Guyana News

The family of Triumph resident Kevin Singh, 26, who was found dead with his girlfriend, Sabrina Nandram, 25, in a bathtub at the Aracari Hotel and Resort on Sunday, remains at a loss as to how he met his end.

A Plaisance shopkeeper was fatally stabbed early yesterday morning by a neighbour who had threatened to kill her after accusing her of putting a monkey to steal from him.

The A Partnership for National Unity+ Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) coalition will not be releasing the entire Revised Cummingsburg Accord to the general public, says APNU General Secretary, Joseph Harmon.

Linden resident Keon Lawson, who late last year was found guilty of raping a nine-year-old girl, was yesterday morning sentenced to spend the next 20 years behind bars by Sexual Offences Court judge Simone Morris-Ramlall.

Auditor General (AG) Deodat Sharma has highlighted a litany of irregularities in the execution of the 2015 Georgetown Restoration Programme, which has cost the treasury nearly a billion dollars over the four years it has existed.

Travis Evans, 25, was yesterday morning sentenced to three years behind bars for robbing a woman at knife point of more than half a million dollars a decade ago.

The St Joseph Mercy Hospital (SJMH) is now offering medications under its own brand name.

A cattle farmer was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with the murder of Black Bush rice farmer, Chanderpaul Navin Dhuman.

As the police work towards wrapping up their investigation of last Friday’s armed attack on a Tuschen Housing Scheme Chinese restaurateur, which left one suspect dead, they were granted approval by a court yesterday to further detain his three alleged accomplices who were taken into custody.

The police have been advised to institute criminal charges against former PPP/C Member of Parliament Alister Charlie, who has been accused of attempting to pervert the course of justice and sexual assault. 

Principal Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus yesterday announced that paper committal procedures would be used to decide on the charge against the two men accused of attempting to murder ex-policeman Teon Allen.

Residents of Bath Settlement Housing Scheme, West Coast Berbice yesterday morning rescued three children, who were home alone, from their burning house. 

Minister of Education Dr Nicolette Henry yesterday commissioned two new schools in Region One (Barima-Waini). 

An East La Penitence butcher was yesterday granted $40,000 bail after being charged with wrongfully restraining a man from conducting his business.

A Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) employee was today charged with the murder of Kyle Chase, the South Ruimveldt youth who police say was stabbed to death by his girlfriend’s jealous ex.

A 54-year-old shopkeeper was early this morning fatally stabbed at Graham Street, Plaisance and the suspect; her neighbour has since been arrested.

Expressing optimism of victory at the upcoming elections, the opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) yesterday launched their campaign to regain office, with General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo launching blistering attacks on the government for their failings and presidential candidate Irfaan Ali saying that under his leadership, the country will be transformed.

A man and a woman were yesterday afternoon found dead in a  room at the Aracari Hotel and Resort on the West Coast of Demerara and the police are probing.

Political parties should be allowed to campaign freely in any part of Guyana and the APNU+AFC coalition would not condone any form of violence or damage to political parties’ paraphernalia, says Joseph Harmon, Co-Chair of the APNU+AFC campaign.

The Audit Office is still to conclude its special investigation into the controversial billion-dollar D’Urban Park Development Project.