Guyana News

An Adelphi Village, East Canje Berbice man was last week remanded to prison after he was charged with the attempted murder of his mother.

The Guyana Securities Council (GSC) is warning the public that four entities which have been conducting business within the securities sector of Guyana are not properly licensed.

Superintendent Gary McAllister, the detective who gave conflicting testimony during the preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the attempted murder charge against Maryann Daby earlier this year, amended his account once again when he took the witness stand last week in her trial on charges of having unlawful possession of a pistol and ammunition.

The Maternity Ward of the Skeldon Hospital has received a $3M (US$14,000) upgrade through a successful public-private partnership between the Public Health Ministry and the Florida-Guyana Hope Incorporated and their local counterparts Guyana-Florida Hope Incorporated.

People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) presidential candidate and former housing minister Irfaan Ali has been granted another adjournment of the start of the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the 19 fraud charges brought against him over the sale of state lands.

Residents and key stakeholders of Region One were told that even though Guyana is not producing oil as yet, it is still a significant player on the world market. 

Despite protests by the prosecutor, an adjournment was granted on Friday in the proceedings against former Attorney General Anil Nandlall for the alleged fraudulent conversion of law reports, pending the ruling of the Court of Appeal on whether or not he should lead his defence.

Three youths, charged with a violent robbery and suspected of being involved in other recent attacks, were remanded to prison last Friday.

A tattoo artist charged with illegal possession of narcotics was remanded to prison after he could not provide a fixed address to a City Court.

As part of its continuing public awareness campaign in the lead up to the national ban on single use plastics in 2021, the Ministry of the Presidency’s Department of Environment has said strict action is needed from all stakeholders to transition to the use of reusable products, including shopping bags and water bottles, while cutting out non-essential items such as plastic straws.

By Bertrand Ramcharan They had traversed the Atlantic half a century earlier, from Guyana to London, in pursuit of higher education.

Popular D’Urban Street restaurant and hangout spot the Guinness Bar was this evening destroyed by fire of suspected electrical origin.

An overworked Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GL&SC) is approving plans that have resulted in key public infrastructure being essentially handed over to private developers including at Houston, East Bank Demerara where a critical drainage canal is being filled in by developers.

Well-known dentist Dr Jennifer Bulkan was early Saturday evening assaulted and robbed by two “brazen” gun-toting bandits, minutes after she had entered her Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown home.

A Kuru Kuru, Linden/Soesdyke Highway miner on Saturday succumbed to his injuries after he was chopped about his body on Friday during an alleged robbery and police are currently seeking two suspects, a Brazilian national and his step-father.

Diwali celebrations for a Peter’s Hall, East Bank Demerara family took a turn for the worse after their house was destroyed by a fire suspected to be electrical in origin.

Guyana is now among the top 25% robotic teams worldwide following its fighting performance in the recently completed ‘First Global Robotic’ competition in Dubai where they gained six victories and three losses which earned them an overall ranking of 39 out of the 190 countries who competed.

The body of Keion Paul, the 17- year old who went missing while swimming in the Puruni area, Region Seven was discovered on Saturday.

Presidential candidate of the Change Guyana political party Robert Badal says that under his government, Guyana will be ‘blackout’ free and voters should judge him on his record as Chairman of the Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL).

Living with an autistic sister and understanding the challenges faced, was what drove Sasha Williams, a quarterfinalist in the Miss Guyana World 2020 competition, to choose autism spectrum disorder (ASD) as her Beauty with a Purpose project.