Guyana News

An Albion Front, Corentyne man will return to the High Court in March for sentencing after he was found guilty of felonious wounding following a chopping incident in August 2021.

The police yesterday said that on Monday a man jumped off his motorcycle on the Ituni Trail and abandoned around 34 lbs of suspected ganja.

Police are investigating the discovery of skeletal remains which were found in a drain without water in the BOSAI compound yesterday morning.

Police are investigating the suspected drowning of Alexander Angoy, a 31-year-old miner of Diamond Housing Scheme, EBD, which occurred at about 19:07 hrs on Monday evening at Chinese Creek backdam, Puruni River, in Region Seven.

General Secretary of the Guyana Teachers Union, Coretta Mc Donald yesterday met with hundreds of educators in Region Two as their strike entered its fourth day.

Sky High Aviation Services will launch three weekly flights connecting the Dominican Republic with Guyana, beginning February 18, 2024.

Police are investigating the suspected drowning of Alexander Angoy, a 31-year-old miner of Diamond Housing Scheme, EBD, which occurred at about 19:07 hrs on Monday evening at Chinese Creek backdam, Puruni River, in Region Seven.

(Reuters) Quitol (Goa): India wants to sign a multi-year oil purchase deal with Guyana and acquire stakes in the South American nation’s exploration areas, the Guyanese minister for natural resources said today.

By Abigail Headley As their union’s strike enters the fourth day today, teachers yesterday kept up the pressure on the government for collective bargaining.

The fire on Saturday, February 3rd at the power plant of the Albion Sugar Factory caused serious damage, according to a statement yesterday from GuySuCo.

Amid delay in a key loan being finalized, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has written to the United States EXIM Bank expressing support for the bank’s financing of the huge gas-to-shore project.

Police officers have been visiting schools on the East Coast and the East Bank of Demerara, to gather information pertaining to teachers’ attendance in the wake of the strike called by the GTU.

“I want to apologize to the deceased family. I never meant to take their loved one’s life.”

Scores of teachers in Region Two continue to gather in front of the region’s Department of Education demanding an increase in their salaries.

Major works for the US$6m Liliendaal pump station are being done offsite.

By Mia Anthony As the teachers’ strike enters its fourth day today, schools all across the country continue to be affected.

The sum of $12 million will be spent on the purchase of desktop computers for several Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs) to aid them in the Single Window process which will soon be implemented by the government to ease doing business here.

The police yesterday issued wanted bulletins for two men over a series of robberies in the Cuyuni and Windsor Castle on the Essequibo Coast.

Twenty-three-year-old mother of two, Melissa Cort, appeared yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court before Chief Magistrate (ag) Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus after it was alleged that on February 5, while at the Supreme Court lockups, she took 20 cigarettes and one lighter to her boyfriend, Patrick Smith, who is on trial for a capital offence.

A twenty-one-year-old man of Lot 690 Kuru Kuru, Soesdyke-Linden Highway, was arraigned before Magistrate Rhondel Weever at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Monday, charged with illegal possession of a tear gas canister.