Guyana News

A minibus driver was released on bail on Friday after he denied wounding a man during a fight on Hadfield Street.

A man was sentenced to two years and six months in prison for breaking into a home and stealing a quantity of items amounting to over three hundred thousand dollars.

Several armed men last evening attempted to rob a moneychanger at Number 69 Village, Corentyne and one of them may have been wounded.

For more than 15 years, the number of persons who died in the violence that followed the February 23rd, 2002 Camp Street jailbreak and the circumstances of their deaths have been the sources of heated disputation.

A Bushy Park, East Coast Demerara (ECD) farmer was brutally chopped to death on Saturday night after he tried to calm a man who was allegedly on his way to attack another man.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) is anticipating that consensus on the terms of a new Cummingsburg Accord could be reached by the end of this week with its coalition partner A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and has set next Sunday as the date by which that agreement would be signed.

Water from the recent spring tides that flooded yards and farmlands in the villages of Harmony Hall, Rebecca’s Rust and surrounding areas have begun to recede and residents are calling on the Ministry of Public Health to conduct a medical outreach in the affected communities to treat persons who may have contracted any diseases.

A Diamond, East Bank Demerara, man who was arrested in Berbice on Saturday for allegedly raping a young relative, hanged himself in the Whim Police Station lockups hours after being arrested.

The procurement process for a firm to audit the more than US$960 million ExxonMobil said it racked up in pre-contract costs here is nearly completed, Director of the Department of Energy Dr Mark Bynoe says.

It would be illegal to merge data from the recent house-to-house registration process with existing electoral lists and any attempt will “contaminate the entire electoral process,” former Attorney General and PPP/C executive Anil Nandlall says.

A teen’s celebration of his 18th birthday ended tragically when his bloodied body was found on a road, hours after he left a bar in Aranaputa, Region Nine.

Parliamentary democracy in Guyana has been collateral damage in government’s resort to the courts to stave off the effects of the no-confidence motion passed against the David Granger-led administration on December 21 last year, So said Opposition Leader Bharat Jagdeo at a press conference last week.

Recently reinstated Assistant Commissioner of Police Simon McBean has been assigned as the Commander of Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara) effective from Friday.

A police pickup yesterday morning crashed into two utility poles and a newly-constructed shop at Perseverance, East Coast Demerara and the driver of the vehicle has been arrested.

Rajen Dindial, who is accused of killing a man outside a Grove wedding house, is expected to lead his defence after a judge overruled a no-case submission that was made on his behalf.

Guyana has joined the International Offshore Petroleum Environment Regulators (IOPER), an international regulators group whose help it will be seeking as it accelerates preparations for crucial oversight of the oil and gas sector as the expected start of production has been moved to next month. 

The police will be seeking to obtain DNA samples for testing in order to confirm whether the charred remains that were found in the trunk a torched car at Mahaicony on Friday afternoon are indeed those of Colin Rodney Jr, a key witness in a murder case who went missing over a week ago.

Commissioner of Police Leslie James has said that while there has been a recent spike in crime, he is “not bothered” because the Guyana Police Force has recorded an overall drop in serious crimes.

Two Corentyne men who were wanted in connection with the murders of four fishermen during a recent pirate attack have since been arrested in Suriname.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) Fredrick Flatts has said an eight-foot dam, between Fairfield and Dantzig, Region Five, will soon be built to ease the suffering of Mahaica-Berbice residents who have been devastated by recent spring tides.