Guyana News

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.

A bus driver was on Friday charged with storing provocative pictures of a man and woman and he was granted his release on a total of $120,000 bail after denying any wrongdoing.

A taxi driver of Ruby, East Bank Essequibo was yesterday morning shot in his head during a robbery on Leopold Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown.

A shopkeeper and a labourer were both charged last Friday with possession of ecstasy pills for the purpose of trafficking.

President David Granger on Sunday evening told the residents of Victoria village that they should be proud of their village’s history as their ancestors, despite their struggles, persevered and pioneered economic independence and democratic empowerment.

Donne Dojoy, the Guyanese woman who was fatally stabbed in Queens, New York last Friday was previously assaulted by her estranged husband Dineshwar Budhidat in August and had an order of protection out against him.

Vabita Arjune, 50, was hit by car late last month and died on Thursday.

The price for fuel in Region One continues to drastically affect communities there, Regional Chairman Brentnol Ashley yesterday told Stabroek News.

Two students of the Guyana Industrial Training Centre (GITC) have been awarded grants by the Small Business Bureau to make their ideas for businesses a reality.