Guyana News

Advertisements from both the state and private sector are vital for the survival of the independent press, for which reductions pose a serious threat, according to President of the Guyana Press Association (GPA) Nazima Raghubir.

Defence attorney Nigel Hughes yesterday closed his case in the trial of former Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) accountant Peter Ramcharran, who is accused of falsifying the entity’s accounts.

The passenger who collapsed and died at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) on Sunday morning has been identified as a St Croix, US Virgin Islands teacher, Kodzo Ekpe.

Tenders were yesterday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the engineering, procurement and construction of Solar Photovoltaic (PV) power plants for Bartica and Lethem.

A Goedverwagting, East Coast Demerara man is presently in police custody after he allegedly attempted to hide an unlicensed firearm from law enforcement officers on Monday evening.

Former People’s Progressive Party/Civic  (PPP/C) parliamentarian Alister Charlie  was granted bail this morning after he was charged with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy and attempting to pervert the course of justice by paying the grandmother of the alleged victim $500,000 to drop the matter.

The family of Triumph resident Kevin Singh, 26, who was found dead with his girlfriend, Sabrina Nandram, 25, in a bathtub at the Aracari Hotel and Resort on Sunday, remains at a loss as to how he met his end.

A Plaisance shopkeeper was fatally stabbed early yesterday morning by a neighbour who had threatened to kill her after accusing her of putting a monkey to steal from him.

The A Partnership for National Unity+ Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) coalition will not be releasing the entire Revised Cummingsburg Accord to the general public, says APNU General Secretary, Joseph Harmon.

Linden resident Keon Lawson, who late last year was found guilty of raping a nine-year-old girl, was yesterday morning sentenced to spend the next 20 years behind bars by Sexual Offences Court judge Simone Morris-Ramlall.

Auditor General (AG) Deodat Sharma has highlighted a litany of irregularities in the execution of the 2015 Georgetown Restoration Programme, which has cost the treasury nearly a billion dollars over the four years it has existed.

Travis Evans, 25, was yesterday morning sentenced to three years behind bars for robbing a woman at knife point of more than half a million dollars a decade ago.

The St Joseph Mercy Hospital (SJMH) is now offering medications under its own brand name.

A cattle farmer was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with the murder of Black Bush rice farmer, Chanderpaul Navin Dhuman.

As the police work towards wrapping up their investigation of last Friday’s armed attack on a Tuschen Housing Scheme Chinese restaurateur, which left one suspect dead, they were granted approval by a court yesterday to further detain his three alleged accomplices who were taken into custody.

The police have been advised to institute criminal charges against former PPP/C Member of Parliament Alister Charlie, who has been accused of attempting to pervert the course of justice and sexual assault. 

Principal Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus yesterday announced that paper committal procedures would be used to decide on the charge against the two men accused of attempting to murder ex-policeman Teon Allen.

Residents of Bath Settlement Housing Scheme, West Coast Berbice yesterday morning rescued three children, who were home alone, from their burning house. 

Minister of Education Dr Nicolette Henry yesterday commissioned two new schools in Region One (Barima-Waini). 

An East La Penitence butcher was yesterday granted $40,000 bail after being charged with wrongfully restraining a man from conducting his business.