Guyana News

A 58-year-old vendor who bullied a man for two bottles of high wine was remanded to prison yesterday after he was charged with attempting to kill the man.

Over 100 employees of the Russian-owned Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI) have been laid off effective from today and the company has informed employees that the downsizing of operations is a result of a “fuel shortage.”

The European Union today announced the deployment of its March 2 election observer mission here.

President David Granger yesterday met three members of the United States Congress at the Ministry of the Presidency and assured them that the March 2nd General and Regional elections will be free and fair.

The man accused of killing his 19-year-old wife in 2011 was yesterday sentenced to 15 years in prison after confessing to the act. 

Access to justice for residents of East Bank Demerara (EBD) has been broadened with the opening of the $143.5 million Diamond/Golden Grove Magistrates’ Court.

Citibank, the New York, USA-headquartered consumer division of financial services multinational, Citigroup is exploring establishing a presence in Guyana says Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr Karen Cummings.

The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) and the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU)  have clinched a MoU which will allow for the exchange of information and intelligence relating to subjects suspected to be involved in or convicted of committing drug-related offences.

Four Mon Repos cattle farmers say they may be forced to sell their cattle after the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA), without notice, and without providing them with an alternative, suddenly reclaimed land they were given to use as pastures, and levelled the grass thereon.

At the hearing of the appeal to a 37-year sentence for sexually assaulting a child, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack said that the penalty imposed upon Linton Pompey was especially warranted given the specific circumstances of the case.

The two men accused of killing Mohamed Abdool Shameer in a boat collision on the Pomeroon River several years ago walked out of the High Court in Essequibo yesterday as free men after a judge upheld a no-case submission made by their attorney.

A fifty-four-year-old resident of Herstelling died on Tuesday morning after the garbage truck he was working on crushed him.

Quacy Walker who was on trial in the High Court in Berbice for a 2015 Berbice River murder was on Tuesday found not guilty. 

The case file on the investigation into the death of Strathspey septuagenarian Deochand Ramsai, who was brutally beaten during an attack on his family on Sunday morning has been sent for legal advice, Regional Commander Royston Andries-Junor said.

The autopsy performed yesterday on the body of a young man who was pulled from the Canal Number Two Conservancy on Monday night after he went jet skiing has ruled that the man died from drowning.

Bids were on Tuesday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the provision of security services for the Botanical Gardens and Zoological Park.

The three suspects who were held in connection with the murder of East La Penitence resident Richard Fresco have been released from police custody, Regional Commander Edgar Thomas yesterday confirmed.

Having spent the last 19 months on remand for committing an offence which carries a maximum penalty of 18 months behind bars, 25-yesr-old Hemchand Kenswain walked out of the High Court in Georgetown a free man.

The trial of a man  accused of murdering a Festival City father of one in 2015 is set to commence today at the High Court.

Massive drainage works are being undertaken in the flood-prone community of Alexander Village, Georgetown by the Mayor and City Council.