Guyana News

Talks between governing coalition partners APNU and the AFC  for a 2020 elections pact have stalled over the former’s apparent unwillingness to accept the latter’s nominee for the post of prime minister, posing the most serious threat  yet to the Cummingsburg Accord which led to the removal of the PPP/C in the 2015 polls.

With more spring tides forecast from today, the Sea and River Defence Department of the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MoPI) is assuring that it will seek to cushion the impact of expected flooding in coastal communities, including those still vulnerable due to exposed sections of the Mahaicony sea defence.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo is calling on the Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), retired Justice Claudette Singh, to address the public and clear any and all misunderstanding on decisions made by the commission.

A witness on Wednesday identified murder accused Rajen Dindial as the person who used a paddle to repeatedly hit the now deceased Alston Henry multiple times until he was no longer moving.

A Guyanese man is now sitting in a New York jail after he was busted at the John F Kennedy International Airport earlier this week on suspicion that he ingested cocaine.

A Toopoo Village, Coren-tyne man lost his life on Wednesday after he fell into the Toopoo Pump Station canal.

A youth was remanded to prison on Wednesday after he was accused of using a knife to rob a woman of her money and cellphone before giving her $200 to get home.

A man who told a court that he was going to exchange the marijuana found on him for a cellphone was remanded to prison on Wednesday.

A fire during the wee hours of yesterday gutted the top flat of a North-East La Penitence, Georgetown home which was occupied by two sisters who are visiting from the US.

Special Prosecutor Lawrence Harris’ absence at the most recent hearings for the now dismissed Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) proceedings against former Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) officers may have been due to him not being paid for several months, a source has said.

Talks between A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance for Change (AFC) have stalled following the former’s apparent unwillingness to accept Khemraj Ramjattan as the coalition’s 2020 Prime Ministerial (PM) candidate.

People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) presidential candidate Irfaan Ali says he is not fazed by the formation of new parties  and their possible impact on his chances at the upcoming general elections.

A 35-year-old businessman was beaten to death on Tuesday night during a misunderstanding at Unity, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara (ECD) and his cousin has since been arrested by the police.

The 45-year-old man who admitted to chopping his wife to death in a 2016 attack at the Bygeval Secondary School was yesterday sentenced to 22 years in prison for manslaughter  and eight years for wounding his wife’s cousin, Brenda Thomas.

A West Coast Berbice man was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with the murder of rice farmer, Godfrey Adolphus Pluck Reynolds.

The Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) on Thursday secured a High Court order for the civil forfeiture of foreign and local currency which amounted to over $16 million.

The man whose partly decomposed body was found in a trench at Patentia, West Bank Demerara on Monday morning with a plastic bag over his head has been positively identified and the police have since arrested his neighbour who confessed to the crime.

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Rashleigh Jackson was rescued from his burning Republic Park, East Bank Demerara home around mid-day yesterday after a fire of unknown origin gutted a section of the building.

While questions remain about PPP/C presidential candidate Irfaan Ali’s first set of academic credentials, he is listed as a graduand for a Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of the West Indies (UWI) and was to have graduated yesterday at the St Augustine Campus in Trinidad.

A Venezuelan businessman who was allegedly trying to sell ammunition to the residents of Arau, Region Seven, was yesterday remanded to prison after he failed to give the court a fixed place of abode.