Guyana News

Deputy Superintendent of Police Patrick Todd was yesterday freed of a charge of causing the death of 64-year-old cyclist Conrad Alleyne just over a year ago.

The Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) is calling on the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan to protect those persons conducting their lawful business and focus their  attention on “addressing real crime.”

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Guianas yesterday handed over a five-year management plan for the artisanal fisheries sector to Minister of Agriculture, Noel Holder.

The Local Government Commission (LGC) has written to the Mayor and City Council requesting a register of the council’s assets, Sherry Jerrick, Town Clerk acting told the council on Monday.

A West Coast Berbice rice farmer died on Monday evening after three men invaded his yard and one shot him in the region of his heart.

A horrific accident early this morning on the Friendship, East Bank Demerara Public Road has left five persons, including a member of the Guyana Police Force, dead.

In the wake of a death of a geologist at its operations, Australian miner Troy Resources today announced a suspension of mining at its Region Seven operations putting hundreds temporarily out of work but also raising long-term concerns about the restart of its operations.

A gold miner was fatally shot yesterday morning during a gun battle that erupted outside of El Dorado Trading in Newtown, Kitty, after an attempted robbery in which three others, including one of the robbers, were also wounded.

Relatives have identified the man who was choked to death during a suspected robbery on Church Street, Queenstown, Georgetown, on Saturday night.

The death of a four-year-old child in Linden is being treated as a murder after an autopsy showed that he died of head trauma and had been raped.

The Public Utilities Commission (PUC) yesterday ordered the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) to revert to its old system of dispatching detailed paper bills to all of its customers.

Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Oil Company Limited (GUYOIL) Renatha Exeter yesterday defended the decision to terminate three contracts with a Trinidadian company.

Councillors of the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) yesterday passed a motion for City Engineer Colvern Venture to resume his duties as City Engineer, pending a recommendation from the Local Government Commission (LGC) on whether he should be sanctioned for failing to hand over duties to his deputy before he proceeded on leave.

President of Beacon Foundation Patrick de Groot has said that the organisation’s inability to access oral morphine through the Ministry of Public Health has resulted in many of its cancer patients suffering in pain.

Following a walk on Sunday that 17-year-old Hadiyyah Mohamed and the Precious Angels Charity (PAC) organised to raise awareness of Rett Syndrome, the Pan-American Health  Organisation/World Health Organisation (PAHO/ WHO) promised to partner with her.

Chief Justice Roxane George will render her decision tomorrow on whether the Cabinet of the A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) government stands resigned, or is required to resign ahead of impending elections on March 2, 2019.

Effectively mobilised, civil society’s energies can have a positive impact on national elections, according to the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA).

A labourer, who police say was one of two men who wounded a man during a confrontation at Leopold Street, was remanded to prison yesterday.

A man charged with breaking the windows of his partner’s vehicle was ordered to perform community service after his partner asked the court to be lenient with him.

A gold dealer was shot dead this morning while two others were injured after armed bandits attempted to carry out a daring daylight robbery outside El Dorado Trading, Newtown, Kitty.