Guyana News

Natram Lall, the construction worker who is accused of fatally stabbing his wife, Bibi Zameena Ally at their Crane, West Coast Demerara home one week ago was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with murder.

A Kaneville, East Bank Demerara teenager was yesterday morning discovered dead in a trench at Craig, hours after he was reportedly attacked by persons in his community.

Indigenous rights activist and presidential candidate for the Liberty and Justice Party (LJP) Lenox Shuman has been struck off the List of Candidates for the March 2, 2020 elections after the seven-member Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) concluded that he still held Canadian citizenship on Nomination Day.

The Strathspey septuagenarian, who was brutally beaten during an attack on his family on Sunday morning by a businessman and his relatives yesterday succumbed to his injuries, police said.

Cuban medical specialists have confirmed that President David Granger’s medical examination shows that he has improved to their satisfaction and that he is in good health, according to a statement yesterday from the Ministry of the Presidency.

Change Guyana Presidential Candidate Robert Badal is promising to double the old age pension from $20,500 to $41,000 on his first day in office, and to implement a US$5 royalty on every tonne of bauxite shipped from Guyana if his party wins the coming election on 2nd March 2020. 

Minister within the Ministry of Communities Annette Ferguson has  filed a $60M lawsuit against Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo and the Guyana Times newspaper, over what she said are libelous statements made by the two, calculated to damage her character and reputation.

In his home village of Whim, Corentyne, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo last evening defended his government’s decision to close several sugar estates by saying that these were “absolutely useless as producing sugar estates.”

With just weeks to go before the March 2 general election, the caretaker APNU+AFC government is continuing to invite interest in major projects – this time for hydropower facilities to be financed by the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) to the tune of US$14.6m.

Two persons remain in custody as the police probe into the murder of newspaper vendor Shawn Mannilall continues and investigators are working to wrap up their investigation by tomorrow, Crime Chief (ag) Michael Kingston said.

Schoolchildren have been found loitering at the Stabroek Market and the Ministry of Education has been taking steps to ensure that they get to their schools.

Businessman and Presidential Candidate for the Change Guyana party, Robert Badal, says discussions with other new parties about coalescing were frustrated by the lateness of talks, which left a narrow, insufficient window for discussion and agreement before Nomination Day.

Twenty-two employees from several government agencies and the disciplined services are now certified to conduct safety and health inspections onboard Floating Production and Storage Offloading (FPSO) vessels.

The Bartica Mayor and Town Council has been presented with two trailers to boost their solid waste collection efforts, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said on Monday.

A 37-year-old man who claimed that someone placed a small parcel of cannabis in his pants pocket while exiting a boat at the Bartica Stelling was granted bail yesterday after he denied the charge that was read to him at a city court.

A youth facing three theft charges was yesterday released on bail moments after he denied the allegations.

GECOM today ruled that the leader of the Liberty and Justice Party (LJP), Lenox Shuman be removed from the list of candidates submitted by his party as he was a dual citizen at the time.

Cuban medical specialists have confirmed that President David Granger’s medical examination shows that he has improved to the satisfaction of his doctors and that he is in good health, according to a statement today from the Ministry of the Presidency.

Director General of the Ministry of the Presidency, Joseph Harmon, yesterday urged all government MPs delinquent in filing their declaration of assets to the Integrity Commission to do so immediately. 

By September of this year, the CARICOM Secretariat should be powered by solar energy thanks to US$18M in financing from Japan via the Government of Guyana.