Guyana News

Assuring voters that they would never join APNU+AFC or the PPP/C  for government positions but will work for unity, the three small parties which have joined their lists in a ground-breaking move yesterday set out how they would share any seats won at the March 2nd general elections.

Co-Chair of the APNU+AFC campaign Joseph Harmon yesterday denied that the incumbent is using state resources as part of its re-election efforts.

Nearly two years after it was first proposed by the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), a system of Direct Cash Transfers has found favour with the incumbent A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC). 

A chainsaw operator died on Thursday afternoon after he was crushed to death by a tractor while it was descending a hill along the Malali Backdam trail, at Region Ten.

A teen has succumbed after she and two other minors were accidentally struck by a car along the Bush Lot Village, Corentyne, Berbice public road.

A 12-year-old grade seven student of the West Demerara Secondary School was left hospitalised with a fractured skull last Monday after being beaten and robbed.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday welcomed the investment represented by the new AC Marriott Hotel but criticized the secrecy with which the arrangement was negotiated.

After over one year on the run, the accused in the murder of Darren Edwards, who was fatally stabbed in December 2018, was remanded to prison yesterday after he was charged with the crime.

The woman who struck by a taxi along the Linden-Soesdyke Highway on Wednesday night has been identified as resident of Yarrowkabra.

The investigation into the one-week old accident which claimed the life of former national cyclist Jude Bentley is “almost” complete and the police are expected to seek legal advice in the new week, Traffic Chief Linden Isles said yesterday.

The Competition and Consumer Affairs Commission (CCAC) has enjoyed some measure of success in its efforts to advocate for consumers’ rights and in encouraging suppliers to comply with the Consumer Affairs and Competition and Fair Trade laws.

A planned signing of a long-in-the-works collective labour agreement between the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) and the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has been postponed.

Two young children who were left home alone were rescued from a Sophia house that was almost reduced to ashes on Thursday night after a fire of unknown origin.

Almost a month after being doused with a flammable substance and set alight by her husband, Wakenaam resident Sattie Looknauth remains in hospitalised in critical condition.

A man was granted bail on Friday after he denied assaulting a police constable, while three other charges against him were dismissed after his accuser declined to pursue them.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists examining the genomes of West Africans have detected signs that a mysterious extinct human species interbred with our own species tens of thousands of years ago in Africa, the latest evidence of humankind’s complicated genetic ancestry.

A Tucville youth was yesterday sentenced to two years in jail for possession of an unlicensed gun, which was found hidden in his pants.

A Jamaican national was yesterday fined and ordered deported after he confessed to overstaying in Guyana.

Former Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding will head the Organisation of American States (OAS) observer mission to Guyana’s March 2 general elections.

On the occasion of its 5th anniversary as a coalition, the governing APNU+AFC launched its manifesto for the March 2, 2020 General and Regional Elections promising among other things conditional cash transfers, non-custodial sentences for the possession of small quantities of marijuana and constitutional reform,  the latter of which it failed to deliver as per its 2015 pledge.