Guyana News

A labourer from Port Kaituma, accused of biting his wife on the forehead during a quarrel, was released on self-bail and the couple was ordered by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan to seek counselling when the man appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Friday.

A Bartica man accused of stealing a metal grill door told a city court on Friday that he did not know he was stealing.

United States Ambassador to Guyana Sarah-Ann Lynch has warned that the tenor of some of the ongoing advocacy for the local content policy for the oil and gas sector may make foreign investors feel unwelcome.

A 71-year-old pedestrian died on Friday evening after he was fatally struck by a car along the Garden of Eden, East Bank Demerara Public Road.

Bandits on Friday afternoon shot a miner and robbed him of $2 million in cash, shortly after he made a withdrawal from a bank on the East Bank of Demerara.

A Guyana-born Toronto imam is among a number of Canadian Muslims who have been denied entry from Canada into the United States in what some immigration lawyers say is a growing trend.

The perennial poor state of the transport infrastructure in the South Rupununi makes travel risky in the sprawling savannah region and with disintegrating bridges and crumbling roads continuing to plague the area, residents are wondering if the authorities would ever heed their cries for improvement.

Guyana Golden Lives Organisa-tion (GGLO) in collaboration with the Wellness Centre has launched a Grief Support Project to bring comfort to bereaved children and adults.

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.