Guyana News

A farmer was on Monday sentenced to seven years behind bars for bludgeoning a housemate to death after the man ate his wild meat and cassava bread.

Bandits this afternoon shot and killed a 23- year-old resident of Middle Road, La Penitence during a suspected robbery.

Opposition-appointed GECOM commissioners: Sase Gunraj, Bibi Shadick and Robeson Benn today deplored mounting attacks on GECOM Chair Claudette Singh.

Amid continuing signs that APNU+AFC will not accept a declaration by GECOM of the results based on the national recount, PPP General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo today said that President David Granger and the riggers supporting him are living in a fool’s world if they believe they will get away with that.

The COVID-19 Task Force of Region Nine is very concerned with residents’ lax attitude to the coronavirus disease pandemic.

An excavator operator was yesterday placed on $400,000 bail after he was charged with setting fire to two public buildings on the Essequibo Coast more than a week ago.

Two Molotov cocktails were thrown in the vicinity of the Suriname Embassy early yesterday morning.

The Guyana Court of Appeal will hear arguments on Saturday morning at 10, in the appeal filed by Tucville resident Misenga Jones, who is challenging the High Court’s decision upholding the validity of the national recount of votes from the March 2 polls.

Eleven new cases of the novel coronavirus were recorded yesterday as a record 150 persons were tested between Tuesday and yesterday.

A 53-year-old grass cutter died on Tuesday afternoon after he was reportedly hit by a motor car along the Melanie Public Road, East Coast Demerara.

A 24-year-old Linden resident is wanted by the police in connection with the murder of gold miner Teo James, who was stabbed to death more than a week ago during an altercation.

A resident of Katuru in the South Central Rupununi district who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is currently being tracked by Region Nine officials after he escaped from health officials shortly after learning that he had the disease.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has reported cases of fraudulent food-handling certificates found among vendors and businesses within the city, during their routine visits.

Two construction workers were injured while demolishing a workshed at the newly constructed Infectious Disease Hospital at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara on Tuesday morning.

The mother of Nursing Assistant Schenise Apple believes that the investigation surrounding her death was at a standstill for months and was only recently fast-tracked after a new detective took over the case.

 (TT Loop News) A Chaguanas man has been held for the murder of Guyanese national Meshach Yoel Mentore, also known as Joel.

A 67-year-old West Ruimveldt woman was yesterday held at gunpoint while her assailant bit her wedding band off of her finger and relieved her of her other gold jewellery she was wearing at the time before making his escape.

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MoPI) is refuting media reports which claim that a stretch of road in Lima Sands, Region Two that was purportedly constructed by the ministry has deteriorated.

Guyana is expected to experience thunderstorms between tomorrow night and Saturday morning as Tropical Storm Gonzalo moves its way north of the country into the Atlantic as a possible hurricane.

The Guyana Court of Appeals’ case management proceedings in the Misenga Jones v The Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) et al.