Guyana News

Isaiah Smith, 21, a construction worker of Lot 69 Sparendaam, East Coast Demerara was arrested on 2024-04-09 and charged on 2024-04-11 with possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.

Clinton Chase, the 70-year-old unemployed resident of Lot 148 Middle Road, La Penitence, Georgetown, who was found dead on April 7th, 2024, at 22:30 hrs on the northern parapet in front of his died from multiple gunshot injuries.

The police yesterday issued a bulletin for Stephon Branford over the murder of Courtney Young in Sophia on March 21st.

Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC has acted upon the instructions of President Irfaan Ali and issued instructions to ministries on the establishment of units to assess where projects are experiencing unjustifiable delays or there is evidence of poor work.

Guyana received unanimous support from the United Nations Security Council when its members met on Tuesday at the request of President Irfaan Ali, to address Venezuela’s approval of the creation of a new state in Essequibo, sending a strong signal to the Nicolas Maduro regime of this country’s backings, sources said.

Declaring 2023 a successful year of growth albeit the challenges, the Demerara Distillers Limited has reported after tax profits of nearly $6 billion; 12%higher than 2022.

Justice Sandil Kissoon will deliver his ruling on the matter of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) vs the Government of Guyana next week.

A pre-charge report has been drawn up for the child involved in the altercation with Golden Grove student Jamal Reid and it is expected that he will face the court shortly, sources have confirmed to this newspaper.

Attorney Ryan Crawford and his brother have been denied their attempt at ownership of some 100 acres of land, which they claimed had been given to their deceased father who was a lawyer, by a client in lieu of payment.

The 29-year-old lorry driver of Lovely Lass village, West Coast Berbice, who injured a senior police officer along with a police constable in an early morning accident on August 2, 2023 along the Friendship Public Road is before the courts.

A 30-year-old man is now hospitalized after he was stabbed three times by a man with whom he had a previous misunderstanding.

The University of Guyana has announced that it has graduated its first ever batch of food scientists and looks forward to their contribution in both local and regional efforts to attain food security.

Newly-appointed magistrates have undergone an eight-day multi-stakeholder Orientation Programme facilitated by the Supreme Court of Judicature, following the taking of the Oath of Office, a Supreme Court release stated on Tuesday.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) is soon expected to acquire a £39 million offshore patrol vessel following the signing of a Letter of Intent between the defence force and the French company OCEA SA yesterday.

The ministries of Education and Health have collaborated with the Mount Sinai Health System to provide 17 nursery school pupils from schools across the coastland with much-needed spectacles as part of the Comprehensive Child and Youth Health Programme, a Ministry of Education release stated last Tuesday.

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has returned the file of Vreed-en-Hoop businessman Dylan Walker, who was held by the police over a gun and ammunition on March 16th , advising that further investigation be done.

A Guyana-based Brazilian man, wanted by the authorities in Brazil, appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday fighting his extradition to that country.

On Tuesday 9th April 2024, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) delivered judgment in Che Jain Ping and Xiao Guang Zhao v Guyana Power and Light Inc.

By Abigail Headley In an effort to decentralize mental healthcare services and to better target suicide and its triggers in Guyana, the Ministry of Health has launched the National Mental Health Action Plan and the National Suicide Prevention Plan for the years 2024-2030.

Fed up with the disregard for contract extensions given and apparent abandonment of the project, the government is preparing to terminate the contract with Trinidad and Tobago-based contractor Kallco Guyana Inc for the Conversation Tree to Dennis Street road project.