Guyana News

The changing of the name of the Guyana Police Force to the Guyana Police Service is only a proposal at this stage, according to Top Cop, Leslie James.

Students of the Port Kaituma and Matthews Ridge Secondary schools, engaged in a debate competition last week, held in observance of GBTI’s Port Kaituma branch anniversary.

Surinamese politician Chandrikapersad Santokhi has been invited to deliver the feature address at the Annual Dinner of Transparency International Guyana Inc (TIGI).

Reporting on its mission here this week, the Atlanta, Georgia-based Carter Center today said it hopes that Parliament will convene no later than tomorrow to authorize an extension of the three-month election deadline and it noted the constitutional uncertainty than can arise if this is not done.

Police Commissioner Leslie James today issued the following statement: A Happy and Joyous Holi, greetings to all my Hindu Brothers and Sisters in Guyana and within the diaspora. 

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo this afternoon rejected a plan by President David Granger to name a date for general elections using the GECOM benchmark of November and he warned again that as of midnight tonight the government would be considered illegal.

President David Granger is to shortly name a date for general elections using the framework supplied by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) which had indicated that it would be ready by November this year.

Given the concerns expressed that the existing voters’ list is ‘bloated’ with the names of Guyanese living abroad, representatives of the Atlanta, Georgia-based Carter Center yesterday suggested to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) that general elections can be held in August if existing legislation is activated to remove such names from the list.

The Guyana Court of Appeal will be delivering its ruling at 3 pm tomorrow on all three of the challenges to the December 21st, 2018 passage of the no-confidence motion against the David Granger-led government.

A total of 140 Venezuelan migrants were processed  by the police yesterday morning after arriving in the city and while about half were released into the care of acquaintances/relatives, the others are being accommodated at Police Headquarters, Eve Leary.

Just over a month after a labour dispute erupted at the Russian-owned Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI), the standoff has come to an end with the firm agreeing to reinstate 61 sacked workers and negotiate a new Collective Labour Agreement (CLA) with the workers’ union.

Fazil Osman, the Mahaica farmer who is accused of brutally chopping his reputed wife last month while she was accompanying a rural constable to serve a protection order on him, was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with attempted murder.

A 12-member jury yesterday found a man guilty of carnal knowledge of a child, who was four years old at the time of the incident.

Chairman of Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) David Armogan on Tuesday said that if Guyana enters a “constitutional crisis,” then regional contracts which have not been awarded should be put on hold.

New US Ambassador to Guyana Sarah-Ann Lynch while congratulating the country on the establishing of a Sovereign Wealth Fund has cautioned about the need to balance between short and long-term goals for the use of resources.

Police have arrested a man in connection with the murder of Beterverwagting (BV) bread vendor, Clairmont Telesford, who was discovered dead on Sunday morning shortly after a robbery at his home.

Residents of Timehri North and Hauraruni, East Bank of Demerara, are now receiving improved access to potable water as a result of the Water Supply System Improvement Sub-Projects, the Guyana Water Inc (GWI) has reported.

Lancelot Grandsoult, the 50-year-old caretaker who was discovered dead on Monday in the yard of a Castello Housing Scheme property he oversaw for a number of years, died of natural causes, an autopsy has found.

A 67-year-old man who appeared in the city’s magistrates’ court before Magistrate Faith McGusty, was yesterday found guilty on a wounding charge.

A total of 4,917 cases of child abuse were recorded last year, while 495 have been reported for January 2019, a statement from the Child Care and Protection Agency (CPA) has said, even as its Director, Ann Greene, called for journalists to confirm the validity of data before publishing.