Guyana News

The Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Co Ltd (GTT) has signed an agreement with the University of Guyana (UG) to have a vendor top-up machine installed at the Turkeyen campus.

Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) officers last night intercepted an East Canje man on Mandela Avenue with 102 lbs of suspected marijuana.

GAWU says that thousands of sugar workers at the Albion, Blairmont and Uitvlugt Estates have downed tools as they heightened their call for a pay rise.

ExxonMobil’s local subsidiary Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) has applied to the Environmental Protection Agency for authorization to drill some 31 wells in three offshore blocks.

Following an organisational restructuring, career diplomat Charlene Phoenix has been named the new administrative head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while five overseas mission heads are to be replaced.

Surveillance camera footage confirms that the Route 31 minibus that collided with a car last Saturday along the Nismes, West Bank Demerara public road, resulting in four deaths, was speeding at the time.

It has been four years since the Guyana Prize for Literature was last awarded and members of the literary community have begun to despair that the Prize will ever be resurrected.

After spending 26 years behind bars for the murder of a man whom they strangled and stabbed to the neck, brothers Daniel and Kornel Vaux were yesterday released on parole after Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan signed licences for their release which was recommended by the Parole Board.

Magistrate Alex Moore yesterday said that the preliminary inquiry (PI) into charge against Marcus Brian Bisram, the alleged mastermind behind the murder of a Corentyne carpenter, would be conducted by way of paper committal proceedings, which he said could be completed before the end of the year.

Four men, including three accused of raping children, were yesterday freed of the sexual offence charges against them after the state disclosed that the respective complainants could not be located over a number of years.

A police investigation has been launched into the death of a gold miner whose lifeless body was discovered in an old mining pit at Macurie Backdam, Mazaruni River on Saturday.

The body of a 53-year-old farmer was yesterday morning found floating in the Pomeroon River and it is suspected that he might have drowned.

To mark World AIDS Day, which was observed on Sunday, the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) in partnership with newly established private clinic Midway Specialty Care Centre yesterday launched the Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) service to stop new HIV infections in Guyana.

The expected ruling by Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire on the challenge by the Berbice Bridge Company Incorporated (BBCI) to the government’s takeover of the operations of the bridge has been deferred until December 18th.

To provide support to oil and gas operators here, Houston, Texas-headquartered subsea engineering and applied technology firm Oceaneering has established an office in Guyana.

A man was jailed on Friday for three years after he pleaded guilty to maliciously wounding his ex-fiancée.

A gold miner, who police say was busted at the Kingston Wharf with a quantity of cannabis stashed inside a music set, was remanded to prison by a city magistrate yesterday.

Vendors on Regent Street are calling on the Mayor and City Council to put systems in place to prevent market revenue collectors from harassing them, requesting bribes and demanding that they sell from 6am to 6pm during the Christmas season or move.

Dr. Patrick Chesney, an agriculture and environment specialist, said that if climate change continues at its current rates, Guyana will experience shorter, more intense rains during rainy seasons, and dryer, longer droughts.

A man was on Friday granted bail after he denied stealing 200 shirts.