Guyana News

A Dairy resident accused of armed robbery was yesterday remanded to prison by a Georgetown Magistrate.

A man who told the court that he “box up” his spouse because she was “up in his face”, will now be spending the next five months behind bars.

An East Coast Demerara businessman was on Tuesday evening held at gunpoint and relieved of $300,000 cash.

A man who says he uses narcotics to alleviate stress was yesterday remanded to prison while the Acting Chief Magistrate awaits a probation report for sentencing.

An 18-year-old man was granted bail on Thursday after he denied stealing almost $200,000 worth in articles from a woman.

A youth was remanded to prison after facing two charges of illegal possession of a firearm.

The families who were left homeless after their home in the East La Penitence Housing Compound partially collapsed are hoping to build temporary shelters in the compound which will house them until they receive the land they were recently promised by the Ministry of Communities.

For the second day running, teachers gathered outside of the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court in solidarity with one of their number who was charged with assault following an incident at Winfer Gardens Primary that also saw a parent facing a similar count.

Ninety-one thousand entries on the Revised Voters List (RVL) require address changes stemming from the controversial house-to-house (HtH) enumeration last year, posing a major headache for GECOM with just a few more days before the final voters list has to be published.

The Private Sector Commission last evening condemned as “a direct threat to the peaceful conduct of the elections” calls by members of the governing coalition for their supporters to remain outside polling places until the Statement of Poll is posted.

Natram Lall, the construction worker who is accused of fatally stabbing his wife, Bibi Zameena Ally at their Crane, West Coast Demerara home one week ago was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with murder.

A Kaneville, East Bank Demerara teenager was yesterday morning discovered dead in a trench at Craig, hours after he was reportedly attacked by persons in his community.

Indigenous rights activist and presidential candidate for the Liberty and Justice Party (LJP) Lenox Shuman has been struck off the List of Candidates for the March 2, 2020 elections after the seven-member Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) concluded that he still held Canadian citizenship on Nomination Day.

The Strathspey septuagenarian, who was brutally beaten during an attack on his family on Sunday morning by a businessman and his relatives yesterday succumbed to his injuries, police said.

Cuban medical specialists have confirmed that President David Granger’s medical examination shows that he has improved to their satisfaction and that he is in good health, according to a statement yesterday from the Ministry of the Presidency.

Change Guyana Presidential Candidate Robert Badal is promising to double the old age pension from $20,500 to $41,000 on his first day in office, and to implement a US$5 royalty on every tonne of bauxite shipped from Guyana if his party wins the coming election on 2nd March 2020. 

Minister within the Ministry of Communities Annette Ferguson has  filed a $60M lawsuit against Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo and the Guyana Times newspaper, over what she said are libelous statements made by the two, calculated to damage her character and reputation.

In his home village of Whim, Corentyne, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo last evening defended his government’s decision to close several sugar estates by saying that these were “absolutely useless as producing sugar estates.”

With just weeks to go before the March 2 general election, the caretaker APNU+AFC government is continuing to invite interest in major projects – this time for hydropower facilities to be financed by the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) to the tune of US$14.6m.

Two persons remain in custody as the police probe into the murder of newspaper vendor Shawn Mannilall continues and investigators are working to wrap up their investigation by tomorrow, Crime Chief (ag) Michael Kingston said.