Guyana News

As part of the reformation process for a more modernised and efficient Guyana Police Force, 40 ranks from within ‘D’ Division on March 27, 2019 were trained to use Portable Video Recording kits (Body Cameras), a statement from the Force said today.

President David Granger today said that the resignation of four MPs who are dual citizens won’t take effect until all of the requisite constitutional steps are followed.

After announcing that President David Granger had accepted the resignations of four APNU+AFC coalition parliamentarians with dual citizenship yesterday, the government said their ministerial portfolios would be taken up by the members of Cabinet who previously acted in their stead, while signalling that they would have new roles in the administration.

Gavin Gill, the Corentyne taxi driver who used a car to hit his wife down and then proceeded to stab and chop her to death on Saturday morning, yesterday requested to see the woman’s face “one last time” when he appeared at the Albion Magistrate’s Court to face a murder charge.

Faced with a second retrial after a successful appeal of a prior murder conviction, Tyrone Rowe, called ‘Cobra,’ yesterday opted to throw himself at the mercy of the court and copped to a manslaughter charge for the 2010 killing of Troy Collymore.

Two men were yesterday remanded to prison after they were charged with the murder of Sumintra Dinool, the elderly Albouystown businesswoman who was found dead in her home in 2014.

Bartica’s oldest resident, 100-year-old Lucille Vanderhyden Moseley, is now dead after a fire of unknown origin gutted her home around midnight on Monday.

Two persons have been arrested in connection with Monday’s armed robbery of businessman Selson Prescott, who was shot and robbed of millions of dollars as he was on his way to a city bank on Regent Street, Georgetown.

The Government of Guyana on Friday received a US$20 million loan from the World Bank to support capacity building for Petroleum Resources Governance and Manage-ment.

Marc Angoy, who in 2015 had opened fire on his ex-lover Shelly Norton’s Eastville Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara home, killing the woman’s one-year-old granddaughter as a result, was yesterday sentenced to 14 years behind bars.

Attorney Anil Nandlall has written to Chief Election Officer (CEO), Keith Lowenfield, demanding that GECOM refrain from proceeding with the “unlawful and unconstitutional” house-to-house registration exercise.

Daniesha Harris, a housewife who police allege threw a bag of cannabis out a window after panicking when ranks showed up at her house, was yesterday charged with trafficking can-nabis.

Sherod Duncan has been removed from his position as General Manager of the Guyana Chronicle.

CARICOM’s Competition Commission (CCC) has “reached out” to the local Competition and Consumer Affairs Commission (CCAC) following an assessment of the impact the proposed sale of Scotiabank assets in nine Caribbean territories is likely to have on the regional banking sector.

A 19-year-old labourer died on Monday evening after he was shocked while reportedly connecting electricity illegally to his Airy Hall, Mahaicony house.

Police believe that the perpetrators responsible for the death of a West Coast Berbice pensioner may have been known to the woman.

As part of several planned initiatives for Region Nine, close to four thousand residents of the Rupununi, (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo) will soon benefit from improved road connectivity.

As the Ministry of Public Health seeks to diagnose the illness that led to the death of a Guyana Manganese Incorporated (GMI) worker and the hospitalisation of 13 others, samples taken from them have been sent to the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) for additional tests.

An afternoon fire yesterday reduced the Region Seven Regional Democratic Council (RDC) stores building to ashes and the losses are said to number in the tens of millions.

Two persons were on Monday afternoon detained  by the police after a high speed chase along the Industry railway embankment ended in the discovery of an unlicensed firearm and several rounds.