Guyana News

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Chairman, retired Justice James Patterson, has informed the commission’s Legal officer, Excellence Dazzell, that he has no confidence in her.

Heavy rainfall in the Rupununi has delayed the commencement of works on the Lethem to Aishalton road, which was recently damaged by flash flooding, Chairman of the Region Nine Democratic Council Brian Allicock says.

An investigation by the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) of the procurement of consultancy services for the Feasibility Study and Design for the new Demerara River bridge has found that no criminal offence has been committed.

Describing the press statement released by Alliance For Change (AFC) executive Imran Khan on Thursday as a “strategy,” outgoing party General Secretary Marlon Williams late yesterday afternoon said that he was still not in possession of a formal complaint about the alleged threats Khan has said he and his wife have received.

President David Granger has commissioned a Board of Inquiry (BoI) to investigate alleged misconduct by staff of the Department of Public Service.

June Alexander, the 10-year-old girl who was critically injured on Monday following an incident at the Regma Primary School at Mackenzie, Linden, succumbed at a city hospital yesterday afternoon.

The use and sale of synthetic drugs by school-aged children is worrying and disturbing, the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) has said in its 2018 annual report, which related that the majority of those drugs are smuggled through the Suriname border.

The lifeless body of a 17-year-old was on Wednesday evening discovered on the Charity Public Road, Essequibo Coast, and an autopsy has confirmed he was the victim of a hit-and-run accident.

A Corentyne man is now a patient at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital after he was chopped several times by a known drinking buddy of his on Wednesday afternoon.

A city magistrate yesterday committed a security guard to stand trial for the attempted murder of three men at the Meadow Bank Wharf.

A 38-year-old domestic worker who is accused of stealing over $5 million in jewellery from her employer was granted her release on bail yesterday after she denied the charge.

The driver of the vehicle assigned to Mayor of Ubraj Narine, who was involved in the accident in which Buxton resident Mitford Cambridge was killed along the Turkeyen Public Road on Tuesday, has been released on station bail.

After close to two years, the way has been paved for the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) to be reconstituted after the Parliamentary Committee on Appointments on Wednesday finally agreed to a nominee.

Government will be holding its seventh ministerial outreach in Bartica, Region Seven, next Tuesday and Wednesday, according to Director-General of the Ministry of the Presidency Joseph Harmon.

One-time national footballer Jobe Caesar was yesterday sentenced to six months behind bars after being found guilty of wounding a police officer.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has announced that it would no longer be granting tax exemptions and registration of vehicles in the ‘G’ series, such as Toyota Noah, Voxy, Liteace, Grand Hiace, Regius or any other similar type of vehicle.

The state-run Power Producers and Distributors Inc. (PPDI), which operates and maintains four power plants on behalf of the Guyana Power and Light Inc.

Minister within the Ministry of Finance Jaipaul Sharma is likely to have a new portfolio soon according to well-placed sources.

The local company managing power generators which supply electricity to Guyana Power and Light today denied using Chinese-made spare parts.

Ahead of tomorrow’s National Executive Conference (NEC), where top positions in the Alliance For Change (AFC) are expected to be keenly contested, Executive Member Imran Khan yesterday claimed he and his wife have been threatened by a “thug” associated with a senior party official but up to press time there was no indication that a formal complaint had been lodged.