Guyana News

More than a year after he escaped from police custody, remanded inmate Leon Price, was on Mon-day spotted in the Onderneeming Sandpit area, but managed to escape following an exchange of gunfire with the police.

Noting that he is the APNU+AFC campaign director, President David Granger who is undergoing treatment for cancer yesterday signalled his intention to be on the campaign trail in the next general elections.

 As the May/June rainy season continues, increasing the rate of flooding in some areas, City Chief Engineer Colvern Venture, has assured that all of the city’s pumps are functioning, and that the drainage rate in most areas is good.

A pensioner was left counting millions of dollars in losses yesterday morning, after a fire of unknown origin destroyed her Haslington North, East Coast Demerara home.

Guyana Carnival 2019 has kicked off to a positive start, with large turnouts to the various events leading up to the costume parade, which is to be held on Sunday.

The University of Guyana Senior Staff Association (UGSSA) and the University of Guyana Workers Union (UGWU), are awaiting the conclusion of today’s UG Council meeting to decide their next step, as it relates to issues that have been brewing between themselves and the university’s Council.

Two men who were accused of breaking and entering a shop and stealing articles valued more than $100,000, were yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with the offence.

A young Non Pareil mother was granted bail yesterday, after she was brought before a city court to be charged with fraudulent conversion of a gold chain.

The Guyana Tourism Authority is conducting a resident survey on tourism.

Director of the Department of Energy (DoE), Dr. Mark Bynoe, has rejected the claim published in the May 17th edition of the Kaieteur News that Oil Consultant Dr Michael Warner, who was hired to complete Guyana’s draft Local Content Policy, is employed by ExxonMobil.

The Regional Democratic Council (RDC) of Region Four and UNICEF Guyana have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Venezuelan migrants that would see them advancing their work in Regions One and Four.

Out of 602 persons interviewed by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in Regions Two and Seven over a two-month period, 95% of them were Venezuelans, while 5% were returning Guyanese, most of whom were seeking education and training opportunities.

The Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), addressing “misguided remarks” regarding the Task Force assigned to reorganise and restructure the Forestry Commission, has issued a statement reiterating Cabinet’s direction of the process.

Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence was on Monday elected as a member of the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO) when the body held its 72nd session of the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland.

President David Granger yesterday accepted Letters of Credence from Marichu Mauro, accrediting her as the new non-resident Ambassador of the Republic of the Philippines to Guyana.

Collin Hooper, the man who was gunned down in East La Penitence on Monday night, was a suspect in the murder of moneychanger, Prince Phillip Alleyne, who was shot and killed during a robbery outside Ashmins Trading’s building more than a month ago.

The Integrity Commission is looking for suitably qualified and experienced persons to be employed as investigators.

A joint murder charge was yesterday instituted against the two men charged in connection with the murder of taxi driver Marlon Rodney.

A recent controversial opinion from the legal officer of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is “water under the bridge” according to Government-nominated Commissioner Vincent Alexander.

Allowing an appeal of the conviction and sentence for the December 2011 murder of his wife, the Court of Appeal yesterday set aside that conviction against Michael Anthony Persaud, ordering that a new trial be conducted.