Guyana News

Citizens are being cautioned against fake WhatsApp and Facebook profiles claiming to be that of Volda Lawrence, Minister of Public Health and Chairperson of the People’s National Congress Reform.

Three of the main business bodies in the country yesterday urged a swift end to the political uncertainty over the elections date and two of them, the Private Sector Commission (PSC) included, maintained that business was being hampered.

The Ministry of Natural Resources has dismissed claims that it has been withholding land from small scale miners, countering that it has in fact been working to provide equal land access to miners within this grouping.

With the advent of the oil and gas sector in Guyana, the University of Guyana (UG) is now equipped with a Geotechnical computer lab which will serve hundreds of students, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

CARICOM has hammered the European Union (EU) over a revised tax governance blacklist that includes Caribbean countries, accusing it of infringing upon their sovereign rights The March 12 revised list of countries purportedly not adhering to tax good governance includes five members of CARICOM: Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Dominica and Trinidad & Tobago.

A city magistrate yesterday dismissed charges against a plumber who was charged last year over having a loaded unlicensed pistol, which police say he fired in a public place.

The shooter in the Albouystown, Ghetto Flex Bar shooting from last Thursday has been identified and police are working to apprehend him, Crime Chief Lyndon Alves yesterday related.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) is advising customers of a bill distribution delay and urging them to honour their payments in the meantime, by utilising the services available to access their outstanding balances.

Three persons are currently hospitalised, after they were attacked by a man who went berserk sometime after his birthday celebration concluded.

Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo has applied to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to appeal the Guyana Court of Appeal’s decision by majority to invalidate December’s no-confidence vote against government, while saying that the meaning of a majority of the 65 elected members of the National Assembly was misconstrued by the judges.

In a further sign of the growing international interest in the political crisis over a date for general elections, a team from the Commonwealth Secretariat, which will be in Guyana for four days beginning today, is scheduled to meet with the Guyana Election Commission (GECOM) tomorrow.

Attorney Anil Nandlall, who represented opposition leader Bharrat Jagdeo in the no-confidence motion cases before the Court of Appeal, has asked acting Chancellor Yonette Cummings-Edwards to ensure that the final decisions accurately reflect his opposition to the suggestion that the constitution implied that an “absolute majority” was needed for the success of the vote. 

Murder accused Kevin Garraway was yesterday acquitted after Justice Navindra Singh directed a 12-member jury to return a formal verdict of not guilty as the state did not meet the burden of proof for the charge.

A man was charged yesterday with killing his cousin by fatally stabbing him with an arrow during an argument at a Cuyuni River mining camp.

The New Amsterdam Technical Institute (NATI) has launched an investigation after a video surfaced on Tuesday showing a student beating three of his schoolmates with a belt.

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) has urged opposition leader Bharrat Jagdeo and the PPP/C to rethink their plan to boycott sittings when the National Assembly reconvenes, while saying that both government and the opposition must work together to unite the nation and secure its patrimony for the benefit of all. 

A youth was yesterday charged with the murder of a man.

The Ministry of Communities has requested that the new Mayor and City Council (M&CC) meet and discuss the future of the metered parking project, Town Clerk (Ag) Sharon Harry-Munroe has disclosed.

The Ministry of Public Health, along with the Pan American Health Organisation/ World Health Organisation (PAHO/ WHO), will be adding a new drug to its Lymphatic Filariasis campaign and extending the campaign’s reach, with the hopes of eliminating the disease by next year.

A 25-year-old Lancaster, Corentyne man is now a patient at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital in a stable condition after he was stabbed and chopped during a fight with a fellow villager early yesterday morning.