Guyana News

President David Granger yesterday emphasised that Guyana must not only prepare for an oil economy but also prepare for the post-oil economy, which, he said, is expected to be fueled by agro-processing.

A pensioner, believed to have been strangled with her mosquito net, was found dead on Thursday evening at her Bourda Street, Georgetown house.

Autopsies performed on the bodies of Ian and Rakesh Matthias, the two brothers whose bullet-riddled bodies were found on Shell Beach, in Region One on Thursday, have confirmed that they both died from multiple gunshot wounds and investigators believe they were tortured prior to being killed.

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) yesterday announced new regulations for the importation of electrical installation products with those that fall below the standards set liable to be seized when enforcement begins on February 1 next year.

The Caucus of Indigenous Peoples (CIP) was officially launched on the final day of the 13th National Toshaos Council (NTC) conference yesterday.

Commissiong and Company Limited of Trinidad plans to take legal action against the Guyana Oil Company (GUYOIL) for alleged wrongful termination of three contracts.

Fed up with complaints from the public about the time-consuming service at the National Insurance Scheme (NIS), Minister of Finance Winston Jordan has charged the staff to change their attitudes.

Five more Indigenous communities, Kangaruma and Tasserene, in Region Seven, Yupukari, in Region Nine, and St.

Almost two years after being charged with the unlawful possession of a semi-automatic rifle, a man was yesterday found guilty of the crime and sentenced to two years in jail.

A policeman was one of two men charged in a city court yesterday with possession of over 50 pounds of cannabis for trafficking.

A serving member of the Guyana Police Force was yesterday brought before a city court on a charge of attempting to obtain money from a woman by pretending he was in a position to get her a house lot.

A man was remanded to prison yesterday after a city court heard that he not only broke and entered a woman’s home and stole articles worth over $1 million but that he was also suspected of several similar crimes and was being investigated for murder.

After almost four hours of deliberation, a 12-member jury was last night unable to come to a verdict in the trial of Abishai Caesar, the barber who was charged with killing a woman and her two children at Anna Catherina in 2012.

The body of an unidentified man was discovered yesterday morning on the foreshore of the Abary River and police in Region Five have launched an investigation.

Tifaine Rutherford, a former reporter at the Stabroek News, yesterday traded her pen, recorder, and notepads for a robe and sombre-coloured suits with her admission to the Guyana Bar as one of its newest attorneys-at-law. 

Venezuelan migrants and the revision of the Amerindian Act were among the major issues raised when several government ministers engaged toshaos and participants of the 13th National Toshaos Council (NTC) conference on Thursday.

When Savitri Basdeo was contacted and told she had won the grand prize in the Sunshine Snacks’ Caribbean Premier League (CPL) promotion, an all-expense paid trip for two to Trinidad for today’s finals, she thought she was being pranked.

The Regional Democratic Council (RDC) Chairperson of Region Four Genevieve Allen yesterday encouraged students from a number of secondary schools from the East Coast of Demerara to build self-confidence and self-esteem in themselves during a programme which was held in observance of International Day of the Girl Child.

The Police today said that they are investigating the murder of Marva Oudkerk, 67, a pensioner of Lot 241 Bourda Street, Georgetown which occurred at the said address between 4.30 pm  on October 9 and 6.30 pm on October 10, 2019.

In the wake of a fatal accident at its Karouni mine in Region Seven, Australian mining company Troy Resources Limited today applied for a halt of trading of its securities in its home country pending an announcement on its operations here.