Guyana News

A woman, who is a witness in a murder case, was released on bail when she appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday accused of having marijuana in her room for trafficking. 

A beggar, who apologised in court for using threatening behaviour towards a hospital guard, was fined for the offence when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday.

ExxonMobil Guyana recently updated the Region Two public on its operations and third proposed oil production project, Payara.

The police are said to be investigating the alleged disorderly behaviour by one of its ranks towards a motorcyclist in the presence of a minor.

Guyana will soon be the beneficiary of $1 billion (€ 4.5 million) under the “Spotlight initiative”, a joint European Union and United Nations partnership to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls worldwide.

A nineteen-year old labourer of Melanie Damishana, East Coast Demerara (ECD), was charged with the murder of Golden Grove resident David Gentle yesterday morning.

The Guyana Elections Commission has processed more than 2,000 new registrations over the one week that the Claims and Objections process has been ongoing.

With significant revenues expected from imminent oil production, the Bank of Guyana (BoG) has started preparation to insulate the economy from inflation and is receiving help from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Caribbean Technical Assistance Centre (CARTAC).

Guyana’s Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) with ExxonMobil’s subsidiary  is not very different from other frontier oil countries, according to the International Monetary Fund which says that a key focus now should be on how the revenues accrued are spent.

A geologist at Australian-owned mining company Troy Resources died yesterday morning after a cave where he was working collapsed at its Karouni operation in Region Seven and the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) has been instructed to carry out a thorough investigation.

A Guyanese is the valedictorian of the Hugh Wooding Law School’s (HWLS) graduate class of 2019 as Guyanese took that honour and several coveted prizes during the school’s graduation and award ceremony, which was held last Saturday in Trinidad.

Tenders were yesterday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the construction of the Abram Zuil Secondary School.

A resident of Diamond, on the East Bank of Demerara, was yesterday morning robbed of his gold chain by two men who held him at gunpoint.

As a soon to be oil producing nation, Guyana cannot afford bureaucratic delays in doing business, according to Inter-national Monetary Fund (IMF) Mission Chief to Guyana Dr.

A newly constructed Revenue Office and renovated City Constabulary outpost are among the improvements to the Albouystown Market, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI). 

Michael Munroe, Kalesh Loakman, and Javed Shadick, three recent graduates of the Hugh Wooding Law School (HWLS), on Monday became Guyana’s newest attorneys-at-law after being admitted to the local bar.

The Ministry of Natural Resources has condemned as “baseless and mischievous” an online report which claimed that the son of Minister Simona Broomes had been issued mining lands as “repayment” for her remaining in government.

Amir Mohammed, a police handwriting analyst, was yesterday allowed to continue his testimony during the trial of Rosanna Ramnarine, the former Guyana Gold Board (GGB) accountant accused of six counts of fraud.

With a 95% vaccination coverage for yellow fever in Guyana annually, the need for capturing the other 5% has been stressed.

With its focus on promoting healthy living, the Ministry of Agriculture yesterday distributed medicinal plants to 100 patients attending the clinic at the Guyana Cancer Institute.