Guyana News

The Guyana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GYEITI) yesterday hosted a workshop aimed at examining ways to improve transparency and accountability in Guyana’s extractive resources sector.

Samuel Hinds Jr. last week heard that five charges against him, including assaulting a policeman, were discharged after a no-case submission made by his lawyer was upheld by a city magistrate.

Days after he reportedly admitted to killing his neighbour before dumping his body in a nearby trench at Patentia, Sundar Singh was yesterday charged with manslaughter and released on $600,000 bail.

A murder convict will be returning to jail after he was given a three-year sentence yesterday for wounding a co-worker in an attack with a cutlass.

A 17-year-old is feared dead after he went missing while swimming in the Puruni area yesterday.

Presidential Guard Travis Fullington, one of two survivors from the horrendous October 15th Friendship, East Bank Demerara crash, has been discharged from the hospital, Traffic Chief Linden Isles confirmed yesterday.

Sleep-In International Hotel and Casino Inc has filed an application in the High Court seeking to compel the Gaming Authority to “consider” and “determine” an application made by the hotel since 2017 for a Casino Premises Licence and a Casino Operator’s Licence.

Attorney Anil Nandlall on Wednesday filed a notice of appeal, signaling his intention to appeal the High Court’s decision on his application to compel Cabinet’s resignation.

The Police say they are investigating the murder  of Shurlon Errol Cutting, age 48 years, a sailor of lot 2529 Layou Street, North Ruimveldt which occurred yesterday about 6.30 pm at the Parika Ferry Stelling by a 28 year-old labourer of lthaca  Village, West Bank Berbice who is in custody assisting with the investigation.

Disputing that he is a supporter of any of the parties in the governing APNU+AFC coalition, Change Guyana presidential candidate Robert Badal said that his party will not coalesce with either APNU+AFC or the PPP/C but has not ruled out  joining with smaller parties.

Two of the men charged with killing Constance Fraser, 89 and Phyllis Caesar, 77, in 2017 were yesterday handed life sentences each with the possibility of parole after serving 35 years.

Talks between governing coalition partners APNU and the AFC  for a 2020 elections pact have stalled over the former’s apparent unwillingness to accept the latter’s nominee for the post of prime minister, posing the most serious threat  yet to the Cummingsburg Accord which led to the removal of the PPP/C in the 2015 polls.

With more spring tides forecast from today, the Sea and River Defence Department of the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MoPI) is assuring that it will seek to cushion the impact of expected flooding in coastal communities, including those still vulnerable due to exposed sections of the Mahaicony sea defence.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo is calling on the Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), retired Justice Claudette Singh, to address the public and clear any and all misunderstanding on decisions made by the commission.

A witness on Wednesday identified murder accused Rajen Dindial as the person who used a paddle to repeatedly hit the now deceased Alston Henry multiple times until he was no longer moving.

A Guyanese man is now sitting in a New York jail after he was busted at the John F Kennedy International Airport earlier this week on suspicion that he ingested cocaine.

A Toopoo Village, Coren-tyne man lost his life on Wednesday after he fell into the Toopoo Pump Station canal.

A youth was remanded to prison on Wednesday after he was accused of using a knife to rob a woman of her money and cellphone before giving her $200 to get home.

A man who told a court that he was going to exchange the marijuana found on him for a cellphone was remanded to prison on Wednesday.

A fire during the wee hours of yesterday gutted the top flat of a North-East La Penitence, Georgetown home which was occupied by two sisters who are visiting from the US.