Guyana News

Police officers yesterday during two separate operations in Alberttown, Georgetown arrested two persons who were found with 261 ecstasy pills and 8 grammes of Amphetamine drugs known as `Molly’.

The police today issued wanted bulletins for three men in connection with an armed robbery on November 2nd on Zhou Chumia, the proprietor of a supermarket at No.

ExxonMobil will take the first three liftings of crude oil from the country’s huge offshore deposits and Guyana will receive its share in its ground-breaking petroleum endeavour beginning around March next year.

Four containers of assorted food items which were imported from Canada were denied entry into Guyana by the Government Analyst-Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) and the department is preparing to institute legal proceedings against the importer, an East Coast Demerara businessman.

The Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the more than three-week-old accident along the Friendship, East Bank Demerara Public Road which claimed the lives of five persons has been completed and speeding by the police vehicle was excessive, according to President David Granger.

The Government of India will be doubling the the number of Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) Training Slots allocated to Guyana from the current 24 to 50 with immediate effect. 

GECOM is set to pave the way for persons who have not collected their identification cards to vote on elections day provided they take along additional identification, sources at the Commission say.

Veteran doctor Carl ‘Max’ Hanoman passed away last evening at a private city hospital, even as he was preparing to leave the country for Trinidad and Tobago for further medical treatment.

The Guyana Court of Appeal yesterday upheld a 28-year sentence on a man who killed an East La Penitence woman in 2006.

After managing to elude the police for more than six years, a 36-year-old gold miner who is accused of fatally stabbing his wife at Tenapu Backdam, North West District in 2013 was arrested on Tuesday.

A 19-year-old who was charged with three offences including resisting arrest was allowed his pre-trial freedom yesterday.

CARICOM says it is “saddened and concerned” by the deepening crisis in Haiti which has paralysed the normal functioning of all sectors of the country and created a situation of extreme hardship for the people.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Ltd has acknowledged that it is “experiencing some challenges” in its transition to the new banking system effective November 4.

The two Corentyne men who were wanted in connection with the murders of four fishermen during a recent pirate attack and who were recently arrested in Suriname have since been deported to Guyana.

Iris December of Mabaruma Township, North West District, lost a cousin to cervical cancer two years ago so when the Cancer Institute of Guyana (CIG) took its two-day cervical cancer outreach to the Mabaruma Hospital last week, she made an effort to be there.

Over 50 persons have registered for free online courses in repair and maintenance of heavy machinery being offered through a collaboration between the Machinery Corporation of Guyana Limited (MA-CORP) and the Ministry of Public Tele-communications (MoPT).

During his arraignment at a city court yesterday, Shamal Plass admitted to the illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition.

City councillors at last Monday’s statutory meeting raised concerns over the number of constables that were proceeding on vacation leave.

A man was yesterday remanded to prison after he denied a robbery with aggravation charge at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.

(Jamaica Observer) Supreme Ventures Group is putting much hope for increased profitability from its newest market, Guyana, where operations in the just-ended third quarter of 2019 recorded a massive loss of $53.7 million.