Guyana News

A Brazilian family lost their home in a fire along Oronoque Street, Queens-town yesterday afternoon.

A Guyanese who allegedly attempted to smuggle over two pounds of cocaine into the US in an effort to settle a debt was busted at the John F.

The Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) says it has been consulted on the restructuring and reorganizing of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC).

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure has deemed the Pirara bridge in Region 9 inaccessible following damage to a beam, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said on Saturday.

Business process outsourcing company Emerge BPO is forging ahead with the development of a new Georgetown campus, which is expected to increase its capacity to serve the needs of the industry.

On November 8th, the British High Commission celebrated the 100th birth anniversary of Cy Grant at a function hosted at the High Commis-sioner’s Residence in Bel Air Gardens.

A two-day-old baby boy died on Monday morning, hours after he reportedly fell out of a hammock at his Morabisi Creek, Mouth Island, Issano, Middle Mazaruni River home.

Seventeen employees were honoured for their 20 years of service to Banks DIH Limited at the Company’s Annual 20-Year-Club Luncheon held on Friday November 8th 2019 at Thirst Park.

The Kwakwani Workers’ Club in the Upper Demerara-Berbice Region has been recommissioned and handed back to the community, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said yesterday.

As the Guyana Elections Commission prepares for the holding of General and Regional Elections on March 2, 2020 efforts are being made to work with the Ethnic Relations Commissions (ERC) to improve the Media Monitoring capabilities of both agencies.

One year after the position of Chancellor became vacant at the University of Guyana (UG), the council has selected Professor Edward Greene, former UN Special Envoy and CARICOM Deputy Secretary-General, as the new Chancellor.

Migration, death, and even imprisonment are among the reasons why some city residents on the national register have not collected identification cards from the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), a check by this newspaper has found.

The police in Region 4 (a) (Agricola-Cummings Lodge) are investigating the murder of a vagrant, whose lifeless body was discovered yesterday morning at the corner of Regent and Light streets, Bourda The dead man has been identified by the police as `Andrew’ or `Spongebob’, 35, of  the Timehri Docks area.

ExxonMobil will be training protected species observers as part of its plans to mitigate the environmental impact on marine life of its operations offshore and it is encouraging organisations to apply although it has already received about 100 applications for training.

An excavator operator is currently a patient at a city hospital after he was shot and robbed yesterday afternoon while on duty at Sussex Street, Albouystown.

Members of the Region Six Regional Democratic Council (RDC) are currently at logger-heads with the Regional Executive Officer (REO) over the selection of appointees for the Regional Tender Board. 

The driver who is allegedly responsible for last Friday’s hit-and-run accident along the Timehri, East Bank Demerara Public Road which claimed the life of security guard, Harrichan Ramsundar has been arrested by the police.

Sandra Russell, a Jamaican national who had been imprisoned last year for possession of cannabis for trafficking, has filed a lawsuit against the state for false imprisonment and the breach of her constitutional rights after she was kept at the East La Penitence Police Station for almost eight months without charge after serving her sentence. 

Two East Canje, Berbice men were last week each sentenced to four years in prison after they pleaded guilty to robbing several persons at a Canefield Settlement beer garden and supermarket back in April.

The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) has expressed concern at the withdrawal of state advertisements by the Department of Public Information (DPI) from Stabroek News and the Guyana Times.