Guyana News

Special Prosecutor Lawrence Harris’ absence at the most recent hearings for the now dismissed Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) proceedings against former Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) officers may have been due to him not being paid for several months, a source has said.

Talks between A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance for Change (AFC) have stalled following the former’s apparent unwillingness to accept Khemraj Ramjattan as the coalition’s 2020 Prime Ministerial (PM) candidate.

People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) presidential candidate Irfaan Ali says he is not fazed by the formation of new parties  and their possible impact on his chances at the upcoming general elections.

A 35-year-old businessman was beaten to death on Tuesday night during a misunderstanding at Unity, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara (ECD) and his cousin has since been arrested by the police.

The 45-year-old man who admitted to chopping his wife to death in a 2016 attack at the Bygeval Secondary School was yesterday sentenced to 22 years in prison for manslaughter  and eight years for wounding his wife’s cousin, Brenda Thomas.

A West Coast Berbice man was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with the murder of rice farmer, Godfrey Adolphus Pluck Reynolds.

The Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) on Thursday secured a High Court order for the civil forfeiture of foreign and local currency which amounted to over $16 million.

The man whose partly decomposed body was found in a trench at Patentia, West Bank Demerara on Monday morning with a plastic bag over his head has been positively identified and the police have since arrested his neighbour who confessed to the crime.

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Rashleigh Jackson was rescued from his burning Republic Park, East Bank Demerara home around mid-day yesterday after a fire of unknown origin gutted a section of the building.

While questions remain about PPP/C presidential candidate Irfaan Ali’s first set of academic credentials, he is listed as a graduand for a Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of the West Indies (UWI) and was to have graduated yesterday at the St Augustine Campus in Trinidad.

A Venezuelan businessman who was allegedly trying to sell ammunition to the residents of Arau, Region Seven, was yesterday remanded to prison after he failed to give the court a fixed place of abode.

Republic Bank (Guyana) is advising its customers of the implementation of a new banking platform to take effect on November 04, 2019.

With a commitment from Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) to a scheduled overhaul of its plants and works currently ongoing, the Environmental Protection Agen-cy (EPA) believes the company is setting an environmental oversight standard for all to follow.

The Department of Labour of the Ministry of Social Protection is to conciliate in a dispute between GuySuCo and GAWU at Blairmont pertaining to a controversial promotion.

A 29-year-old Venezuelan who allegedly held a knife to a woman’s throat in Mabaruma before robbing her of her money was yesterday remanded to prison.

The Ministry of Natural Resources  (MoNR) yesterday commissioned its first Warden Station at Dagg Point, Bartica.

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Karen Cummings will represent Guyana at the XVIII Summit of Heads of States and Government of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) scheduled to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan on October 25 and 26.

President David Granger returned to the country last night from Cuba having completed a scheduled medical evaluation at CIMEQ over the past few days and his medical specialists have said that he is in remission from Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, a release from the Guyana mission in Havana said today.

Members of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) say that Chairman, Justice (retired) Claudette Singh has been called upon to make a definitive decision on the use of the date collected during the recent House to House exercise (HtH).

Days after the police issued a wanted bulletin for Shane ‘Demon’ Morgan, the suspected mastermind of last week’s attempted robbery outside of El Dorado Trading that left gold miner Deon Stoll dead, he was arrested at a roadblock along the East Coast of Demerara (ECD).