Approximately 700 acres of the shuttered Wales Sugar Estate has been leased to the newly formed Amazonia Expert Services Limited (AESL) which has expressed the intention to enter the coconut industry.
In the wake of a number of accidents, Traffic Chief Linden Isles has warned drivers of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) over speeding and the abuse of vehicles assigned to them.
Renard Caesar and LaShawn Lewis were yesterday jointly charged with attempting to murder ex-policeman Teon Allen and both were further remanded to prison.
The claims aspect of the claims and objections process for the upcoming general and regional elections, which are slated for March 2nd, 2020, concluded last evening.
Six bandits, armed with high-powered weapons, were forced to abort a home invasion at midnight last Saturday after a Corentyne moneychanger opened fire on them.
Police Commissioner Leslie James says that an investigation has been launched into the suicide by a rape accused while he was in police custody at the Whim Police Station lockups.
The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) yesterday noted with “deep concern” the decision of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to have some 28,000 persons be removed from the voters’ list as they have not uplifted their National Identification Cards.
Minister within the Ministry of Public Infrastructure, Jaipaul Sharma on Friday morning met with residents of Houston and Agricola, East Bank Demerara who were assured that a road and major bridge will be examined by engineers shortly with a view to having them fixed.
Torrential rain flooded sections of the city yesterday but the water quickly receded from affected areas in central and north Georgetown after irrigation pumps operated by the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) were put into operation.
A Linden chicken farmer who allegedly robbed three persons living in Kuru Kururu while threatening them with a cutlass was remanded to prison on Friday after he was charged with armed robbery.
The National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) is notifying importers of Romaine lettuce of a temporary restriction on the commodity over concerns about the bacteria E.
Kevin Bruce, who was recently accused of pulling a gun on a policeman at a city station, yesterday learned that he will be spending the next two years in jail for having an unlicensed gun and ammunition.
Police in Region Five are moving to seek legal advice on possible charges over the killing of Bushy Park, East Coast Demerara (ECD) farmer David Micah.
A 24-year-old farmer who was allegedly found with 300 grammes of cannabis when police were attempting to arrest him for threatening a Friendship resident was granted bail on Friday after he denied all the charges against him.
Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman and a team visited and provided assistance to a Region Eight family last Thursday after complaints were made about them being unfairly treated by a miner in the area.
A security guard was released on $100,000 bail last Friday after he denied firing a shotgun in public and causing injuries to a woman who was hit in her eye and knee.
A youth is now remanded to prison after a city court heard that he went back to the location, where he allegedly committed a robbery, to seek employment.