Guyana News

A city magistrate yesterday ruled to allow a witness in the trial of Rosanna Ramnarine, the former Guyana Gold Board (GGB) accountant accused of six counts of fraud, to continue his testimony after an objection was raised about him being considered an expert.

Minister of Public Telecommuni-cations Catherine Hughes and Chief Executive Officer of the Machinery Corporation (MA-CORP) Guillermo Escarraga yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding for free online training for persons interested in being certified  for the repair and maintenance of heavy machinery.

Customers of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT), who are located on the East Bank of Demerara,  can expect reduced downtime in all GTT services following the installation of a secondary fibre cable in the New Hope to Timehri areas.

Charged almost three months ago with escaping police custody, Seon Maynard was cleared yesterday after a city court found that the prosecution failed to make a case against him.

The Guyana Police Force is awaiting legal advice on the way forward on the alleged assault committed on Regional Vice Chairperson Nandranie Coonjah  by Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam) Regional Executive Officer (REO) Denis Jaikarran.

A young man, said to be known for committing simple larcenies, was remanded to prison yesterday after being charged with stealing a cellphone.

Indal Sheobalis, the accused in the theft of over $50,000 in valuables from an Essequibo shop, was unable to secure bail yesterday after he could not provide a fixed address to a city court.

President David Granger, this afternoon, received a courtesy call from representatives of the Carter Center at State House and assured them that he will act decisively on receiving advice from the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) as to its readiness to conduct General and Regional Elections.

ExxonMobil today said it made an oil discovery on the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana at the Tripletail-1 well in the Turbot area.

Director, Department of Energy, Dr. Mark Bynoe, today, announced that UK-based Tullow Oil plc’s (Tullow) Joe-1 exploration well has discovered a new Upper Tertiary oil play in the Guyana basin.

Parliament should be considered automatically dissolved given the constitutionally mandated period for general elections, according to former two-term Speaker of the National Assembly Ralph Ramkarran.

A US-based Guyanese man, who was on vacation here, was found dead yesterday morning and police have launched an investigation to determine the cause of his death.

Oil services company Nalco Champion will not be storing chemicals at the John Fernandes Ltd (JFL) Inland Terminal at Industrial Site, Ruimveldt as its client ExxonMobil has moved to access those services overseas.

 The stakes for the Alliance for Change (AFC) will be high as it meets with its coalition partner A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) this week to review the pivotal Cummingsburg Accord that underpinned their victory at the 2015 general elections.

Still coping from the trauma of Hurricane Dorian that ravaged The Bahamas earlier this month, a family of five last evening returned to Guyana after seven years in hopes of starting life afresh.

The Government of Guyana will be donating $41.6M (US$200,000) to The Bahamas to aid in relief following the battering by Hurricane Dorian.

After a spate of robberies in Lamaha Springs, residents yesterday removed and burned an ‘illegal’ bridge between their community and ‘C’ Field, Sophia. 

Citing fears of an influx of foreigners, political party, ANUG has called on government to cease all grants of citizenship to such aliens unless stringent and clear criteria for citizenship are made available for public examination and discussion.

A US appeals court has ordered that Guyanese murder accused Marcus Bisram be extradited to Guyana, after denying both a rehearing of his appeal arguments and a motion to stay the extradition.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica has recorded the most incidents of human rights violation when compared to its Caribbean neighbours.