Guyana News

Days after pile driving began for the rehabilitation of the dilapidated Leguan Stelling, another section collapsed yesterday afternoon, alarming residents over the potential repercussions for the island.

The driver of the Route 31 minibus that was involved in the more than one-week-old accident at Nismes, West Bank Demerara Public Road, which left four persons dead and several others injured, has been released on station bail as the police continue their investigation.

The Regional Democratic Council (RDC) of Region Six has been notified that National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) machinery has been used for private work in the region and Regional Executive Officer (REO) Kim Williams-Stephen has said that the operators were cautioned as a result. 

Guyana Carnival 2020 was officially launched on Sunday evening, with a preview of costumes highlighting its “Around the World” theme.

Tishawn Thomas, a young miner, was granted bail yesterday after he pleaded not guilty to an attempted murder charge.

Clothes vendor Collis Burrowes, who the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) says was found with a quantity of crystal meth and ecstasy at Springlands, was yesterday faced with two drug trafficking charges.

Mark Grimmond and Chatterpaul Singh, the two men accused of attempting to kill a Lethem businessman, were yesterday committed to stand trial at the High Court.

A Brazilian youth, who had been arrested for murder, will be spending the next three months in jail after pleaded guilty to trafficking marijuana that was found in his possession.

Murder accused Travis Evans, known as ‘Short Boss,’ yesterday admitted to raping a woman and robbing her of $650,000 in a 2010 attack.

The police in Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo) are probing the discovery of skeletal remains, suspected to be those of a man, which were found on Sunday in the Marudi Mountain area.

International Human Rights Day 2019 finds the world with little new to acclaim in terms of progressive enjoyment of rights when viewed as a whole. 

Region Four A Commander Assistant Commissioner Edgar Thomas has refuted a claim by the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) that the police force abused its power to suppress sugar workers who were exercising their freedom of expression during a protest one week ago.

Reported missing after travelling to Suriname to fish for crabs last Sunday, four Berbice men have been found alive and unharmed.

The four Berbice men who were reported missing after they left their homes on December 1st to go to Suriname to catch crabs have since been found.

Over two weeks after the partners in the APNU+AFC governing coalition reached consensus on a revised Cummingsburg Accord, their electoral pact for next year’s elections, there is no word on when it will be formally signed though it has been indicated that the campaign launch will be on January 3rd, 2020.

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) remains hopeful that the David Granger administration would make provisions to pay sugar workers an increase in wages and salaries.

An Ituni motorcyclist, who was riding without a head lamp on, died after crashing into a car on the Ituni trail on Saturday night.

Government’s reason for WPA founder Dr Walter Rodney’s name being removed from the National Archives of Guyana building to correct the process by properly gazetteing the change is absurd and an excuse as there is no law which requires this, former PPP/C Attorney General Anil Nandlall says.

The land surrounding the Chateau Margot chimney was purchased in 1959 from the then Bookers Limited by the Irisdeen family.

Corrupt police ranks play a major role in the continuing misconduct of mini-bus operators, who, according to commuters, break traffic laws on a daily basis with the knowledge that they will not face any legal consequences as they can bribe the police.