Guyana News

A Canje woman was remanded to prison yesterday on an attempted murder charge after she allegedly doused her boyfriend with a pot of hot oil on Thursday afternoon at her Gangaram Village, East Canje Berbice, house.

City Hall workers, including the Treasurer, have been formally suspended by the Local Government Commission (LGC) following the completion of an investigation of the discovery of a bag of money in a vehicle assigned to the Constabulary.

Attorney General (AG) Basil Williams yesterday morning reiterated previously advanced arguments that Guyanese outside of Guyana, whether residing or otherwise, cannot be allowed to vote unless they are resident in Guyana at the qualifying date of registration.

The police in Region 8 (Potaro-Siparuni) are probing the disappearance of four children who have been missing for more than a week now.

City councillors yesterday decided that the council should examine keeping its options open and making properties that the city owns profitable after a discussion on possibly leasing the city’s Constabu-lary Training Centre on Water Street. 

Defence attorney Glenn Hanoman yesterday asked acting Chief Magistrate, Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus for the legal proceedings against Marcus Bisram, who is accused of directing the murder of a Corentyne carpenter, to be dealt with in Georgetown rather than being transferred back to a Berbice court.

The farming community of Mibicuri located in Black Bush Polder, Corentyne, Berbice is now equipped with a standalone modern health centre, the Depart-ment of Public Information (DPI) said yesterday.

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.,  (Reuters) – The man of Guyanese parentage accused of stabbing at least five people in a machete rampage at the home of a Hasidic rabbi during a Hanukkah celebration could face a death penalty trial if one of his alleged victims, still in a coma, dies, a judge said yesterday.

Seven Haitian nationals, who claimed they did not know the immigration procedures, were yesterday fined by acting Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus after they admitted to illegally exiting from Guyana.

An Essequibo motorcyclist is currently hospitalised in a serious condition after he collided with a parked motor canter along the Middlesex Public Road, Essequibo Coast on Saturday night.

A man was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with the attempted murder of a Semang Landing miner.

Residents of Linden are poised to enjoy additional relief from the dust pollution caused by bauxite mining as Chinese bauxite mining company, Bosai Minerals Group (Guyana) Inc.

Two men were refused bail yesterday by acting Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus after they were charged with robbing a man who had planned to sell one of them an iPhone.

Two men who police say were found with 169 grammes of cannabis were charged at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts yesterday.

General Secretary of the PPP, Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday flayed President David Granger for dictatorial tendencies  and going against the constitution as he launched scathing attacks against the governing APNU+AFC coalition in front of thousands of supporters at an Albion, Berbice rally.

With over 36,000 Venezuelans having arrived in Guyana due to the crisis in their country, the demand for a sustainable food supply is higher in Region One, where thousands have settled, Regional Chairman Brentnol Ashley has said.

PPP/C Prime Ministerial candidate Mark Phillips yesterday slammed the governing coalition which he said was running scared and desperate and he also took aim at APNU’s Joseph Harmon for saying that he was an ethnic token.

Construction of the Itabac Primary School in Region Eight remains incomplete with the site abandoned while overpayments amounting to $6.4 million were made for the construction of a nurses hostel in Mahdia which is still to be completed, according to the Auditor General’s report for the 2018 fiscal year.

Chartered accountant Tameshwar Lilmohan says that the prognosis for renegotiating the much-criticised 2016 Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) with ExxonMobil’s subsidiary is very bleak and Guyana’s best chance would be to seek a “good faith and conscionable review” for fair and equitable terms from the partners to the deal.

Change Guyana Prime Ministerial candidate Nigel Hinds yesterday withdrew from the ticket citing his dual citizenship and a likely medical condition he learnt of in November last year.