Guyana News

After being sent on administrative leave in late April, Director of Youth Melissa Carmichael has said that to date she has not been given a reason for the decision.

High Court Judge Fidela Corbin-Lincoln is expected to hear further arguments on Thursday before making a determination as to whether she will grant Charles Ceres an injunction he is seeking against Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo, whom he has sued for libel.

A 7-year-old girl was severely burnt about her body early yesterday morning after a fire of unknown origin gutted her Mon Repos North, East Coast Demerara home.

Residents of Jacklow Village in the Lower Pomeroon will have Internet access in and around their community before the end of September 2019, a release from the Ministry of Public Telecommunications said yesterday.

The Ministry of Natural Resources yesterday launched its third Annual Youth Apprenticeship programme at the Herdmanston Lodge.

A youth yesterday admitted to committing two armed robberies and said he did the crimes because he was hungry and had no money.

A fire, suspected to be of electrical origin, destroyed a two-storey house at Line Path, Upper Corentyne, yesterday morning and the homeowner was seriously burnt during his escape.

The driver in the hit-and-run accident which claimed the life of Annandale resident, Leon Fung-a-Fat, is still to be apprehended Delon, a brother of Fung-A-Fat, yesterday told Stabroek News that the family have not heard anything from the police on the progress of the investigation.

A young construction worker has been ordered to undergo counselling after admitting to possession of ganja, which he claims he uses for medicinal purposes.

A Stabroek Market vendor was granted bail on a ganja trafficking charge after pleading not guilty yesterday.

Spring tides over the last few days have washed away a large section of the recently repaired Prospect, Mahaicony sea defence and Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson says that his ministry has already applied for emergency funding to execute rehabilitative works.

Diversification plans for the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) have been delayed as the government seeks approval to reallocate funds from a $30 billion bond as some priorities have changed.

Policy Forum Guyana (PFG), a civil society group, says that the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) is not institutionally fit for the task of environmental protection and this function should be assigned to another agency.

The Pomeroon coconut factory fined $1 million by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last month for dumping husks and shells in the surrounding waterways has closed operations indefinitely and is blaming the EPA for not giving it enough time to get its operations in compliance with rules.

An Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam man is now hospitalised in a serious condition after he was chopped and beaten about the body during a robbery at his home yesterday morning.

Survivors of the horrific vehicular crash, which occurred on Friday morning along the New Hope, East Bank Demerara (EBD) public road and left one person dead, yesterday recalled that the driver of the pick-up was swerving on the road before he collided with the Route 42 (Georgetown-Timehri) minibus.

The Berbice policeman, under investigation after he was accused of stowing ganja on the premises of a Superbet shop located in Reliance Village, East Canje, Berbice, in an extortion bid, has been transferred to the Tactical Services Unit (TSU).

President David Granger has declared the next ten years – 2020-2029 –a decade of development during which oil revenues will be used to fund free education from Nursery to Tertiary levels for all Guyanese.

Three residents of the community of Princeville, Potaro-Siparuni are to be trained as Community Health Workers (CHWs), according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

The body of a Lower Pomeroon River teenager who went missing on Saturday was found floating yesterday afternoon at Tenez Ferme, Lower Pomeroon River.