Guyana News

Ex-policeman Prince Reid has been handed a life sentence with the possibility of parole, only after serving 23 years, for the killing of two men into whom he had driven his minibus during a gaming fracas at Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Demerara, back in 2017.

A security guard who told the police he was ‘trying a hustle’ will soon face the court on a charge of trafficking in marijuana while another man will also be charged with possession of a small amount of the said drug he said was for his personal use.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) is moving ahead with its crop extension plans, President Irfaan Ali told workers attached to the Blairmont Estate during a recent meeting.

As a result of a prolonged drought, Guyana is now battling an increase of wildfires countrywide, and Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday stressed that the livelihoods of communities are being affected with farmers even requesting the help of accessing irrigation water.

A 23-year-old man was on Thursday arrested at his Good Hope, East Coast Demerara home with some 107.32 grammes of marijuana.

Thirty-year-old Joel Benjamin of Queenstown, Essequibo Coast, was on Thursday charged with attempted murder when he appeared before Magistrate Tamieka Clarke at the Suddie Magistrate’s court.

In an effort to improve the country’s literacy initiatives the Ministry of Education recently organised a specialised training session on Scholastic Guided Reading for officers of the National Literacy Department and regional literacy coordinators. 

The construction of the first 100 young professional homes has commenced at Silica City, as part of the area’s first-phase development, a Ministry of Housing and Water release stated recently.

The Guyana Police Force last evening cautioned motorists using the Soesdyke-Linden Highway to be careful as there were two motor lorries that were immovable due to ‘cut out’ springs.

US Ambassador to Guyana, Nicole Theriot, accompanied by a representative of the Regional Security System (RSS), Regional Security Officer (RSO), Mayah Shih, on Thursday morning paid a courtesy call on acting Commissioner of Police, Clifton Hicken at his Eve Leary, Georgetown office, a release from the Guyana Police Force stated.

During the University of Guyana’s hosting of a discussion on intellectual property (IP) rights yesterday, Professor Leyland Lucas of the School of Entrepreneurship Business and Innovation (SEBI) highlighted the importance of understanding and protecting intellectual property in a rapidly growing economy like Guyana.

The Guyana Defence Force today informed of a tragic incident relating to a collision between a Coast Guard vessel and a civilian vessel in the Moruca River, Region One (Barima Waini), resulting in loss of lives.

Police are investigating the murder of Edward Bramnarine, also known as Eddy, a 49-year-old ‘vagrant’, whose body was discovered at about 11.20 last night on Water and Holmes streets, Georgetown.

The government and the opposition yesterday condemned Venezuela’s latest activation of legislation to annex Guyana’s Essequibo region, noting that it violates the Argyle Agreement signed in December last year.

In the wake of 38 people being evacuated from Santa Mission/Santa-Aratak and neighbouring communities yesterday morning as a wildfire escalated to a point where firefighters were unable to access the affected areas in order to extinguish it, citizens around the country are urged to be vigilant.

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) yesterday announced that it had written to Minister of Labour Joseph Hamilton informing him of plans to initiate strike action, which Hamilton said goes against a pending court case instigated by the union.

Farmer Richard Martin has been sentenced to 13 years in jail for the September 2020 killing of Bourda Market labourer Ovid Chester, who was stabbed after he reportedly conned Martin out of a construction net that he promised to sell.

Those persons who were left counting their losses due to the damages incurred to their homes and businesses following the fatal accident that claimed the life of 21-year-old pedestrian, Nicholas Khelawon, on Tuesday morning on the public road at Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara, are now demanding to be compensated.

Police in Linden yesterday said they arrested two men with some 9,979 grammes of suspected cannabis while a third was arrested for offering a bribe of $453,000 to the lawmen to release the suspects.

A US-based Guyanese who was allegedly found with an unlicensed firearm and ammunition on Sunday last at a horse racing event in Berbice has been charged and remanded to prison.