Guyana News

A labourer who fell from a building at the Pegasus Hotel expansion project work site remains in the hospital and underwent surgery yesterday.

A 22-year-old Cane Grove man is now a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) following a beating at a wedding house on Sunday night that has left him with a fractured skull and other injuries.

Jerome Liddell, a policeman who had been charged earlier in the year with the unlawful possession of a pistol, was freed on Monday after a city magistrate dismissed the charge.

Two police detectives testified on Monday when the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder charge against Osafa Grundell and James Fraser, who are accused of killing taxi driver Marlon Rodney, continued.

Bids were yesterday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the construction of Living Quarters at the Ministry of Agriculture’s East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) estimated at $25.2M.

Commuters using the Demerara Harbour Bridge were caught in a traffic jam after a number of utility poles being transported across the bridge by truck came loose and slid off.

The trial of two men accused of murdering a security guard during a 2013 multi-million dollar heist in Lethem continued yesterday at the High Court in Georgetown.

Minister of State, Dawn Hastings-Williams on Sunday said although the Government has invested significantly in relief measures for domestic violence victims, a coordinated approach is needed to effectively address the problem.

An autopsy has given the cause of death of Bushy Park, East Coast Demerara (ECD) farmer David Micah as multiple chop wounds.

Approximately 700 acres of the shuttered Wales Sugar Estate has been leased to the newly formed Amazonia Expert Services Limited (AESL) which has expressed the intention to enter the coconut industry.

In the wake of a number of accidents, Traffic Chief Linden Isles has warned drivers of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) over speeding and the abuse of vehicles assigned to them.

Renard Caesar and LaShawn Lewis were yesterday jointly charged with attempting to murder ex-policeman Teon Allen and both were further remanded to prison.

CGX Energy Incorporated through its subsidiary Grand Canal Industrial Estates Inc.

The claims aspect of the claims and objections process for the upcoming general and regional elections, which are slated for March 2nd, 2020, concluded last evening. 

Six bandits, armed with high-powered weapons, were forced to abort a home invasion at midnight last Saturday after a Corentyne moneychanger opened fire on them.

Police Commissioner Leslie James says that an investigation has been launched into the suicide by a rape accused while he was in police custody at the Whim Police Station lockups.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) yesterday  noted with “deep concern” the decision of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to have some 28,000 persons be removed from the voters’ list as they have not uplifted their National Identification Cards.

Minister within the Ministry of Public Infrastructure, Jaipaul Sharma on Friday morning met with residents of Houston and Agricola, East Bank Demerara who were assured that a road and major bridge will be examined by engineers shortly with a view  to having them fixed.

A woman was granted bail yesterday after she denied exposing a video of herself and another on a pornography website and WhatsApp.

Torrential rain flooded sections of the city yesterday but the water quickly receded from affected areas in central and north Georgetown after irrigation pumps operated by the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) were put into operation.