Guyana News

Even as some parents turn to online shopping to avoid the mad rush of in-person back-to-school shopping, Regent Street and its environs in Georgetown were still teeming with multitudes shopping for last minute deals ahead of the start of the new school year tomorrow.

An improved water filtration system is expected to be funded by a $3.5 billion loan from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), according to Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) Managing Director Dr Richard Van West-Charles.

The Lamaha Gardens Management Committee has cited increased crime, use of roads in the community as “racetracks” and zoning violations as major ongoing problems it wants addressed.

Twenty-nine girls who participated in the Ministry of Public Telecommunication’s ‘Guyanese Girls Code’ camp were yesterday awarded certificates for their successful completion of the five-week training programme during a mini-exhibition of the projects that they developed.

Gun-toting bandits yesterday afternoon invaded Rambarran’s Enterprise in Campbellville, Georgetown, where they held employees of the poultry business at gunpoint before carting off an undisclosed amount of cash.

A robber was shot by the police yesterday morning after he and an accomplice attempted to rob a man at Windsor Estate, Providence, East Bank Demerara.

By: Dr. Jan Yves Remy and Alicia Nicholls This year, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) delivered two substantive rulings in a dispute aptly dubbed by the media as the ‘cement saga’, a reference to a long-running spat involving regional competitors in the cement business: Rock Hard Distribution Limited, and its subsidiary Rock Hard Cement Ltd (RHCL), on the one hand; and Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) and its subsidiary Arawak Cement Company Ltd (ACCL) on the other.

Hurricane Dorian spun west today, putting Georgia and the Carolinas in the path of a possible landfall as well as Florida, where some beaches were all but deserted on the holiday weekend as visitors braced for the dangerous category 4 storm.

Caribbean Airlines today announced that flights to The Bahamas and Florida have been cancelled as a result of the approach of Hurricane Dorian.

Mercury imported into Guyana for use in small and medium-scale gold mining will be capped at 1,000 flasks or 34,500 kilogrammes per year, with importers allowed to import a maximum of 150 flasks of mercury at any one time.

It is the belief of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) that the now-cancelled house-to-house registration exercise along with an extended claims and objections process will produce a credible voters’ list, the party’s General Secretary Amna Ally said yesterday.

Following repeated dismissals in the magistrates’ courts of criminal charges instituted by the police against agents of sports-betting giant Superbet, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has instructed the lawmen not to file any new charges until they have received advice from her.

A former Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) clerk has been charged with obtaining a bribe from the owner of the Rio Nightclub in exchange for not seizing illegal alcoholic beverages found on the premises.

Guyana was awarded the Destination Stewardship Award by the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) during the Carib-bean Sustainable Tourism Awards on Thursday in St.

After almost 21 years, police have made an arrest in the murder of Viola Thomas, who was allegedly stabbed to death in 1998 by her husband, who was recently held in connection with stabbing another woman.

Citing the active court case related to the issue, Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson has declined an invitation from the Berbice Bridge Company Incorporated (BBCI) to discuss “a fair and reasonable offer…for the purchase of the ownership of the Bridge.”

Sherlock James, the gold miner who is accused of fatally stabbing his wife, Vinnette Headley-James, during an argument at their Nabaclis, East Coast Demerara home more than a week ago, was yesterday charged with murder and remanded to prison.

Seven months after allegedly fleeing the scene of the fatal Nismes accident which claimed the life of a senior citizen, the man accused of being responsible was yesterday charged with causing death by dangerous driving.

Two men were yesterday committed to stand trial for the murder of America Street moneychanger Shawn Nurse, who was fatally shot during a robbery last year.

Three former members of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB), who were accused of omitting entries totaling $52 million from the general ledger of one of its bank accounts, yesterday heard that the charge was dismissed.