Guyana News

A quick response from the Regional Administration of Essequibo Islands-West Demerara averted what could have been a major flood in Zeelugt on the East Bank of Essequibo yesterday after a koker door was damaged, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

A burglar who invaded a Vryman’s Erven, New Amsterdam resident’s home yesterday, was chopped multiple times about his body by the homeowner.

Following reports of police officers soliciting bribes from farmers along the De Hoop branch road, the Guyana Police Force’s Office of Professional Responsibility has launched a probe, Commander of ‘C’ Division Calvin Brutus has said.

Bandits on Monday night carried out a brazen robbery on gold miner Patrick Harding as he was travelling on Haley Street, Georgetown.

The Queen’s College field, which was previously in dire need of rehabilitation, is nearing completion, according to Chairman of the school’s Board, Alfred Granger.

A 23-year-old man was on Tuesday ordered to perform two weeks of community service after he admitted to having one gramme of cannabis in his possession.

CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has expressed the community’s interest in the renewal of legislation for the extension of the Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) waiver beyond December 2019 to allow continued duty-free access to the US market.

Canada today joined the United States and the European Union in criticising the controversial sympathy motion in Parliament last Friday for the late convicted terrorist plotter Abdul Kadir.

The Official List of Electors expired yesterday, hours after another Statutory Meeting of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) came to a premature end.

A suspected bandit was fatally shot during the wee hours of yesterday morning by a security guard at a Queenstown, Georgetown hostel after robbing an arriving guest.

Three months after School of the Nations Director Dr Brian O’Toole was shot in an attack at his home, the identity of the shooter remains unknown while new evidence, described as a “sickening” audio recording, was handed over to the police on Monday.

A 48-year-old carpenter succumbed at a city hospital on Saturday morning, hours after he was allegedly struck down by a so far unknown driver while running across Sheriff Street and his family is seeking justice.

The former Minister of State Joseph Harmon has been appointed Director-General of the Ministry of the Presidency according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

Amidst projections that Region Six will likely suffer a $1.4 billion loss this harvest due to a paddy bug infestation, the Central Corentyne Chamber of Commerce (CCCC) has cast blame on the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) for the state of affairs.

Two months after being charged with using their home as a brothel, a husband and wife yesterday had new charges of trafficking two Venezuelan women read to them.

Though scheduled for yesterday morning, the hearing of the appeal of the High Court’s ruling preventing APNU+AFC ministers Winston Felix and Keith Scott from holding seats in the National Assembly as non-elected Members of Parliament (MPs) had to be deferred after one of the three appellate judges who should have been hearing the case recused herself.

Head of the National Secretariat of the Guyana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GY-EITI), Rudy Jadoopat, says that he hopes the recently published EITI report for 2017 will be used to facilitate public debates and discussions about the state of the industry.

Opposition Parliament-arian Anil Nandlall has applied to the High Court to have Dr.

Tenders were opened yesterday at the National Procurement & Tender Administration Board for the reconstruction of the Camp Street prisons and for the rehabilitation of the Bourda, La Penitence, East Ruimveldt and Kitty Markets.

A Chinese national was yesterday granted bail after he was charged with attempting to murder a customer, who has now become a wheelchair user as a result of injuries he allegedly sustained at his hands.