Guyana News

Police in Mazaruni, Region Seven have launched an investigation into the death of a 57-year-old miner which occurred on Saturday night.

A man who was swimming outside of the Splashmins Fun Park yesterday is missing and his family is fearful that he might have drowned.

Thousands of residents between Bel Air Gardens, Georgetown and Liliendaal, Greater Georgetown and other communities on the East Coast of Demerara yesterday suffered a 15-hour power outage.

Farmers need not be concerned about water challenges in the current dry season as the conservancies have enough water to meet their needs, Chief Executive Officer of the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) Fredrick Flatts has assured.

A New and United Guyana (ANUG), has called on the APNU+AFC and the PPP/C to agree that elections should be held in late November or early December regardless of the outcome of any court appeals and for house-to-house registration to commence immediately.

Regional Executive Officer of Region Ten, Orrin Gordon says that plans are on stream to secure some eight teachers for Kwakwani as students prepare to write the CSEC exams later this year.

Newly-accredited United States Ambassador to Guyana, Sarah-Ann Lynch, on Friday handed over 21 new automatic weather stations to the Hydrometeorological Department.

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has unveiled its Strategic Plan for 2019-2024, under the theme ‘Unlocking Potential’, which outlines 14 goals and 41 accompanying strategies to improve the organisation.

A man was remanded to prison on Friday after being charged with having three grammes of cocaine in his possession.

A man was is now a remanded prisoner after being accused of a knife-point robbery.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – Former West Indies team manager Ricky Skerritt and Dr Kishore Shallow are the new president and vice-president of Cricket West Indies (CWI).

Optimistic that it can deliver a skills transfer system in the provision of marine logistics services to equip locals to run its operations here, United States-based marine transportation company Harvey Gulf has set up an office in Guyana.

With plans to be in Guyana for several decades, ExxonMobil is forging ahead with plans for the construction of its local headquarters at Ogle, on the East Coast of Demerara.

Saying that he believes that the Court of Appeal was wrong in its pronouncement on what constituted a majority in last December’s vote on a no-confidence motion against the government, attorney and accountant Christopher Ram yesterday said he has instructed that his attorney appeal the decision at the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).

Following more than 40 years without potable water, the 3,000 residents of the D’Urban Backlands squatting area, known as ‘Burnham Boulevard,’ in Georgetown, yesterday received 29 standpipes from the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI).

A Calcutta, Mahaicony family is now seeking justice after the death of a five-day-old baby, who succumbed on Wednesday after being rushed to the Mahaicony Hospital for the third time within a day.

President David Granger has successfully completed the first phase of his medical treatment in Cuba for Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, according to Guyana’s Ambassador to Cuba Halim Majeed.

A 19-year-old miner is now dead after he was fatally stabbed by his drunken employer on Friday evening at Blackwater Backdam, Cuyuni River.

Over a dozen families from Tiger Bay, Georgetown, were presented with food and medicinal hampers yesterday, as part of a community outreach programme undertaken by the Department of Social Cohesion, Culture Youth and Sport, in partnership with German’s Restaurant.

It has been over six years since Sherry (not her real name) has been in the ‘system’ and now legally an adult she can walk out of state care any day, but she believes the stability and security she receives in state care would be replaced by chaos should she return to her family.