Guyana News

Executives of the Guyana Sugar Corporation are questioning  the sale by NICIL of two of its transmission towers  to  Bobby Vieira’s Multicultural Communications Inc.

Two men, including the operator of Rockies Hotel in Georgetown, were taken before a city court yesterday on a charge of plotting to kill a Lethem businessman.

The Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) is aiming to remove Guyana from being listed among the transshipment points for drugs by 2022, Deputy Head of the CANU Lesley Ramlall said yesterday as the agency commissioned its new headquarters.

A 10-year-old student is currently battling for her life at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) after an incident on Monday at her school – Regma Primary School – in MacKenzie, Linden, left her with serious head injuries.

An Imbaimadai mechanic was yesterday charged with the rape of a woman.

The Local Government Commission (LGC) is set to decide the fate of Corriverton Treasurer Ronita Griffith in the new week following an investigation into allegations of poor accounting practices brought against her by the Town Council.

Francisco Lima De Aguilar, the Brazilian national who allegedly shot a police officer at Aranka Backdam last month, was yesterday remanded to prison after he was read an attempted murder charge at a city court.

The Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA) has imported 1400 Muscovy ducklings from the United States for breeding following recent deaths that are suspected to be as a result of Duck Hepatitis at six farms on the coast.

The Government of Guyana will be expending $160 million to enhance the structural integrity of sea defences in Prospect, Mahaicony.

Former Attorney General Anil Nandlall was on Monday granted a stay of the proceedings before the Magistrate’s Court, where he has been charged with the alleged fraudulent conversion of law reports valued more than $2 million.

Senior Magistrate Leron Daly yesterday told Daniel Forrester, the motorcyclist who was charged last year with causing the death of a pedestrian in a collision at Bagotstown, on the East Bank of Demerara, that he would have to lead his defence in the matter.

Two Corentyne men were on Wednesday freed for the 2016 murder of Caitanya Kishundyal, 21, of Lot 28, First Street, Swamp Section, Rose Hall Town, Corentyne. 

Ron Rodrigues, the 29-year-old miner who was severely beaten and stabbed about his body more than a month ago during a robbery near his Zeelugt, East Bank Essequibo home, has since been discharged from the hospital but is paralysed.

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) met with representatives of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday and expressed concern over the lack of transparency in the divestment of sugar estates and  recapitalisation of others under the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo).

The Department of Labour will be launching an inquiry into the recent deaths of two men while installing security cameras in the compound of the Guyana National Stadium.

Although saying he would support an investigation of oil exploration agreements that were made while the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) was in office, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday maintained that it would have to be conducted by an international firm that is agreed to by all the political parties as well as the private sector.

The Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) is gearing up  for a two-day agro-processors trade show in Antigua on July 19th and 20th    at which 30 local entrepreneurs will participate.

A male Corentyne student was busted with 10 grammes of cannabis by a teacher on Wednesday.

Two days after saying that he would ask the Police Commissioner for an update on the findings of the audit of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan on Wednesday disclosed that he had not received any new information.

Alliance For Change member Imran Khan, who is also the government’s Director of Public Information this afternoon said that he and his wife have been threatened by a “thug” associated with a senior official of the party.