Guyana News

A policeman who was accused of stealing a cellphone, along with a SIM card, from another cop during a football training session, was yesterday granted his release after he denied the allegation.

Regional Chairman of Region 10, Renis Morian, has jumped to the defence of the recently dismissed supervisor of the Kwakwani Hostel, calling her removal a great injustice, and offering to take up her case.

With the publication of Guyana’s first extractive industries transparency report, Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman has said that Guyana looks forward to building on the foundation.

Dante Griffith, the third man to be charged in relation to a break and entry at a Regent Street business last month, which resulted in a loss of more than $1 million to the business, was yesterday granted bail by a city court.

Several passengers were injured yesterday morning, after the Route 42 minibus in which they were travelling toppled along the Diamond, East Bank Demerara Public Road.

A 30-year-old Nigerian who was accused of illegally entering the country by sea, was yesterday remanded to prison after he denied the charge.

The Hinterland Employment Youth Service (HEYS) programme will soon be available to Moblissa youths, Minister within the Ministry of the Indigenous Peoples Affairs, Valerie Garrido-Lowe has announced. 

A 31-year-old East Coast Demerara miner was shot on Monday afternoon after he failed to return a quantity of raw gold, which he allegedly owed a Venezuelan national.

Investigations into the murder of Albouystown shop owner Nalinie Persaud last Thursday, have led to the arrest of two additional suspects.

Saying that he has taken note of the reports of the “damning” findings of the police audit of the financial records of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), President David Granger today rebuffed calls for the unit to be dismantled and assured that government will work to ensure public confidence in it is restored.

Due to rain which has flooded the Promenade Gardens, the celebration of Andaiye’s life has been shifted to the Arthur Chung Convention Centre at Liliendaal at 10 am today.

Extradition proceedings are set to commence before a city magistrate against ex-policeman Shaun Darcy Nebblett, who is wanted in the United States for cocaine trafficking.

The government has to pay in excess of $5 million in total which was yesterday awarded by High Court judge Priya Sewnarine-Beharry to five West Coast Berbice farmers who had sued the state over revocation of their farmlands.

Holding strongly to the view that he is the rightful owner of a plot of land over which he was found guilty of murdering his neighbour, Sukhdeo Dharamdat was yesterday sentenced to 65 years behind bars for the crime at the High Court in Georgetown.

A brand new Sexual Offences Court, estimated to cost around $9 million, was commissioned at the High Court in Berbice yesterday morning.

A US-based Guyanese man is accused of burning his three-year-old daughter to death on Sunday, by chaining the doors of a car he then lit afire, in a deranged act to hurt her mother.

After fleeing the scene after Sunday evening’s fatal accident along the Garden of Eden, East Bank Demerara (EBD) Public Road, the driver of the minibus in which the now deceased Charlestown resident Michael Cozier was travelling, has surrendered to the police.

A father of 13 was remanded to prison yesterday after being charged with possession of over 20 pounds of cannabis, which police found in a taxi on Sheriff Street, in Georgetown.

A youth was yesterday sentenced to two years in prison after he admitted to being in possession of a round of ammunition.

The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) yesterday made major adjustments to its work schedule so pensioners no longer have to spend long hours at its Brickdam head office.