Investigators believe that there might be a link between last month’s shooting at Linden which claimed the life of Ian Williams and that from last Saturday which left one man injured at the East La Penitence market.
The Guyana Prison Service (GPS) recently held a week-long celebration in observation of its 36th Anniversary with great emphasis being placed on the rehabilitation of the 1917 prisoners now in the system.
The police are on the hunt for a person of interest in the murder of Darrell Breedy, the Festival City man who was shot dead last Saturday after masked bandits invaded his home.
The trial of the former soldier accused of decapitating his uncle in 2017 in what he claimed was an act of self defence commenced yesterday in the High Court.
The police are awaiting statements from three persons to complete a file on the September 23rd boat crash in the Essequibo River that left three persons dead which will then be sent for legal advice to determine whether the two boat captains involved will be charged.
A man who was allegedly part of a gang that robbed a woman on New Market Street last month, was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday.
A woman, who is a witness in a murder case, was released on bail when she appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday accused of having marijuana in her room for trafficking.
A beggar, who apologised in court for using threatening behaviour towards a hospital guard, was fined for the offence when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday.
Guyana will soon be the beneficiary of $1 billion (€ 4.5 million) under the “Spotlight initiative”, a joint European Union and United Nations partnership to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls worldwide.
A nineteen-year old labourer of Melanie Damishana, East Coast Demerara (ECD), was charged with the murder of Golden Grove resident David Gentle yesterday morning.
The Guyana Elections Commission has processed more than 2,000 new registrations over the one week that the Claims and Objections process has been ongoing.
With significant revenues expected from imminent oil production, the Bank of Guyana (BoG) has started preparation to insulate the economy from inflation and is receiving help from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Caribbean Technical Assistance Centre (CARTAC).
Guyana’s Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) with ExxonMobil’s subsidiary is not very different from other frontier oil countries, according to the International Monetary Fund which says that a key focus now should be on how the revenues accrued are spent.
A geologist at Australian-owned mining company Troy Resources died yesterday morning after a cave where he was working collapsed at its Karouni operation in Region Seven and the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) has been instructed to carry out a thorough investigation.
A Guyanese is the valedictorian of the Hugh Wooding Law School’s (HWLS) graduate class of 2019 as Guyanese took that honour and several coveted prizes during the school’s graduation and award ceremony, which was held last Saturday in Trinidad.