Guyana News

Child abuse victims are oftentimes left on their own to deal with the severe trauma of their experiences and even families believe they can just `bounce back’ without any long-term impacts.

The regional administration of Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice), last week, handed over $500,000 in items to the Moraikobai Village Council in support of the village’s tourism drive.

The Guyana Elections Commission yesterday received multi-million dollar bids for capital items and accessories.

The Government of Guyana today said that the portfolios of four Ministers who resigned because of their dual citizenship will now be held by sitting members of Cabinet who previously deputised for them.

The CARICOM Competition Commission says that the proposed sale of Scotiabank assets in nine Caribbean territories could see anti-competitive impact in at least three member states and that it shall pursue this matter further with the national authorities in the various countries.

President David Granger has received and accepted the resignation of all coalition Members of Parliament (MPs) who are holders of dual citizenship, the government announced this morning.

-operation halted, more workers transported to city for observation Following a battery of tests, the Ministry of Public Health last night ruled out the Swine Flu strain of the H1N1 virus as being responsible for the death of a Guyana Manganese Inc (GMI) worker and the hospitalisation of others.

A young Linden couple died last night after a collision between a motorcycle and a jeep at Toucan Drive, Amelia’s Ward.

Co-owner of Tower Suites, Shervington ‘Big Head’ Lovell, who is facing a charge of conspiracy to violate US maritime drug enforcement law, may be in plea bargaining negotiations with authorities, according to United States Attorney Geoffrey S.

A 25-year-old businessman was shot yesterday afternoon in an attack by bandits, who robbed him of an undisclosed amount of cash along Regent Street, in Georgetown.

A Timehri motorcyclist is now dead after he collided with a minibus and was then struck down by another along the Soesdyke Public Road, East Bank Demerara (EBD) on Sunday night.

Rice farmers have been making commendable progress in this season’s harvesting, the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) has reported, stating that while only 36 percent of harvesting is complete, a total of 200,008 tonnes of paddy have already been harvested.

A farmer is currently in police custody, being questioned on the death of the West Coast Berbice pensioner who died on Sunday, after being discovered alight in her backyard.

Days after a taxi-driver was charged with the 2009 murder of East Coast Demerara (ECD) fuel dealer Ramzan Alli, the Guyana Police Force yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for the 49-year-old widow of the deceased.

Sterling Products Limited (SPL) registered after-tax profit of $100.3m for last year compared to $144.5m in 2017, a steep decline of 30.5%.

Muslim scholar Nezaam Ali, who was recently found guilty of the 2011 rape of a nine-year-old boy, has appealed his conviction and 45-year sentence, citing among other things bias by a member of the jury and his attorney’s failure to take direction.

Finance Minister Winston Jordan on March 18  signed a bilateral debt settlement agreement with the State of Kuwait, through the Kuwait Investment Authority, to cancel US$50,739,255.67 of Guyana’s debt to that country.

A former Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) supervisor was yesterday charged with defrauding the utility company of over $1.2 million.

Government has not made a final decision on the payment of compensation to the relatives of the Lindo Creek massacre victims, according to Minister of State Joseph Harmon, who has maintained that the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the killings was not a waste of time and money.

Several persons have been arrested and questioned about the robbery of visiting cruise ship director Neil Horrocks, who was attacked early on Saturday morning on Lombard Street, Georgetown.