Guyana News

There are pending enquiries from over 100 United States-based businesses about setting up operations in Guyana, Political and Economic Affairs Chief at the United States Embassy in Georgetown, Alexandra King Pile disclosed yesterday.

A young Cuban family is in a state of shock after their sole breadwinner, a butcher of Rossignol Butchery was gunned down yesterday morning in a suspected robbery attempt while on his way to work.

The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) last night condemned the recent decision of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to reduce the number of Polling Places especially in the Party’s strongholds.

Confident that his US$100M Pegasus Suites and Corporate Centre project will thrive and insisting that he isn’t threatened by branded hotels being established here,  hotelier Robert Badal yesterday blazed both the past and current governments for  what he called the “alienation” and discriminatory treatment of local investors.

With Guyana’s General Elections coming shortly  before the International Court of Justice’s  (ICJ) hearings on the Venezuela border controversy, this country’s representative at the deliberations, Sir Shridath Ramphal yesterday appealed for national unity as a demonstration to the world.

The suspect in the 2017 murder of a Plaisance, East Coast Demerara welder, was  arrested on Wednesday by the police and has reportedly confessed to the murder.

Shemar Moore and Kevin Rose were yesterday committed to stand trial at the High Court for the murder of Patrick Fraser, called ‘White Boy,’ who was gunned down while liming with friends at an abandoned house at Bagotstown last year.

Rape accused Stephen McCurdy now faces a possible retrial after a jury was yesterday unable to arrive at a verdict on the indictment levelled against him.

One day before they cast their ballots in the 2020 General and Regional members of the disciplined forces were  the subject of appeals from the two major political parties.

A Port Kaituma businesswoman who is accused of trying to dispose of 3.2 grammes of cocaine before a police search was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $70,000 on a charge of possession of narcotics for trafficking.

A thirty-four-year-old Cuban immigrant was killed minutes to seven this morning in what was believed to be an attempted robbery on Middle Street while on his way to work.

The Carter Center today said that electoral preparations  are on track but it called on GECOM to ensure that vote tabulation procedures for the March 2 General Elections are made clear to all stakeholders.

Former Barbados Prime Minister Owen Arthur is on the Commonwealth’s observer mission for the March 2 general elections.

As the sod was turned yesterday for a US$100M investment on 20 acres of land at Ogle, NICIL announced that it was only part of a grand “City of Ogle” project spanning some 800 acres going all the way to Lusignan.

Guyana’s economy grew by 4.7% last year surpassing the 4.4% projection, Minister of Finance Winston Jordan yesterday announced.

Two men were yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with the murder of the Sophia man who was reportedly beaten during a robbery attempt.

The Ministry of Public Health in collaboration with the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) yesterday commissioned the recently rehabilitated facility which will provide accommodation to doctors, nurses and other staff members of the GPHC.

The police yesterday obtained additional statements as they continue to investigate the February 8th  accident which claimed the life of former national cyclist Jude Bentley, Commander of Region 4(A) Assistant Commissioner Edgar Thomas confirmed.

The Amerindian Peoples Associations (APA) in collaboration with the National Toshaos Council (NTC) yesterday presented a list of their concerns to political parties contesting the March 2nd General and Regional elections and land titling and revision of the Amerindian Act are key areas.

Guyana’s third bauxite plant will be commissioned today at Bonasika in the Upper Demerara River of Region 3 and the company has told government that if natural gas is brought onshore for domestic purposes it will build an aluminium smelter at its location.