Guyana News

DNA testing to verify whether charred remains found in a torched car more than a month ago are those of missing witness Colin Rodney Jr is still ongoing, according to Director of the Guyana Forensic Science Laboratory (GFSL) Delon France.

Members of the private sector will soon be able to benefit from the training provided by the Centre of Excellence in Information Technology (CEIT), Minister of Public Telecommunications Cathy Hughes has said.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) is offering a $5M reward for information leading to the arrest of anyone involved in the vandalizing of its fibre cables on the Linden Highway recently.

A number of families were displaced early this morning after a fire of unknown origin gutted three Bent Street, Wortmanville, Georgetown houses.

Speaking at concurrent media engagements President David Granger and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo told the public that Guyana’s sugar industry is viable but presented very different strategies for the continued operation of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo).

More than a week after he was charged with attempting to export over $7 million in raw gold without a licence, Vibert Marks appeared in a city court yesterday and was charged with attempting to bribe a Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) officer.

Fugitive Guyanese national Benvolio Francois Caitanya Valenski, who is wanted in Canada for a series of charges, including attempted murder, was yesterday arrested at the Guyana Revenue Authority’s Camp Street Office, where he attempted to secure a local driver’s licence, Commissioner-General Godfrey Statia has confirmed.

A 26-year-old Mabaruma farmer, who allegedly lashed a boat captain with a piece of wood, resulting in his death, was remanded to prison yesterday after he was charged with murder.

Eighty-one employees from Barama Company Limited were retrenched as the company looks to improve its profitability and sustain its future operations, General Manager Mohindra Chand told Stabroek News yesterday.

Thirty-five-year-old Jairam Lallman was ordered to serve a four-year sentence yesterday after he admitted to having over 100 pounds of cannabis in his possession.

Almost a month after residents of Port Kaituma began grappling with no electricity from the Port Kaituma Power and Light Company (PKPL), power was finally restored yesterday afternoon.

SOCU prosecutor questioned by police over failure to appear in rice case Public Security Minister, Khemraj Ramjattan says special prosecutor for the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), Lawrence Harris, is being questioned by police about his failure to appear in a matter in which six former Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) officials were charged with various offences. 

With a young Linden sports personality as the party’s latest public endorser, Change Guyana presidential candidate Robert Badal yesterday promised Lindeners to follow suit and support him as if elected he will ensure that equal developmental focus is placed in the region.

Prosville, a community on the outskirts of Linden, has finally received its own power supply system after a 15- year wait.

The trial of an East Canje, Berbice labourer, who is accused of murdering a United States-based Buxton woman in 2015, commenced on Wednesday.

The Ministry of Education yesterday said that it has noted a social media post which stated “East Coast Demerara primary school student beaten and sodomized by more than six students in school toilet”.

A man who was caught with over 400 grammes of cannabis was yesterday sentenced to two years in prison after he admitted to being a trafficker.

A party of police came under fire yesterday morning as they intercepted a suspected contraband activity at Belfield Foreshore, East Coast Demerara.

The trial for the Pike Street, Kitty man who was charged with murdering a vagrant in 2017 outside a Lamaha Street nightclub commenced on Tuesday at the High Court in Georgetown.

A 39-year-old farmer, who allegedly hit his drinking partner in order to separate him from his wife during a row, was remanded to prison for the offence yesterday when he appeared in a city court on an attempted murder charge.