Guyana News

Brian Mohan was yesterday committed to stand trial for the 2015 murder of Festival City resident Christopher Wharton, who was shot execution-style while sitting on the stairs of his home.

One week after the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) recommended the laying of a charge, police have yet to arraign Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) manager Andrew Kellman, who is accused of sexually assaulting a worker at the facility.

The sod was turned on Monday afternoon for a state-of-the-art $70 million mortuary in the compound of the National Psychiatric Hospital at New Amsterdam.

A water ambulance, which will serve the village of Baracara, in Region Six, was commissioned on Monday.

High Court judge Fidela Corbin-Lincoln has denied engineer Charles Ceres an injunction he was seeking against Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo, whom he has sued for libel.

Guyanese students currently studying at the Hugh Wooding Law School (HWLS), in Trinidad and Tobago, have welcomed the introduction of full scholarships to allow qualifying students to offset some of the almost $5 million in costs they face annually.

The Guyana Society for the Blind’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) programme has recorded an overall pass rate of 95% this year, representing the best performance by students since it was started in 2014.

Seven bids submitted for the construction of an Administrative and Quality Control Laboratory Building for the Demerara Harbour Bridge Corporation’s Asphalt Plant were opened on Tuesday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board, in Kingston, Georgetown.

The trial of Ganga Kishna and Avishkar Bissoon, who are accused of killing a man and his two young daughters after setting their Robb and King streets home on fire back in 2014, will officially commence this morning before Justice Brassington Reynolds at the Georgetown High Court.

Kevin Allicock, the Albouystown youth who police say shot at a City Constable after being caught while trying to break into the Bourda Market, is now a remanded prisoner.

Seon Burch has been remanded to prison after being charged with stealing over one million dollars’ worth of articles.

A woman and her family are now traumatised after they were attacked by a lone gunman at their Diamond/Grove Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara (EBD) home in the wee hours of Monday morning.

The man who allegedly stabbed his ex-girlfriend and her new partner last Wednesday at Hururu Mission, Berbice River, was arrested on Sunday, Commander Linden Lord said.

Guyana is better off with more operators and countries involved in its oil fields, British High Commissioner to Guyana Gregory Quinn has said in wake of UK-based Tullow Oil’s recent offshore oil discovery.

Like many of his peers, Davindra Bridgmohan is today celebrating his success at the recently concluded Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations, where he secured 10 passes.

Nineteen teachers are to commence training this week in order to teach English as a second language to children of Venezuelan migrants in Region One.

Eight young Guyanese working with ExxonMobil and its subcontractors are proud that they have been afforded the opportunity to work towards transforming their country.

The representatives of 15 Guyanese companies will be participating in an oil and gas conference and exhibition in Aberdeen, Scotland, next month.

Today’s expected statutory meeting of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has been rescheduled to tomorrow as members of the commission are still to be provided a copy of the Chief Justice’s recent ruling on house-to-house registration, which is expected to inform a highly anticipated decision on the holding of general elections.

US airline JetBlue is expected to embark on a scouting mission next month for possible operations in Guyana, according to Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson.