Guyana News

A two-year-old has died after being stung by a scorpion at Mabaruma and his family believes that his life could have been saved if the local hospital was equipped to treat him.

Still seeking to secure the over US$2 million owed to it by government for road construction works, Trinidad engineering and construction company Dipcon has filed an application to strike out an appeal by the state against the 2018 order that compelled it to pay.

Oil services company Nalco Champion has ceased all chemical warehousing plans at its Ruimveldt site following a visit by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to the location.

The Government of Guyana should pursue reducing income and corporate taxes as opposed to giving handouts from expected oil revenues, according to Investment Fund Manager David Pollard.

Customs officers along with police ranks attached to ‘B’ Division and ‘C’ Division seized several vehicles, boxes of chicken, liquor and other items at a location in Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara.

A young man, who claimed that threats by the mother of his children to take him to court for child support led to him stealing a gold band, was yesterday jailed for two years for the crime.

Anthony Lynch, a Jamaican national currently serving a one-year-sentence for sharing an obscene video, was yesterday sentenced to nine months in prison after admitting to escaping custody.

A month after denying breaking and entering a shop and stealing over $100,000 in articles, a driver yesterday confessed to the crime and was sentenced to four months in prison.

A city magistrate yesterday found a cashier/receptionist and a security guard, who had been employed at the Woodlands Hospital, guilty of stealing a little over $1 million from the institution.

Rickland Bovell, the cabbage farmer accused of fatally stabbing 18-year-old David Toney at the Timehri Docks in April, yesterday heard that a prima facie case was made out against him.

A year after being charged with stealing millions from the L.

Essequibo Coast commuters who use the public transportation system can expect to see a more structured fare system for buses and taxis soon, the Ministry of Business said yesterday.

The Guyana Police Force today announced the appointment of Althea Padmore as the acting Head of the Special Organized Crime Unit (SOCU).

A New and United Guyana (ANUG) today denounced a decision by GECOM to proceed with house to house registration saying it was contemptuous of the edict of the Caribbean Court of Justice that elections be held within three months.

Chartered Accountant and attorney Christopher Ram says he is boycotting GECOM’s planned house-to-house registration because it is unconstitutional and he is calling on fellow Guyanese of similar conviction to do likewise.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has been warned against plans to begin a national house-to-house registration exercise, which its in-house lawyer says could be seen as contravening the judgment of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on the no-confidence motion against government.

Special Assistant at the State Assets Recovery Agency (SARA), Eric Phillips on Wednesday tendered his resignation after being officially informed that his private activities amounted to a “serious conflict of interest”, which, if ignored could have adverse effects on the organisation’s work.

Sean Singh was yesterday handed a 30-year prison sentence for the 2012 killing of his common-law wife, Indrawattie Sugrim, whom he knifed to death. 

A Guyanese man was allegedly fatally stabbed by his cousin at their worksite in Lake Street, Ithaca, New York yesterday morning.

The Police Records Management Information System (PRMIS), which is expected to move the Guyana Police Force away from paper-based crime recording, was yesterday officially launched at the Guyana Police Force Training Centre, in Georgetown.