Guyana News

US Ambassador to Guyana, Nicole Theriot, accompanied by a representative of the Regional Security System (RSS), Regional Security Officer (RSO), Mayah Shih, on Thursday morning paid a courtesy call on acting Commissioner of Police, Clifton Hicken at his Eve Leary, Georgetown office, a release from the Guyana Police Force stated.

During the University of Guyana’s hosting of a discussion on intellectual property (IP) rights yesterday, Professor Leyland Lucas of the School of Entrepreneurship Business and Innovation (SEBI) highlighted the importance of understanding and protecting intellectual property in a rapidly growing economy like Guyana.

The Guyana Defence Force today informed of a tragic incident relating to a collision between a Coast Guard vessel and a civilian vessel in the Moruca River, Region One (Barima Waini), resulting in loss of lives.

Police are investigating the murder of Edward Bramnarine, also known as Eddy, a 49-year-old ‘vagrant’, whose body was discovered at about 11.20 last night on Water and Holmes streets, Georgetown.

The government and the opposition yesterday condemned Venezuela’s latest activation of legislation to annex Guyana’s Essequibo region, noting that it violates the Argyle Agreement signed in December last year.

In the wake of 38 people being evacuated from Santa Mission/Santa-Aratak and neighbouring communities yesterday morning as a wildfire escalated to a point where firefighters were unable to access the affected areas in order to extinguish it, citizens around the country are urged to be vigilant.

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) yesterday announced that it had written to Minister of Labour Joseph Hamilton informing him of plans to initiate strike action, which Hamilton said goes against a pending court case instigated by the union.

Farmer Richard Martin has been sentenced to 13 years in jail for the September 2020 killing of Bourda Market labourer Ovid Chester, who was stabbed after he reportedly conned Martin out of a construction net that he promised to sell.

Those persons who were left counting their losses due to the damages incurred to their homes and businesses following the fatal accident that claimed the life of 21-year-old pedestrian, Nicholas Khelawon, on Tuesday morning on the public road at Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara, are now demanding to be compensated.

Police in Linden yesterday said they arrested two men with some 9,979 grammes of suspected cannabis while a third was arrested for offering a bribe of $453,000 to the lawmen to release the suspects.

A US-based Guyanese who was allegedly found with an unlicensed firearm and ammunition on Sunday last at a horse racing event in Berbice has been charged and remanded to prison.

The Ministry of Health has embarked on outlining the steps to be taken for the implementation of the National Action Plan for Health Security under what has been tagged the ‘One Health Approach’.

A 73-year-old woman recently benefitted from a successful total hip replacement – right hip joint surgery performed by doctors of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), the first of its kind, according to a release from the Department of Public Information (DPI).

The first batch of families awarded house lots in Le Ressouvenir Housing Development, East Coast Demerara were able to identify them on Wednesday in the presence of Minister of Housing and Water Collin Croal.

The government has launched an initiative to accelerate its efforts to eliminate communicable diseases.

Police on mobile patrol yesterday morning arrested a resident of Henrietta, Essequibo Coast after he was found in possession of an unlicensed firearm.

VENEZUELA’S AGGRESSION IS OF DEEP CONCERN   The Parliamentary Opposition views with deep concern, and alarm, the action taken by the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to promulgate “the organic law for the defense of Guayana Essequiba” in total violation of international law.

On March 21, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Georgetown Country Office collaborated with the Joint Interagency Task Force South (JIATFS), Guyana Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU), and the United States Coast Guard (USCG) to seize a Self-Propelled Semi-Submersible (SPSS) approximately 150 miles off the coast of Guyana carrying 2,370 kilograms of cocaine, a release from the U.S.

The Government of Guyana today condemned Venezuela’s promulgation yesterday of a law for the defence of Guayana Esequiba which is how it describes this country’s county of Essequibo.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) as part of a Joint Services effort completed the evacuation of 38 residents of Santa Aratak communities along the Kamuni Creek at 2.50 this morning.