Guyana News

A new, more durable and secure version of the plastic card driver’s licence will soon be launched by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) for drivers.

President David Granger today said that he was deeply distressed by what he said was the “insane” rise in road fatalities and called on members of the public to observe the Guyana Police Force’s code of behaviour.

Rachel Cook, Program Advisor from the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs at the U.S.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has decided to extend indefinitely the time within which around 18,000 persons can collect their national identification (ID) cards since a mere 805 have showed up during the 21 days previously announced.

While global oilfield services provider Halliburton has established an office at Eccles on the East Bank of Demerara and hired local staff, the company plans to lay off some 800 workers in the United States at its El Reno operations and close its Oklahoma City office, the Associated Press (AP) yesterday reported.

A fatal accident on the Meadow Bank Public Road in the vicinity of the Ruimveldt Industrial site, last night claimed the life of an 18-year-old student of the Bertram Collins College of Public Service and left a second person injured.

Over 3,000 sugar workers across the country began a strike yesterday for an increase in wages and salaries, which they have not been granted over the past five years as a result of what they believe is clear discrimination.

Residents of Aishalton, in Region Nine, have said that the worsening state of a bridge linking South Rupununi communities to Lethem is putting them in peril during every journey to the township.

Jamal Forde, the 26-year-old man who was accused of murdering a Sophia businessman in 2015, was yesterday freed after a no-case submission put forward by his attorneys was upheld.

The Police have been advised to charge former policeman Teon Allen and the other men who were nabbed last Tuesday after they allegedly attempt to elude law enforcement officers.

Steve Bacchus, the man who was wanted in connection with the illegal weapons and cannabis found at the North Sophia home of his uncle and his wife, was yesterday released on bail after he was charged with having possession of six grammes of cannabis.

A Helena, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara man on Tuesday admitted to killing his common-law wife, whose badly decomposed body was found in a trench in 2016.

Guyanese businessman Andrew Mendes has been named as a recipient of the Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Awards for Excellence for 2020.

A man accused of having 98 pounds of cannabis in his possession is now a remanded prisoner after being charged with possession of narcotics for trafficking.

Investigators are in possession of “sensitive” information and are hoping for a breakthrough soon as they continue to probe the more than one-week-old Agricola, East Bank Demerara (EBD) shooting which left one man dead and a teenager wounded.

John Holder, the police constable charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice in the attempted murder case involving Maryann Daby, was yesterday told that he has to lead a defence.

Non-governmental organisation Saving Hands Emergency Aid (SHEA) is currently seeking the public’s help to raise funds for 22-month-old Avisha Best, who has been diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) and is in need of urgent medical treatment in the United States.

The Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) recently launched its Citizen Monitoring Programme which will identify and report shortcomings and infractions committed by broadcasters.

The matter of the dismissed female employee of Kalibur Security that was at the core of the recent friction between that company and the Region Ten Regional Democratic Council (RDC) has been resolved with the employee’s reinstatement.

Tenders were yesterday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the procurement of construction materials for the Guyana Prison Service.