Guyana News

PPP executive member Gail Teixeira has written to Commissioner of Police Leslie James and the Chairman of the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) Reverend John Smith urging them to defend the rule of law saying that recent alleged statements by government officials are inciting and a threat to public order and safety.

Keegan Boston, the Cummings Electrical Company security guard who was discovered dead in the company’s guard hut at Campbellville on Sunday morning, died as a result of blunt trauma to the head consistent with a fall, an autopsy confirmed.

Acknowledging that the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) “knocked us down on every point conceivable” on the validity of the no-confidence vote against the government, Attorney General Basil Williams SC on Tuesday said the administration would accept the ruling. 

A man was fined $30,000 and ordered to keep the peace, after he admitted yesterday to wounding his common-law wife.

President David Granger yesterday met with Secretary-General of CARICOM, Irwin LaRoque, whom he assured that he is prepared to comply with the ruling of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ)  on the matter of the motion of no-confidence and is committed to ensuring credible elections are held.

The quality and reliability of the water supply in Bartica will be improved, following the construction of a well and remedial works on the water filtration system.

Government, through a collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), will be rolling out two language learning initiatives that will benefit Venezuelan migrants and their host communities.

The villages of Agatash, Itaballi, Batavia and Dogg Point in Cuyuni-Mazaruni, Region Seven, are the beneficiaries of close to $1 million each through the Presidential Grants programme.

The Maternal and Child Survival Programme’s (MCSP) Zika Response, National Dissemination, an initiative aimed at equipping medical personnel with knowledge on the treatment of patients who have contracted Zika, was officially closed out yesterday.

Over a month after a special lance corporal who was allegedly beaten by a colleague succumbed to his injuries, the file in relation to the matter is now in the process of being sent to the Police Complaints Authority.

A month after denying breaking and entering a shop and stealing over $100,000 in articles, one of the two men accused of the crime admitted to the charge and was sentenced to prison, while his co-accused, who maintained his innocence, remains on remand.

An alleged lumber thief was granted $100,000 bail at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday, after he denied stealing a quantity of wood from a lumber yard.

The “Government Comes to You” outreach programme was held in Bartica on Tuesday and a number of persons expressed their satisfaction with the way their issues were handled and the outcomes, the Department of Public Information (DPI) reported.

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (TUC) today issued a statement saying that the government, the opposition and all of society are bound by yesterday’s rulings by the CCJ on the motion of no-confidence and the appointment of the GECOM Chairman.

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) yesterday ruled that the no-confidence motion brought against the David Granger-led APNU+AFC administration was validly passed with the votes of 33 members of the 65-member National Assembly last December, thereby compelling the resignation of Cabinet and the holding of general elections.

Declaring the process used to unilaterally appoint Justice (Ret’d) James Patterson as Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to be “flawed” and unconstitutional, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) yesterday said President David Granger had no authority to introduce new eligibility requirements and should have given reasons for rejecting the 18 candidates submitted to him by Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo.

In light of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) finding that last December’s no-confidence motion against the ruling APNU+AFC government was validly passed, People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday declared that the opposition would not accept a delay in the holding of elections beyond the next two to three months.

Retired Justice James Patterson is not yet sure of how he should respond to a ruling from the Caribbean Court of Justice that his appointment as Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) was unconstitutional.

Sonia King, the woman who was charged with suffocating her eight-year-old son just over three years ago, admitted to the crime yesterday and now awaits sentencing for manslaughter.

After spending months on remand in a Trinidad jail for a crime he did not commit, a Guyanese man, after a case of mistaken identity, was recently released after a High Court Judge found that the police had linked him to the decades-old crime based on his name alone.