Guyana News

Citing the need to preserve press freedom, the Inter-American Press Associat-ion (IAPA) has called on the Guyana Government to review its current distribution practice for official advertising to ensure that neither Stabroek News nor any other media house “is adversely affected.”

Food vendor Christopher Cummings was yesterday found guilty of trafficking 106 grammes of cannabis, for which he was sentenced to three years in jail.

Exhibits for the trial of former Guyana Rice Board Development (GRDB) accountant Peter Ramcharran, who is charged with allegedly falsifying the entity’s account, could not be located when the proceedings continued yesterday.

A porter has been charged with stealing a quantity of items amounting to $1.2 million from the store where he was employed.

A labourer accused of trafficking ecstasy pills was yesterday released on $200,000 bail after a court heard that the police were still awaiting an analyst certificate in order to proceed with the trial.

Donetta Rajkumar left the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts a free woman on Thursday after a charge that she stole $195,000 from the home of Minister Simona Broomes, at whose residence she was employed as a housekeeper, was dismissed.

The suspect in the murder of South Ruimveldt youth Kyle Chase has been discharged from the hospital and is currently in police custody.

Former GDF Chief of Staff Mark Phillips has been unanimously endorsed as the PPP/C’s prime ministerial candidate.

The Director of Prisons, Gladwin Samuels says that an attempt to break out of the Camp Street jail had been discovered today and the two suspected masterminds will be secured at another location.

Bishop Juan Edghill today said that he was standing down as a possible candidate for the prime ministerial candidate for the PPP/C at the upcoming general elections.

Citing the need to preserve press freedom, the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) has called on the Guyana Government to review its current practice of the distribution of official advertising to ensure “neither  Stabroek News or any other media house is adversely affected.”

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) yesterday confirmed that sugar production for 2019 had fallen below 100,000 tonnes and it acknowledged that there had been “major” mechanical failures at the Albion and Uitvlugt factories.

Separate fines of $1,000,066 (approximately US$5,000) will be levied against Spanish oil company Repsol and United Kingdom-headquartered Volaris Drilling for the recent mud-spill which occurred offshore in the Kanuku Block, Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Dr.

A 60-year-old painter died on Wednesday morning after suffering grisly injuries as a result of losing control of his motorcycle along the Montrose Public Road, on the East Coast of Demerara.

Five persons have been arrested in connection with the recent murders at the Corentyne hotel where the owner and a guard were found dead.

Britain’s Telegraph newspaper has listed Guyana as the number one country to visit out of a list of 20 countries to visit this year.

The year 2019 saw the passing of many notable sons and daughters of Guyana’s soil.

The UK‘s Tullow Oil plc yesterday announced that the Carapa-1 exploration well, drilled on the Repsol-operated Kanuku licence offshore Guyana, has encountered approximately four metres of net oil pay based on preliminary interpretation but that this is below pre-drill estimates.

A Berbice man, who was on trial at the High Court in Berbice for raping a minor in April, was earlier this week sentenced to 20 years imprisonment after he was found guilty of the crime by a jury.

A teen was remanded to the Juvenile Holding Centre at Sophia yesterday after being charged with wounding another teen in a skirmish that left one person dead at Port Kaituma.