Guyana News

The Guyana Elections Commission is urging citizens to be alert and not divulge personal information to people visiting their homes under the pretext of seeking information as GECOM representatives.

  Three persons are in custody over a large quantity of drugs found in a Charlestown house on Tuesday by the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU).

Residents of Region Six yesterday held a picketing exercise outside of the New Amsterdam Public Hospital, in an effort to let their frustrations over poor conditions and delivery of services at the facility be heard.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has asked its secretariat to provide versions of a work plan with timelines within which general and regional elections can be held.

The manager of a city store is seeking to be heard, after his reports about a “mentally ill” vagrant who continually throws objects into the store, placing staff and customers in danger, went unheard by the police.

The Rural Agricultural Infrastructure Development (RAID) project is taking root in Ithaca, West Berbice.

A study conducted by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has concluded that jobs in education and health are good quality jobs, especially for women since their remuneration has grown significantly in recent years and they are more likely to provide a pension in old age.

A taxi driver was yesterday charged for fraudulently converting $3.7 million in top up from a mobile operating store to his own use, after he was entrusted to sell it.

Two men who are suspected to be homeless, were yesterday charged with stealing women’s underwear.

PPP presidential candidate Irfaan Ali says he has been advised by Canada not to travel there as a result of the 19 charges brought against him by the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) and he has been given 30 days to respond.

Chief Executive Officer of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited Horace James has passed away.

School of the Nations will remain closed for the remainder of the week as its administration works to address parents’ concerns about security in light of violent threats made to the student body on Facebook and the shooting of its principal outside his home on Sunday.

Opposition-nominated commissioners of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) were not informed of any meeting to take place on Monday with diplomats from the United States, Britain, Canada and the European Union (EU), Commissioner Sase Gunraj has said.

The police are currently on the hunt for a motorcyclist who fled on Monday night after he allegedly struck a 70-year-old man along the Nismes, West Bank Demerara (WBD) Public Road, resulting in his death.

Kallicharran Sawak, the La Bonne Intention (LBI) man who was hospitalised after days in police custody, succumbed on Monday evening at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

A legal opinion drafted by former Attorney General Anil Nandlall in February 2015 is being cited as support for the continued normal functioning of the APNU+AFC government in the period between the passage of the no confidence motion and the holding of General Elections.

A mother of three was left critical yesterday after she was stabbed during an attack by her ex-husband early yesterday morning at Eccles, East Bank Demerara (EBD).

Although rehabilitation works are due to start on the dilapidated Leguan Stelling sometime this year, the Ministry of Public Infrastructure has been forced to mobilise for emergency repair works after the stelling’s low ramp broke on Monday.

Sales and consumer traffic have decreased at the Giftland Mall as a result of the roadblocks erected for official activities at the nearby Arthur Chung Conference Centre preventing many customers from getting to the mall, according to Chairman of the Giftland Group Roy Beepat.

A city shop owner was remanded to prison yesterday after he was charged with possession of narcotics.