Guyana News

Two East Canje, Berbice men were last week each sentenced to four years in prison after they pleaded guilty to robbing several persons at a Canefield Settlement beer garden and supermarket back in April.

The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) has expressed concern at the withdrawal of state advertisements by the Department of Public Information (DPI) from Stabroek News and the Guyana Times.

A bus driver was on Friday charged with storing provocative pictures of a man and woman and he was granted his release on a total of $120,000 bail after denying any wrongdoing.

A taxi driver of Ruby, East Bank Essequibo was yesterday morning shot in his head during a robbery on Leopold Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown.

A shopkeeper and a labourer were both charged last Friday with possession of ecstasy pills for the purpose of trafficking.

President David Granger on Sunday evening told the residents of Victoria village that they should be proud of their village’s history as their ancestors, despite their struggles, persevered and pioneered economic independence and democratic empowerment.

Donne Dojoy, the Guyanese woman who was fatally stabbed in Queens, New York last Friday was previously assaulted by her estranged husband Dineshwar Budhidat in August and had an order of protection out against him.

Vabita Arjune, 50, was hit by car late last month and died on Thursday.

The price for fuel in Region One continues to drastically affect communities there, Regional Chairman Brentnol Ashley yesterday told Stabroek News.

Two students of the Guyana Industrial Training Centre (GITC) have been awarded grants by the Small Business Bureau to make their ideas for businesses a reality.

An intelligence-led operation conducted by ranks of the Regional Police Division Four (A), under the command of an Assistant Superintendent yesterday unearthed 1,076 grams of suspected cannabis.

Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Irwin LaRocque wants the cost of natural disaster insurance to be more affordable.

A labourer who stole more than $1.5 million in articles from the home of a woman was on Friday sentenced to 14 months in prison after a city magistrate found him guilty of the offence.

A young man was fined on Friday for stealing two bicycles.

A larceny accused, who is already serving a four-month sentence for stealing a phone, on Friday tried to negotiate for a similar sentence if he admitted to a similar crime.

The Guyana Fire Service has launched an investigation to determine the cause of an early morning fire which gutted a Coldingen Industrial Estate building today.

The  deadline given to the Alliance for Change’s negotiators by its constituency for a new Cummingsburg Accord with APNU expired yesterday but having failed to reach consensus on the proposed terms, the two governing coalition partners will have a final meeting on Thursday which will “ultimately decide” if they split for the 2020 General Elections, sources say.

Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan yesterday said that the impending increase to public servants’ salaries this year, will take the overall hike to an all-time high of 75% since 2015.

Chairwoman of the Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM), Justice Claudette Singh, says GECOM is anticipating the assistance of two  experts from Ghana and India.

Eastern Airlines was granted approval to operate here after it committed to lodging  two huge bonds with the government and the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA).