Guyana News

Police in Regional Division 4 C are investigating a fatal crash which occurred yesterday at about 01:45 hrs on Coldingen Public Road, East Coast Demerara, resulting in the death of an unidentified pedestrian estimated to be about 60 years old.

A 19-year-old is now in police custody after she allegedly set a fire that resulted in the destruction of her mother-in-law’s West Coast Berbice house.

A 75-year-old woman was found dead in her Lot 207 Alexander Street yard early yesterday morning.

Ovid Akeem Williams, a 19-year-old labourer of Charity Back Street, Essequibo Coast, was last week granted bail in the sum of $100,000 after he was charged with possession of narcotics (39 grammes of cannabis) for the purpose of trafficking.

Vijay Durpaul called “Tom”, a 49-year-old unemployed man of Lot 18 Sukai Street, South Better Hope, East Coast Demerara was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment last week on a charge of break and enter and larceny.

Police yesterday said they were investigating the death of a mechanic who was found lifeless in his bed in his River View, Unity, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara home.

A 31-year-old mill operator is now in custody after police found a black CZ Kansas City firearm with serial # B992438, one magazine and 14 rounds of ammunition under a bed at his Westminster, West Bank Demerara home.

Thirty-eight  Coast Guard ranks have completed rigorous training at the Coast Guard Training School.

(Reuters) – A Pennsylvania jury  ordered ExxonMobil to pay US$725.5 million to a former mechanic who claimed toxic chemicals in the company’s gasoline and solvents caused his cancer, according to attorneys for the plaintiff.

-Edghill says not contractor’s fault By Marcelle Thomas The new Demerara Harbour Bridge is now projected to be completed at the end of the first quarter of next year instead of  December this year, with Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill, contending that it was not the fault of the contractor.

GPL yesterday said that the power ship moored off of Everton in the Berbice River is supplying 18 MW to the electricity grid and will incrementally move to 36 MW during the coming week.

`It is sad and troubling that the government views differing opinions as destructive and rooted in political bias’ A non-governmental Indigenous Peoples organisation has taken issue with disparaging remarks made against it by Guyana’s Head of State at a meeting in Region Seven and has called for a retraction of the statement In a release yesterday, the Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) strongly condemned what it termed as” unwarranted attacks” made by President Irfaan Ali against the organisation as reported by the Guyana Chronicle on May 10, and broadcast live on the President’s official social media pages.

-Jagdeo said in report to congress General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo in his report to the PPP’s 32nd Congress last week said that the party is well on its way to returning to the racial unity of the 1950s before the split of the party and he warned against complacency as the 2025 elections loom.

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) yesterday said that some villages in Region Nine have been flooded as a result of continuous rain.

The Opposition’s motion calling for the creation of a Special Select Committee to review charges for house lots for Guyanese was on Friday afternoon defeated in the National Assembly after government MPs voted against it.

Prime Minister Mark Phillips promoted the widespread adoption of electric vehicles during yesterday’s “EV Show and Tell” exhibition at the University of Guyana Berbice Campus and he said the government will soon be leading the way.

Ten families from the community of Warapoka in Region One yesterday received keys to their brand-new elevated timber houses, through the government’s Hinterland Housing Programme.

– a book review by Christopher Ram Part 4 Introduction Chapter 17 is titled Campaign and Elections and reports on the immediate action required to hold the elections following the ruling by the Caribbean Court of Justice that the no confidence motion (NCM) in December 2018 was properly passed, the Government had fallen, and elections had to be held.

Mohamed Inshan last week appeared before Magistrate Zamilla Ally at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court where he was found guilty of the offence of possession of 2.264 kgs of cocaine  for the purpose of trafficking. 

-victim recovering in hospital Up to yesterday, the police had not arrested anyone in the home invasion shooting of Azim Khan, a 22-year-old Guyana Defence Force (GDF) soldier who is said to be recovering at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).