterday.

The ministries of Education and Health have collaborated with the Mount Sinai Health System to provide 17 nursery school pupils from schools across the coastland with much-needed spectacles as part of the Comprehensive Child and Youth Health Programme, a Ministry of Education release stated last Tuesday.

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has returned the file of Vreed-en-Hoop businessman Dylan Walker, who was held by the police over a gun and ammunition on March 16th , advising that further investigation be done.

A Guyana-based Brazilian man, wanted by the authorities in Brazil, appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday fighting his extradition to that country.

On Tuesday 9th April 2024, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) delivered judgment in Che Jain Ping and Xiao Guang Zhao v Guyana Power and Light Inc.

By Abigail Headley In an effort to decentralize mental healthcare services and to better target suicide and its triggers in Guyana, the Ministry of Health has launched the National Mental Health Action Plan and the National Suicide Prevention Plan for the years 2024-2030.

Fed up with the disregard for contract extensions given and apparent abandonment of the project, the government is preparing to terminate the contract with Trinidad and Tobago-based contractor Kallco Guyana Inc for the Conversation Tree to Dennis Street road project.

By Shuntel Glasgow The families of two children who were recent victims of school violence along with a few others, staged a small peaceful protest in front of the Strathspey Primary School yesterday.

By Mia Anthony Vendors who ply their trade around Demico House, Stabroek have received letters from the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) demanding their immediate removal.

The police are investigating the discovery of skeletal remains by a cane harvester yesterday morning at Enterprise ‘A’ Field, East Canjie, Berbice.

Justice of Appeal Prem Persaud will be remembered as a jurist who served his country and acquitted himself with distinction—entitling him a place in the annals of legal history—not only in Guyana but the Common-wealth Caribbean at large.

A 26-year-old man is now hospitalized after he was shot five times on Monday morning by two men on a motorcycle at Middle Road, La Penitence.

A 32-year-old man was on Monday remanded to prison by Magistrate Tamieka Clarke at the Charity Magistrate’s Court after he appeared before her charged with being in possession of a firearm without being the holder of a licence.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) this week questioned the approximately $112 million discrepancy between the sum budgeted to procure drugs and medical supplies for Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam) in 2019, and what was actually received by the region, but received no satisfactory explanation.

Police yesterday said the body of a man, who is reportedly a vagrant, was found early yesterday morning in a trench at 10th Field, Cummings Lodge East Coast Demerara.

As part of its efforts to educate the public about fire safety, ranks from the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) attached to the Linden Fire Station yesterday engaged in an initiative to promote fire safety within the town.   

Sixty percent of the residents of Quarrie, a village in Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo), are now benefitting from a new water supply system.

Members of the Providence community were elected by way of a democratic process on Saturday last, to form a management committee for the Providence Police Station.

Forty-nine-year-old Ying Gou Sun of Seven Mile, Linden was placed on $150,000 bail when he appeared before Magistrate Clive Nurse at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Monday charged with forgery.

A 27-year-old construction worker was on Monday arrested with 3.563 grammes of cannabis during a police roadblock on the Helena Public Road, East Coast Demerara.