Guyana News

A tug and barge hit the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) early yesterday morning, causing extensive damage requiring millions in repairs and disrupting travel between the West and East Demerara.

The police are investigating the murder of a man, who was discovered early yesterday morning with chop wounds about his body and his head almost severed from his neck at Haslington North, East Coast Demerara.

Two years after its establishment, Pomeroon Trading, a coconut growing and processing agribusiness, is preparing to be publicly traded on the Guyana Stock Exchange.

After almost 21 years on the run, Philbert Thomas was yesterday brought before a city court, where he was charged with the murder of his wife, Viola Thomas.

Two days after United States Ambassador to Guyana Sarah-Ann Lynch contended that the push here for local content provisions may make foreign investors feel unwelcome, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) is crafting a response.

The Government Analyst- Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) has launched an investigation into the circulation of substandard/falsified (SF) medication on the local market and the police force’s fraud squad has been called in to assist with the probe.

A resident of Linden who thought he would never be able to use his right hand again following an accident, is grateful to Dr. Li Qing, the anaesthesiologist with the Chinese Medical Team (CMT), for saving it through a new technique.

Following damage to a utility pole and cables as a result of the collision of a bus and a container truck at Helena, Mahaica, several villages along the East Coast corridor were without service from the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) for a number of  hours yesterday.

With the Demerara Harbour Bridge knocked out of commission yesterday morning many commuters travelling to the West Demerara had to do so in the darkness last night and up to press time  all appears to have run smoothly.

The National Mine Workers Union of Guyana (NMWUG) has been given notice that it will be certified as the majority union of rank and file workers of Aurora Gold Mines Inc.

Guyana-born environmentalist Conrad Gorinsky has died. Gorinsky who was born in Parubaru, near the Kuyuwini river, in British Guiana on March 7, 1936 died of pneumonia after being treated for nasal cancer on August 18, 2019 at age 83.

Accused last year of forging chassis numbers for two vehicles stolen in carjackings, a father and son were yesterday freed of the charges.

Human trafficking charges have been reinstituted against Soesdyke businessman Feezal Shaw, months after he was freed following a procedural error.

Two weeks after being freed of an attempted murder charge, Fresh Co Supermarket manager Xinoxi Qu was yesterday back before a city court on a charge of assaulting one of his employees.

Two gunmen last evening grabbed a bag from a salesman’s car which was located in front of a supermarket in New Amsterdam.

As the police investigation into the more than one-week-old murder of 18-year-old Rivaldo Williams continues, Commander of ‘A’ Division Marlon Chapman yesterday said several persons were questioned but the main suspect is yet to be apprehended.

Kumar Shaw, a homeless man who admitted to stealing a battery from a minibus, was fined yesterday for the crime after he failed to convince a city magistrate to allow him to do community service as his punishment.

Fresh off of  enhancing the main visitors’ area of the Kaieteur National Park and providing life skills training in the indigenous village of Chenapou, Region Eight, the First Assembly of God Wortmanville’s youth group Nulli Secundus has been awarded for its service to communities across Guyana.

Commuters on the West Coast and West Bank of Demerara will today and possibly tomorrow have to make their way to Region 4 via boat service as the Demerara Harbour Bridge is under emergency closure after a tug slammed into it around 1 am today. 

Amid ongoing political uncertainty, the National Toshaos Council (NTC) has added its voice to calls for elections to be held even as it reiterated the need for the inclusion of Indigenous Peoples in matters that affect them.