Guyana News

The judiciary today expressed “grave concern” over attacks on it in a Guyana Chronicle report.

Two suspicious insider trading transactions totalling $5.6 billion were reported to the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) during 2018 and represent the highest overall monetary value from among the 331 Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs) submitted.

Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan and Commissioner of Police Leslie James both yesterday declined to say whether any investigation regarding crimes committed on local soil by  recently released Guyanese drug kingpin Roger Khan has started or if there are plans to do so in the near future.

The Opposition PPP/C has asked the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to order the APNU+AFC administration to hold elections no later than 18th September and that the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) be selected within 10 days from tomorrow.

The brother of Cynthia Cozier, who was chopped last week and later succumbed to her injuries, was yesterday charged with murder.

The Ministry of Public Health yesterday commissioned a $539 million drug bond at Kingston which is expected to improve the ministry’s storage capacity threefold, according to Minister Volda Lawrence.

The suspect in the Vlissengen Road accident that claimed the life of a motorcyclist and left the pillion rider hospitalised, was taken before the traffic court yesterday and charged with driving under the influence and driving without a tint permit.

Guyana’s 4.1% growth in GDP last year despite challenges in the traditional sectors is partially attributable to developments in the construction sector and growth in the services sector, as preparations are made for the oil and gas industry.

PPP executive, Gail Teixeira, has written to Director General of the Ministry of the Presidency, Joseph Harmon, requesting clarity over the classifications assigned on Tuesday to the list of persons nominated by the Opposition for the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Chairman.

The Department of Tourism, within the Ministry of Business, yesterday hosted its first ever Regional Tourism Review Session, where representatives of groups within the respective regions were able to present and speak on what can be done to boost tourist in their areas.

Head of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) Sydney James has been sent on administrative leave, Police Commissioner Leslie James confirmed yesterday and sources say that his contract, which expires soon, is unlikely to be renewed.

Sharmila Inderjali, the mother of Guyanese murder accused, Marcus Brian Bisram, was on Tuesday acquitted of a witness tampering charge, after the magistrate upheld a no-case submission.

Minister of State, Dawn Hastings-Williams along with Director General of the Ministry of the Presidency, Joseph Harmon and Director General of the Civil Defence Commission (CDC), Lieutenant Colonel Kester Craig yesterday turned the sod for the construction of a $96M Regional Disaster Management Centre in Lethem.

Twenty Venezuelan families will soon benefit from government assistance for the provision of essential services, following the launch of the Social Protection Ministry’s Shock Responsive Social Protection System.

The Mayor and City Councillors have raised concerns about continued vending at the derelict Stabroek wharf.

As part of its ongoing efforts to improve the standard of mathematics at the secondary level, the Ministry of Education (MoE) is continuing the implementation of the Guyana Secondary Education Improvement Project (GSEIP).

A month’s adjournment was last Wednesday granted by a city court in the matters against former PPP/C Minister of Housing Mohamed Irfaan Ali, who is facing 19 fraud charges over the sale of land in the ‘Pradoville 2’ Housing Scheme.

A city magistrate yesterday granted $100,000 bail to a prison warden who was allegedly found with over 100 grammes of cannabis during a security search at the Camp Street Prison.

A man was sentenced to jail yesterday after he pleaded guilty to threatening his father over money.

An unidentified decomposed body was found yesterday morning in a trench located in Crabwood Creek, Upper Corentyne.