Guyana News

A second man was yesterday charged with the fatal shooting of taxi driver Kelvin Walters.

Warning that “major calamity” is on the horizon, A New and United Guyana (ANUG) co-founder Ralph Ramkarran on Wednesday said the government and opposition should agree on a compromise to extend the approaching constitutional deadline for the holding of general elections.

Rick Sewcharran, who was charged with the unlawful killing of his girlfriend, Sasia Adams, has requested to make an oral statement after a city court found that a case was made out against him.

The secretariat of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has written to the Ministry of Finance seeking advice on whether the $3 billion allocated for House-to-House registration in 2019 can be used to fund elections this year.

A teenager of Swan Village, Soesdyke-Linden Highway was fatally stabbed by his drinking buddy following a quarrel over the suspect’s slippers.

Accepting acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire’s recent ruling that persons who are dual citizens cannot be Members of Parliament (MPs), the People’s Progressive Party/Civic will replace members who hold such status if it has to return to the National Assembly to set a date for the elections, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo disclosed yesterday.

A Cuban doctor and his wife were yesterday sentenced to 12 months in prison after pleading guilty to forging their passports.

Minister of Social Protec-tion Amna Ally has sued Stabroek News and its Editor-in-Chief over a report on whether she had dual citizenship  even though she had refused to answer the question.

The Deaf Association of Guyana is to stage a picket on Monday seeking to have Deaf persons approved to legally drive vehicles.

Following what they have called an “unfortunate” meeting with the Department of Labour, the University of Guyana Workers’ Union (UGWU) and the University of Guyana Senior Staff Association (UGSSA) yesterday said threats will not deter them from their efforts for a forensic audit of the university’s finances.

A taxi-driver was remanded to prison yesterday after he was charged with trafficking over eight pounds of cannabis that were reportedly found in the trunk of the car he had been driving.

The Central Housing and Planning Authority yesterday began a three-day exercise to aid residents of Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam squatting area to apply for their land titles.

Erwin Smith, the Plaisance youth who was charged last year with attempting to kill a man with a pair of scissors, has been committed to stand trial at the High Court for the crime.

Swift action by Corentyne lawmen yesterday afternoon led to the arrest of two men suspected to have robbed and injured a Chinese national who operates a window store located in Springlands, Upper Corentyne.

A ceremony was on Tues-day held to commemorate the birth centenary of Guyana’s patriotic and classical music composer, Valerie Muriel Rodway, at which a building on Carmichael Street was renamed in her honour.

The police in both Guyana and Suriname yesterday confirmed to Stabroek News, that they are still investigating the execution-style killing of a Suriname rice dealer whose body was found in January on the No 63 Beach, Corentyne.

Two men, one of whom has served a jail sentence for wounding the other, were rushed to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital on Tuesday, after their most recent altercation resulted in them both sustaining stab wounds.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) today said that it had been the victim of a cyber attack on February 6th and had also been issued a ransom demand which it rejected.

The Bar Council of the Bar Association of Guyana  yesterday said that neither appeals nor applications for orders act as a stay on the 90-day clock set in the constitution for general elections and it lamented that 54 days have elapsed without a date being set.

Over its four decades-long presence in Guyana, the European Union (EU) has provided over $20.1 billion (€85 million) in grant funding for the construction and rehabilitation of the country’s sea defence structures.