Guyana News

According to the current Chair of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM),  Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, it would be inappropriate for CARICOM to pass judgment on Suriname President Desi Bouterse until the matter of his conviction for 15 murders in 1982 is fully resolved by Court.

Former Attorney General Anil Nandlall has dismissed attacks on oil and gas deals clinched by the Ramotar administration in the run up to the 2015 general election as baseless, noting that the government had been fully empowered compared to the caretaker status of the governing APNU+AFC coalition.

CARICOM is being advised to resist the temptation to panic when responding to the Coronavirus which the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a “global emergency”.

An autopsy performed on the remains of 24-year-old Clifton Richmond, the man who succumbed on Saturday two days after stabbing his wife, revealed that he died as a result of pesticide poisoning.

The driver of the garbage truck that crushed Herstelling resident Chatterpaul Kabir has been  released on station bail and has resumed his work.

A man who went into hiding after being sentenced for robbery was yesterday ordered to begin serving his time after he was brought to a city court on a separate charge of wounding.

The 15-year-old student of the Linden Foundation Secondary School who was  stabbed by one of her schoolmates during a fight two weeks ago remains hospitalised and is slowly recovering as the police investigation into the matter continues.

A miner charged with committing a violent robbery was granted bail last Friday after he denied the charge and told a city court that he only punched the victim.

Twenty families from the Broad and Lombard streets area were last week presented with keys to their new homes as part of a Relocation and Resettlement project.

A Mahdia miner has been charged with attempting to break and enter the Mahdia Post Office living quarters.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC – Left-handed stroke-makers Evin Lewis and Shimron Hetymyer have been axed for this month’s One-Day International tour of Sri Lanka after failing Cricket West Indies’ new fitness standards.

Without imputing any wrongdoing on his part, Global Witness today called for the Guyana Government to investigate the role of the Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman in the negotiation of the much criticized 2016 Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) with ExxonMobil.

In its explosive report issued today entitled `Signed Away: How Exxon’s exploitative deal deprived Guyana of up to US$55 billion’, anti-corruption group Global Witness today called for the Guyana Government to renegotiate the controversial 2016 Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) with the US company.

President David Granger last evening promised Berbicians that if the APNU+AFC coalition is reelected to govern Guyana, he will work to ensure that Region Six is rebuilt as an agricultural powerhouse.

Guyana’s racial divide has to be dealt with frontally by politicians to swiftly see a healing as no one should be attacked for their political choices, says PPP/C prime ministerial candidate Brigadier (retired) Mark Phillips, who says that he has faced scathing criticism over his choice to join the PPP/C.

(Jamaica Gleaner) NCB Financial Group Limited, NCBFG, is taking steps to enter Guyana, likely through its ­investment banking unit.

An accident on the Providence Public Road, East Bank Demerara claimed the life of a Subryanville motorcyclist on Saturday night.

A student of Ann’s Grove Secondary died last night after he was struck down on the Golden Grove Public Road while walking home in the company of his cousins.

A forty-four- year-old labourer was yesterday morning fatally stabbed by his drinking mate after an argument ensued as they were on their way home and the suspect has been arrested.

Employees of the majority Russian-owned Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI) “threatened” Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) auditors a few months ago when they went to undertake an audit of the company saying they will close the company’s operations if the tax authorities persisted, GRA Commissioner General Godfrey Statia said.