Guyana News

A middle-aged man was on Monday sentenced to spend the next 14 years in prison after he admitted to raping an underage girl three years ago. 

Over 100 People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) members and supporters took to the streets of Kingston, in Georgetown yesterday to protest for the holding of general and regional elections by the three-month deadline set out by the constitution in the wake of the passage of the no-confidence motion against government on December 21st.

An elderly man was yesterday sentenced to serve 12 and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter for the 2010 murder of his childhood friend.

Closing arguments were made by the prosecution and defence yesterday in the trial of Mark Royden Williams and Sherwin Nero, who are charged with murdering Cove and John resident Kumar Singh, called ‘Mango Man.’

The executive staff of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is currently being restructured as part of its succession planning following a de-bunching exercise, Commissioner-General Godfrey Statia has revealed.

A city court yesterday granted bail to Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Seecharran Singh, who was recently charged with the rape of a 13-year-old girl.

A 31-year-old Sophia resident died on Monday evening, hours after he allegedly ran into the path of a motor lorry along the No.61 Public Road, Corentyne, Berbice.

Police in ‘F’ Division say they are investigating the death of a fifty-four-year-old who was found unconscious in a mining pit at Ominaik Village, Upper Mazaruni River on Monday.

The trial of Maurice Prince, who is accused of murdering Smyth Street businessman O’Riley Small, is expected to begin today before Justice Navindra Singh.

The Guyana Energy Agency yesterday received a $15M bid as it looks to procure the country’s first electric vehicle.

Bail was granted to a youth who was charged yesterday with stabbing his “drinking partner” during a night out.

One more scoping meeting for the East Coast/East Bank road link project is scheduled to take place before the development of the Terms of Reference (ToR) by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), according to Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) Technical Services Manger Nigel Erskine.

As Georgetown’s Mayor and City Council (M&CC) awaits a second legal opinion on the validity of its existing contracts with garbage collectors Puran Brothers Disposal Services Incorporated and Cevons Waste Management Incorporated, it has opted to continue to retain the services of five smaller companies until the end of this month.

Lindeners can expect 200 new jobs in the field of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) by the end of this year, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

The opposition PPP today rejected timelines for general elections drawn up by GECOM as they do not comply with the requirement for general elections within three months from December 21st when a motion of no-confidence was passed against the government.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States is sending food and medical supplies to Colombia’s border with Venezuela where it will be stockpiled until it can be delivered to the economically shattered nation, U.S.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Secretariat has presented July as the earliest date for the holding of general and regional elections, according to two commissioners who showed up for a meeting of the Commission’s operations sub-committee yesterday.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) has voiced concern over public statements by APNU+AFC administration representatives which they say deny the express ruling of acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire to uphold the no-confidence motion passed against government on December 21st last year.

An alleged speeding driver is dead, while a woman who was travelling with him is now critically injured after they crashed into a city council truck parked along Princes Street, in Georgetown early yesterday morning.

The seven persons accused of killing Meten-Meer-Zorg grocer Zulfikar Namdar were yesterday acquitted after being found not guilty of the crime by a jury.