Guyana News

A vagrant was fatally stabbed on Friday evening during a fight with two other vagrants for a vacant sleeping spot on a stall at the Corriverton Market. 

Public Health Minister Volda Lawrence yesterday responded to the outrage caused by the ‘Word of God’ declarations posted on the Ministry’s Facebook page, while saying that they were not a statement or policy by the ministry.

Three masked gunmen robbed the owners of a Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice clothing store last evening and battered one of them during the attack.

Five men who were held in connection with the murders at a Number 63 Beach hotel, where the owner and a watchman were found dead, have been released from police custody, a source confirm-ed yesterday afternoon. 

The family of late painter Donald Mootoo, who died in a gruesome accident along the Montrose, East Coast Demerara in the early hours of New Year’s day, is at a loss as to how he met his death.

The rice sector produced 1,049,874 metric tonnes (mt) of paddy in 2019, marking the second highest annual production to date, according to the Guyana Rice Development’s Board (GRDB).

There are 173 squatter areas across regions Two to Six, and regions Nine and Ten which have been identified as being suitable for regularization, according to Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) Director for Community Development Gladwin Charles.

Minister of Public Service Tabitha Sarabo-Halley says government will continue to award scholarships for University of Guyana (UG) law graduates to pursue their Legal Education Certificate (LEC) at the Hugh Wooding Law School (HWLS) next year if it is re-elected.

The police today provided details of a hair-raising robbery last night at Tuschen that left one of the bandits dead and they said that a serving member of the joint services also took part in the attack and was held at a roadblock at Den Amstel.

To a roaring crowd of thousands of supporters, the governing APNU+AFC coalition yesterday launched its bid for a second term in office, with leaders saying that much has been accomplished over the past four years and they have a plan that will ensure that Guyana will never be poor again.

Former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Chief-of-Staff Brigadier (ret’d) Mark Phillips has been selected as the prime ministerial candidate of the opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) for the March 2nd general and regional elections.

A suspected bandit was shot dead and another was left hospitalised on Friday night after a reported robbery was foiled at Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo.

Officers of the Guyana Prison Service (GPS) yesterday managed to foil a planned escape from the Georgetown Prison, where the bars of cells were discovered to have been cut by inmates, who had access to hacksaw blades.

Outrage erupted yesterday following a post on the Ministry of Public Health’s Facebook page that blatantly referenced Christianity to make almost a dozen “declarations.”

Citing the need to preserve press freedom, the Inter-American Press Associat-ion (IAPA) has called on the Guyana Government to review its current distribution practice for official advertising to ensure that neither Stabroek News nor any other media house “is adversely affected.”

Food vendor Christopher Cummings was yesterday found guilty of trafficking 106 grammes of cannabis, for which he was sentenced to three years in jail.

Exhibits for the trial of former Guyana Rice Board Development (GRDB) accountant Peter Ramcharran, who is charged with allegedly falsifying the entity’s account, could not be located when the proceedings continued yesterday.

A porter has been charged with stealing a quantity of items amounting to $1.2 million from the store where he was employed.

A labourer accused of trafficking ecstasy pills was yesterday released on $200,000 bail after a court heard that the police were still awaiting an analyst certificate in order to proceed with the trial.

Donetta Rajkumar left the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts a free woman on Thursday after a charge that she stole $195,000 from the home of Minister Simona Broomes, at whose residence she was employed as a housekeeper, was dismissed.