Guyana News

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) is yet to apprehend the man who beat and stabbed his ex-wife during an attack on Wednesday morning.

Chief Constable Andrew Foo, on Wednesday morning called an emergency meeting to address claims of victimization by one of their constabulary officers, made in a Kaieteur News article published last Sunday.

Even as the Guyana Goldfields Inc. (GGI) continues working with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to meet the requirements needed for a permit for underground mining at its Aurora gold mine in Region Seven, government has called for a speedy and amicable resolution of the company’s internal power struggle.

Commissioner of Police Leslie James on Wednes-day urged new recruits to remain respectful of citizens as they embark on their new careers with the force.

A 35-year-old tyre repairman was on Wednesday dealt a one-year suspended sentence over the possession of an unlicensed firearm, after changing his plea in a city court.

Two Venezuelan nationals were yesterday remanded to prison for allegedly breaking into and stealing over $1 million worth of valuables from a shop in Kaikan, Region 7.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) has welcomed the decision taken by the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in December last year to include the private sector and labour as associate institutions in the Conferences of the CARICOM Heads of Government.

The Integrated Regional Tax Office (IRTO) of the Guyana Revenue Authority in Bartica has been relocated to a new and more conducive location on the corner of Fifth Avenue and First Street, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said yesterday.

Government of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana statement on rulings of Chief Justice Roxane George The Government of Guyana notes and respects the rulings of the Chief Justice (ag) Roxane George handed down today, January 31st, 2019.

Chief Justice Roxane George this afternoon ruled that Cabinet should have resigned with immediate effect upon the passage of the vote of no-confidence against the government on December 21st.

Chief Justice Roxane George this afternoon ruled that 33 is the majority for the purposes of  carrying a vote of no-confidence in Parliament.

The vote of former APNU+AFC MP Charrandass Persaud which brought down the government in a vote of no-confidence on December 21  is valid, Chief Justice Roxane George ruled this afternoon.

The UK today terminated the contract that Dr Sam Sittlington has with the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU).

The advice offered to PPP presidential candidate Irfaan Ali by the Canadian High Commission of Trinidad and Tobago appears to be in line with the country’s laws related to “criminal inadmissibility” of Foreign Nationals.

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – The European Parliament recognised Venezuela’s self-declared interim president Juan Guaido as de facto head of state today, heightening international pressure on the OPEC member’s socialist President Nicolas Maduro.

Ahead of today’s ruling in the court action filed by Christopher Ram asking for declarations that the December 21 no-confidence motion was validly passed and that the President and his Cabinet should immediately resign, Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire, SC, yesterday heard additional arguments on what is meant by the resignation of Cabinet with “immediate effect.”

United Kingdom advisor to the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), Dr Sam Sittlington, has registered a local branch of his company to deal with fraud, money laundering and related matters.

Four persons have been questioned as the police continue to probe violent threats made on Facebook to the student body of the School of the Nations, and the subsequent shooting of its principal outside his home on Sunday.

The National Insurance Scheme yesterday announced that the old age pension and survivor’s pension will rise along with the insurable income ceiling.

Kallicharran Sawak, the La Bonne Intention (LBI) man who succumbed on Monday to injuries he sustained while in police custody last week, died as a result of multiple injuries due to blunt trauma about the body, an autopsy yesterday showed.