Guyana News

LaShawn Lewis, who remains unable to walk after being wounded in a shootout at La Penitence Market last month, was yesterday charged with the attempted murder of ex-policeman Teon Allen, called ‘Spoil Child,’ and remanded to prison.

A resident of Grove was yesterday sentenced to nine months in prison after he admitted to chopping a man who was taunting and provoking him.

The driver involved in the Essequibo Coast accident that claimed the life of 21-year-old pedal cyclist Govindra Persaud was on Thursday charged with causing his death.

With assistance from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Ministry of Public Health on Thursday officially launched its latest mass drug administration campaign to eliminate lymphatic filariasis.

The discovery of a mysterious substance oozing from the ground at the home of a Parika, East Bank Essequibo family, has led the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) and other agencies to launch an investigation.

Guyana’s first Agri-Tourism Expo is underway and exhibitors are excited to have their locally made products on display.

Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) Leslie Sobers says that the regulatory body is preparing to initiate action in the High Court to recover over $10 million in fees from broadcasters.

Dipcon Engineering Services Limited has appealed a decision by Justice Damone Younge to set aside a default judgment handed down against Finance Minister Winston Jordan. 

A 38-year-old Bartica resident, who was tried in absentia, was on Thursday sentenced to six months in jail for stealing a metal grill door.

Republic Financial Holdings Limited (RFHL) today announced that it completed the acquisition of seven Scotiabank operations in the Caribbean yesterday.

A deal being hammered out between governing coalition partners APNU and the AFC to save the Cummingsburg Accord would see the AFC prime minister not becoming President were that position to become vacant.

Salt water from the recent spring tides has entered the rice lands in the Mahaicony Backlands and farmers are unsure of future cultivation since the land has become salted and will not be able to sustain growth.

Australian miner Troy Resources is reporting third quarter gold output of 10,042 ounces and says it won’t restart operations at its Region Seven mine until it is satisfied it can do so with certainty.

As more locals tap into benefits from the emerging oil and gas sector, John Fernandes Limited has partnered with industrial services firm, the Baker Hughes Company (BHC) to provide onshore support services here.

Nearly 40 years after the death of Walter Rodney, his widow Pat Rodney, is again calling on government to make public the report from the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) done on his June 13, 1980 death and to provide the public with a truthful account of his demise.

The press freedom attack by the government on Stabroek News via the Department of Public Information (DPI) will enter its fourth month today with the newspaper not having received a single advertisement from the agency in October.

Former Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) accountant Peter Ramcharran, who is on trial for allegedly falsifying the entity’s account, is expected to lead his defence later this month.

Kevin Stephens, the former MMC Security Force guard who admitted to killing a colleague during an argument in 2016, was on Tuesday sentenced to 12 years in prison.

A twenty-eight-year-old man of Unity, Mahaica was yesterday charged with the murder of his cousin, Arvin ‘Krishna’ Dipchand of Dochfour, East Coast Demerara (ECD).

Former Attorney General Anil Nandlall is challenging the validity of the Region Five Rice Assessment Committee and its authority to determine any claim before it, owing in part to the non-appointment of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC), which is required to advise on its Chairman.