Guyana News

A truck driver who reported to the police that he lost the money he was entrusted with by a businesswoman to buy food items was charged with simple larceny yesterday and granted bail.

A man was yesterday granted bail after denying a damage-to-property charge.

President David Granger today announced retroactive pay increases for public servants of between 8.5% to 9% and an increase in the minimum wage from $64,220 to $70,000.

UK explorer Tullow today said that oil found in two offshore wells in Guyana was heavy crude and the company and its partners would have to assess the commercial viability of the project.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) yesterday said that it was not involved in certifying  the four containers of assorted food items which were denied entry into Guyana by the Government Analyst-Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) last week.

Three men were on Monday afternoon attacked and robbed of a quantity of raw gold at the Matthews Ridge Airstrip and three of the four suspects, including a policeman, have since been arrested.

Several Region Five farmers and their attorney, Anil Nandlall, walked out of a Rice Assessment Committee (RAC) hearing yesterday after its Chairman overruled submissions against the body’s bona fides and impartiality. 

The 42-day Objection period of the 2019 Claims and Objections period ended on Monday with in excess of 13,000 objections lodged to the Preliminary Voters List (PVL).

The police are seeking the assistance of the public in locating a 26-year-old man who is wanted in connection with the murder of Festival City resident, Darrell Breedy, who was fatally shot during a home invasion in early October.

Brian Kayume, the University of Guyana (UG) student who is featured on a now viral video making racist jokes, says he is being victimised despite his numerous apologies.

A second vagrant was on Monday evening stabbed to death on Regent Street, Georgetown and the police have since arrested a Bourda resident for questioning.

The Change Guyana party yesterday announced that it would make sweeping across-the-board tax cuts should it be elected into office but it could not immediately say what measures would be implemented to cushion the likely deficits in revenue that would be created.

The Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) has filed legal proceedings to have approximately $1.5 million in foreign currency seized from a woman who had tried entering the country with the cash strapped to her thighs.

Brian Matheson, who has been remanded to prison on an attempted murder charge, yesterday presented the Chief Magistrate with a portrait of her that he created.

Terrence Joseph, the excavator operator who was shot and robbed on Monday afternoon while on duty at Sussex Street, Albouystown said that he was attacked by a lone gunman who approached him and opened fire without making any demands.

Naresh Samaroo was yesterday committed to stand trial at the High Court for the attempted murder of dog food vendor Shane Cooper, who was shot twice during a robbery last year.

A youth accused of stabbing his co-worker with a broken beer bottle was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with the crime.

A man yesterday admitted to killing his brother in 2016 following a row over their family shop in Sophia.

The Guyana Revenue Authority is expected to benefit from a reconstructed Licence Revenue Office, which it is  estimated will cost just over $164 Million.

Pritipaul Mohan, a 62-year-old man charged with raping a 13-year-old girl, will have to face another trial after a jury failed to reach a verdict yesterday afternoon on the evidence led against him.