Guyana News

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) yesterday congratulated  President David Granger on confirming the holding of National and Regional elections on March 2, 2020.

A city magistrate yesterday overruled a no-case submission and ordered the Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) salesman Jermaine Lambert, who was charged with causing the death of a pedestrian, to lead his defence.

A taxi driver was on Tuesday freed after a jury found him not guilty of raping a 13-year-old.

The Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) yesterday launched the Women in Maritime Association Caribbean (WiMAC)-Guyana chapter.

Robbery accused Omalo Williams was yesterday freed of two charges after a city magistrate found that the prosecution failed to make a case against him.

The Public Procurement Commission (PPC)  on Tuesday held a Stakeholder Meeting with public procuring entities at the Pegasus Hotel, Georgetown.

A young mechanic was yesterday fined after he was found guilty of wounding a shop owner in the vicinity of the Merriman Mall in Georgetown.

The Department of the Public Service yesterday handed to the Ministry of Public Telecommunications (MoPT) a report in which it recommended that two former senior managers of the now defunct National Frequency Management Unit (NFMU) be compensated for being wrongfully dismissed 20 years ago.

As part of its continued investment in building its human resource capacity, the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) recently welcomed back two members of its staff who were in the UK pursuing a one-year master’s degree programme at the University of Cranfield.

A fire of unknown origin late yesterday afternoon completely destroyed the upper flat of a 92-year-old pensioner’s house located at Lancaster Village, Corentyne.

Providing adequate shelter to the thousands of Venezuelan migrants who have come to Guyana in recent months is a key concern, according to Minister of Citizenship, Winston Felix.

President David Granger last evening cited March 2nd  2020 as the earliest date for general elections but did not issue a proclamation as is legally required.

Two former employees of the National Frequency Management Unit (NFMU), Keith Griffith and Robert Ross are to be compensated after it was determined that they were unjustly dismissed in 1998.

Former Chairman of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) Hugh Denbow, who died on Monday evening, hours after his bound body was found in his North Sophia home following a home invasion was strangled, an autopsy has found.

The bodies of the two men who went missing after a collision between two boats on the Essequibo River on Monday which claimed the life of Sherry Khan, were found on the shores of Hog Island yesterday.

The lifeless body of a 13-year-old girl was yesterday found hanging in a bedroom of her Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara (WBD) house.

Daniel Forrester, the motorcyclist charged last year with causing the death of a pedestrian in a collision at Bagotstown, East Bank of Demerara, was yesterday found guilty of the crime and a probation report has been ordered before sentencing.

Vendors are pleased with the ongoing repairs to a section of the Bourda Market roof, saying that works on the market are “long overdue.” However, some are afraid of closing their stalls as they are fearful of robbers “carrying away everything.”

Paul Ivor Thom, who was found guilty of manslaughter at the High Court in Berbice earlier this month, was yesterday sentenced to six years imprisonment for the crime.

An office assistant was charged with causing the death of a motorcyclist that also left the pillion rider hospitalised, and was granted bail.