Guyana News

A policeman was one of two men charged in a city court yesterday with possession of over 50 pounds of cannabis for trafficking.

A serving member of the Guyana Police Force was yesterday brought before a city court on a charge of attempting to obtain money from a woman by pretending he was in a position to get her a house lot.

A man was remanded to prison yesterday after a city court heard that he not only broke and entered a woman’s home and stole articles worth over $1 million but that he was also suspected of several similar crimes and was being investigated for murder.

After almost four hours of deliberation, a 12-member jury was last night unable to come to a verdict in the trial of Abishai Caesar, the barber who was charged with killing a woman and her two children at Anna Catherina in 2012.

The body of an unidentified man was discovered yesterday morning on the foreshore of the Abary River and police in Region Five have launched an investigation.

Tifaine Rutherford, a former reporter at the Stabroek News, yesterday traded her pen, recorder, and notepads for a robe and sombre-coloured suits with her admission to the Guyana Bar as one of its newest attorneys-at-law. 

Venezuelan migrants and the revision of the Amerindian Act were among the major issues raised when several government ministers engaged toshaos and participants of the 13th National Toshaos Council (NTC) conference on Thursday.

When Savitri Basdeo was contacted and told she had won the grand prize in the Sunshine Snacks’ Caribbean Premier League (CPL) promotion, an all-expense paid trip for two to Trinidad for today’s finals, she thought she was being pranked.

The Regional Democratic Council (RDC) Chairperson of Region Four Genevieve Allen yesterday encouraged students from a number of secondary schools from the East Coast of Demerara to build self-confidence and self-esteem in themselves during a programme which was held in observance of International Day of the Girl Child.

The Police today said that they are investigating the murder of Marva Oudkerk, 67, a pensioner of Lot 241 Bourda Street, Georgetown which occurred at the said address between 4.30 pm  on October 9 and 6.30 pm on October 10, 2019.

In the wake of a fatal accident at its Karouni mine in Region Seven, Australian mining company Troy Resources Limited today applied for a halt of trading of its securities in its home country pending an announcement on its operations here.

The bullet-riddled bodies of two fishermen were yesterday morning found on Shell Beach, Region One.

Almost nine months after being selected as the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) presidential candidate for next year’s general elections, Irfaan Ali is yet to detail how one of the key planks of his campaign so far – the creation of 50,000 jobs – would be achieved.

Leaders of hinterland communities are frustrated with the “substandard” works and repairs that are being done by contractors on transport infrastructure and they also heard that pensioners  will be able to travel for free on state vessels from November 1st.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday accused Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield of trying to prevent international assistance from reaching the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).

Photos by Terrence Thompson Boulders to seal a decrepit section of the Mahaicony sea defence have begun to arrive by sea but raging waves are preventing the offloading of pontoons and transport by road may have to be considered as the authorities brace for more towering spring tides from October 26.

Police yesterday charged Clive Wilson with murdering his wife Shemain Frank as she slept at her home in Victoria in August.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has declared that the second crop for 2019 has recorded a 23 per cent shortfall and not 35 per cent as claimed by the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) and the National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE).

An accident which occurred yesterday along the Perth Public Road, Essequibo Coast,  resulted in a number of school students being injured.

Legal Advisor at the Office of the Prime Minister Tamara Khan on Wednesday urged participants at the National Toshaos Council (NTC) conference to “read and understand” the Constitution so they can better prepare for planned constitution reform consultations.