Guyana News

Seven Haitian nationals, who claimed they did not know the immigration procedures, were yesterday fined by acting Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus after they admitted to illegally exiting from Guyana.

An Essequibo motorcyclist is currently hospitalised in a serious condition after he collided with a parked motor canter along the Middlesex Public Road, Essequibo Coast on Saturday night.

A man was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with the attempted murder of a Semang Landing miner.

Residents of Linden are poised to enjoy additional relief from the dust pollution caused by bauxite mining as Chinese bauxite mining company, Bosai Minerals Group (Guyana) Inc.

Two men were refused bail yesterday by acting Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus after they were charged with robbing a man who had planned to sell one of them an iPhone.

Two men who police say were found with 169 grammes of cannabis were charged at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts yesterday.

General Secretary of the PPP, Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday flayed President David Granger for dictatorial tendencies  and going against the constitution as he launched scathing attacks against the governing APNU+AFC coalition in front of thousands of supporters at an Albion, Berbice rally.

With over 36,000 Venezuelans having arrived in Guyana due to the crisis in their country, the demand for a sustainable food supply is higher in Region One, where thousands have settled, Regional Chairman Brentnol Ashley has said.

PPP/C Prime Ministerial candidate Mark Phillips yesterday slammed the governing coalition which he said was running scared and desperate and he also took aim at APNU’s Joseph Harmon for saying that he was an ethnic token.

Construction of the Itabac Primary School in Region Eight remains incomplete with the site abandoned while overpayments amounting to $6.4 million were made for the construction of a nurses hostel in Mahdia which is still to be completed, according to the Auditor General’s report for the 2018 fiscal year.

Chartered accountant Tameshwar Lilmohan says that the prognosis for renegotiating the much-criticised 2016 Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) with ExxonMobil’s subsidiary is very bleak and Guyana’s best chance would be to seek a “good faith and conscionable review” for fair and equitable terms from the partners to the deal.

Change Guyana Prime Ministerial candidate Nigel Hinds yesterday withdrew from the ticket citing his dual citizenship and a likely medical condition he learnt of in November last year.

Fifty-seven servicemen and women from Region 9 were on Friday awarded employment contracts  by the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) under which they would receive a fixed salary instead of a stipend to maintain the water supply systems in their villages.

The Government in collaboration with the Chinese Association of Guyana yesterday celebrated the 167th anniversary of the arrival of Chinese in Guyana with the turning of the sod for a monument to be erected at Windsor Forest, Region Three.

The Mass Drug Administration (MDA) campaign to make Guyana filaria-free is underway, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo will this week lead a delegation, including Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr.

President David Granger yesterday said that he is saddened at the death of Dr.

Change Guyana Prime Ministerial candidate Nigel Hinds today withdrew from the ticket helmed by businessman Robert Badal citing his dual citizenship and a likely medical condition he learnt of in November last year.

A Guyanese man accused of murdering a beloved 92-year-old Queens “cat lady” told cops he gets “uncontrollable urges” — and killed her because of pent-up anger at his family, law-enforcement sources told The New York Post on Friday.

Following their observation of Nomination Day on Friday, the heads of the British, United States and the European Union missions here have congratulated the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) for a smoothly run process and called for “a peaceful and mature election campaign.”