Guyana News

General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Bharrat Jagdeo on Friday made it clear to Berbicians that sugar estates closed by the current government would be reopened if his party wins the upcoming polls.

Fighting a move to remove him as a candidate for the upcoming March 2nd general and regional elections on the basis of dual citizenship, Liberty and Justice Party (LJP) leader Lenox Shuman is maintaining that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) lacks both the legal authority and objectivity to decide on the issue, while contending that he officially renounced his Canadian citizenship since last December.

With international corruption watchdog Global Witness estimating a potential loss for Guyana of up to US$55 billion over the 40-year period of the licence for the offshore Stabroek Block, Change Guyana presidential candidate Robert Badal has said if he is elected to office he will set up a formal inquiry into the processes and negotiations surrounding oil and gas contracts.

Bees invaded the National Park yesterday afternoon, forcing the Protected Areas Commission (PAC) to temporarily close the facility.

Members of a Rose Hall family have been displaced after a fire of unknown origin destroyed their house yesterday afternoon.

The National Park is temporarily closed until further notice as there seem to have been an invasion of bees, a release from the Protected Areas Commission said this afternoon.

Following recent revelations in Stabroek News of Global Witness’s estimate that Guyana stands  to lose some US$55B on one contract over the next 40 years, Change Guyana presidential candidate, Robert Badal said if he was elected to office he would set up a Commission of Enquiry into the processes and negotiations surrounding Oil and Gas Contracts.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is actively participating in the ongoing audit of the US$460 million in pre-contract costs claimed by ExxonMobil and its co-venturers and is working to have a 24-hour presence on offshore oil operations and closed-circuit television access as it yesterday promised strict tax oversight of the petroleum sector.

President David Granger last evening announced plans for a squatter resettlement body as he sought to make his case for re-election to residents of Region Three (Essequibo Islands/West Demerara), where he also touted conditional cash transfers for families with school-age children from oil revenues and access to farming lands for laid off sugar workers.

Attorney General Basil Williams, Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan, and Speaker of the National Assembly Dr Barton Scotland are among 74 public officials who have been identified as being delinquent in filing their declaration of assets for last year, according to the Integrity Commission.

A 22-year-old bank teller was allegedly stabbed by her “reputed husband,” who police say then attempted to end his own life by ingesting a poison and jumping into the Demerara River on Thursday evening.

A Corentyne rice farmer, who is accused of being a cattle thief, was evening gunned down in the Number 67 Village, Corentyne backlands on Thursday, while allegedly stealing two cows. 

A 23-year-old woman was remanded to prison yesterday after she was charged with the murder of Latoya Haywood, the mother of two who was fatally stabbed on Christmas morning.

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The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) yesterday condemned what it called the “unacceptable conduct” over the past few days of purported supporters of political parties contesting the upcoming March 2nd general and regional elections.

A Brazilian national is now a remanded prisoner after he was charged yesterday with the murder of Kuru Kuru, Soesdyke-Linden Highway miner David Atkinson, who was killed last October.

A 45-year-old resident of Port Kaituma, who is accused of raping a woman, was remanded to prison yesterday after he was charged with the offence in a city court.

Months after he was charged with attempting to smuggle nearly three dozen live finches from Guyana through the JFK Airport to sell for use in high-stakes bird-singing competitions, a Guyanese man on Thursday admitted to the crime.

A 42-year-old miner is currently hospitalised with burns about his body, which he suffered on Wednesday evening while rescuing children from a burning building at Mahdia, in Region Eight.

Sheria Khalil, a bank teller, was stabbed last night allegedly by her reputed husband, Clifton Richmond who then allegedly ingested poison and plunged into the Demerara River, the police said in a statement today.