Guyana News

An 18-year-old mini-bus conductor was released on bail after he denied stealing a cellphone on Croal Street when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday.

Aleena Mohamed, the one-year-old whose body was found in a trench behind her Harlem, West Coast Demerara (WCD) home on Monday afternoon, died from asphyxiation due to drowning, an autopsy yesterday revealed.

Burglars sometime between Tuesday evening and yesterday morning, stole over $400,000 in items from a Cumberland, Berbice store, including over $150,000 in cigarettes.

A 36-year-old man who is the key witness in the murder of his cousin has been missing almost a week now and his mother fears that he might be in danger due to the importance he played in the case now before the court.

O’Brian Fraser and Anonth Boodrage are wanted by the police for questioning in relation to the Piracy/Murder committed on Lamar Petrie, Vishnu Seeram, Kawal Kissoon and Marvin Tamesar on the  Corentyne River between October 5 and 13, this year.

Over 25,000 persons could be excluded from the 2020 Official List of Electors (OLE) if they do not uplift their national identification cards, some of which have been sitting uncollected at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) since 2008.

The Change Guyana political party was officially launched last evening with its presidential candidate Robert Badal making a call for voters to embrace what he called the visionary leadership needed to create jobs and reduce poverty.

A teenager has been charged with the murder of Guyana Defence Force (GDF) rank Olijah Chesney, who was allegedly killed over the purchase of a motorcycle just over two weeks ago.

Spring tides yesterday battered the door of a koker at Stewartville, Region Three and posed a threat of major flooding in neighbouring communities.

A Corentyne woman is now missing after she left home on Diwali night to head to a nearby Mandir to offer prayers.

Lennox Roberts, the second man who the police had said was wanted for questioning in relation to the murder of Golden Grove resident David Gentle was yesterday charged with the crime and remanded to prison.

The police in Region 3 (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara) are probing the death of a one-year-old, who is suspected to have drowned in a trench behind her Harlem, West Coast Demerara (WCD) home on Monday afternoon.

Convicted child rapist Selwyn Lancaster was yesterday sentenced to spend the next 15 years in prison for his crimes by Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall.

Tenders were yesterday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the construction of the Yarrowkabra Secondary School, Linden-Soesdyke Highway.

Two men have confessed to investigators that they were a part of a five-man fishing crew that was behind the recent piracy attack which left two Corentyne fishermen dead and two missing.

A Port Mourant, Corentyne upper flat apartment was destroyed yesterday by a fire, suspected to be of electrical origin, leaving a family of seven seeking help to find a new home.

Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall yesterday imposed an 18-year sentence on a man who was found guilty of raping a child under the age of 16.

Essequibo couple Dhanraj and Kamwattie Rambaran, who were charged in April with trafficking two Venezuelan women, have been freed after a court upheld a no-case submission made by their attorney.

The police are preparing to charge a Patentia, West Bank Demerara (WBD) man with several offences including possession of an illegal firearm.

A 21-year-old man is now dead and one of his friends was critically injured after the motor car in which they were in crashed into a parked vehicle along the La Bonne Intention (LBI), East Coast Demerara Public Road on Saturday afternoon.