Guyana News

The trial of Sherwin Clark and Godfrey Gill who are accused of murdering Better Hope pensioner David Ramkissoon, is scheduled to commence this morning before Justice Sandil Kissoon at the High Court in Georgetown.

According to the members of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) the secretariat is “on top of” preparations for the holding of the March 2,2020 General and Regional Elections (GRE).

Sentenced to life for the 2017 murder of a vagrant, Shawn Harris has lodged an appeal with the Guyana Court of Appeal through which he is challenging his conviction and sentence which he contends is too severe.

Following meetings with various stakeholders, Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley has expressed confidence in the Guyanese electorate ahead of the March 2,2020 General and Regional Elections.

A miner was remanded to prison yesterday after he was charged with illegal possession of a firearm.

A labourer is now a remanded prisoner after police say he had 65 grammes of cannabis in his possession at Popekai Landing, Cuyuni-Mazaruni.

A security guard was yesterday sentenced to nine months imprisonment after he told a court that he did not know the items he was transporting were stolen.

A 39-year-old poultry farmer who was accused of stealing the money he was entrusted with to deliver lumber was granted bail yesterday after he was charged with the offence.

Some 1,125 residents of the village of Aishalton in Region Nine (Upper Takutu/Upper Essequibo) are now benefitting from access to potable water with the completion of a new $25 million water supply system.

Two men charged with wounding each other were granted bail after they both took turns to explain their side of the matter to a City Magistrate.

GECOM Chair Justice (ret’d) Claudette Singh has disclosed that Lenox Shuman will remain on his party’s list for the upcoming general and regional elections.

The Police say they are investigating the murder of 48-year-old Gopaul `Eyelash/Kumar’ Seeram, a labourer of Cane Grove, ECD which occurred yesterday between 18:00 – 21:00h, at Log Dam, Cane Grove, Mahaica, ECD, allegedly by his immediate neighbour – a 21-year-old labourer and his 43-year-old reputed wife.

(Trinidad Guardian) A fe­male pas­sen­ger who ar­rived at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port from Guyana on Mon­day night on a jour­ney that orig­i­nat­ed in Hong Kong was sent back to the port of em­barka­tion.

The Government of Guyana yesterday said it had entered a “fair” agreement with an ExxonMobil subsidiary for the country’s first oil block and it rejected a report by anti-corruption watchdog Global Witness (GW) which said that inept negotiation of the 2016 Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) could have cost the country as much as US$55b.

General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Bharrat Jagdeo on Monday told supporters that should his party win the upcoming March 2 polls, it would immediately look at building the necessary infrastructure to bring natural gas onshore.

A Linden miner was shot dead on Monday during an argument over a card game at Quartzstone Backdam, in Region Seven and the gunman has since been arrested.

A teen was charged and remanded over the murders of Canadian hotelier Vivekanand Brijbassi and his watchman, Harry Persaud, who were found dead at Number 63 Village, Corentyne, Berbice last December.

Dozens of sugar workers supported by their union, the Guyana Agricultural and General  Workers Union (GAWU), yesterday mounted another protest in front of the Ministry of the Presidency on Vlissengen Road for an increase in wages and salaries.

Liberty and Justice Party (LJP) leader Lenox Shuman remains at loggerheads with members of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) over whether he was eligible for inclusion on his party’s list of candidates on Nomination Day.

The decriminalisation of same sex relations between consenting men by year end and the inclusion of protection from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in the constitution are among the 15 minimum demands being sought by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgen-der, and other Queer (LGBTQ+) community from all political parties contesting in the March 2nd general and regional elections.