Guyana News

A battle for control of Canadian miner, Guyana Goldfields Inc (GGI) is set to culminate on May 22 and the Board of Directors on Tuesday hit back at accusations that they have mismanaged the company, outlining a number of actions taken since terminating the services of former Executive Chairman Patrick Sheridan.

Pensioners and retirees of the former Guyana Telecommunications Corporation (GTC) and GTT, are threatening legal action against the government if they do not heed calls to pay over pension owed.

Charged with attempting to smuggle less than a pound of cannabis into the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, a mother of three was yesterday remanded to prison.

Two teenage boys were remanded yesterday after they were accused of using a knife to rob a man of his phone and other articles.

Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MoPI), Technical Services Manager, Nigel Erskine has announced that the East Coast Demerara (ECD) road widening project is fifty-five percent completed So far, the contractor, China Railway First Group Limited, has finished the construction of 14.2 kilometres of the reinforced concrete side drain and 473 metres of reinforced revetment.

Agriculture is taking off in the mainly mining community of Mahdia in Region 8.

The University of Guyana (UG) yesterday launched its BSc degree in food science at an all-day symposium at the Turkeyen Campus.

A Lodge resident was yesterday granted bail after he was charged with fraudulently converting $1.1 million in Mercedes car parts.

Eleven schools, along with surrounding communities on the East Coast of Demerara, will soon be benefitting from the services of a bookmobile that was commissioned yesterday by the National Library, in collaboration with the Rotary Club of Georgetown.

A father of six accused of trafficking 15 grammes of marijuana, was yesterday granted bail by a city court.

A La Bonne Intention (LBI) family is seeking answers from the police after a relative who was in police custody ended up hospitalised in a critical state at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

As the police probe into the break-in at the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) office at Melanie Damishana, East Coast Demerara earlier this month continues, two persons were detained for questioning and subsequently released.

Caribbean Airlines today said that due to a global outage of Amadeus that was affecting all airlines using the  system, Caribbean Airlines was temporarily unable to ticket customers at ticket offices, the call centre or online.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Trump administration ratcheted up pressure on Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro today, announcing U.S.

With a 90-day constitutional  clock ticking, the Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM) has mandated Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield to prepare a report of possible scenarios with timelines for the holding of general and regional elections for discussion tomorrow when the commission meets again.

A taxi driver was shot dead at McDoom, East Bank Demerara  last night by a gunman on a bike who later fled the scene on foot with an accomplice.

With plans to create over 200 jobs for locals in the oil and gas sector, an overseas-based Guyanese is partnering with an experienced United Kingdom offshore support company to create another shore-based operation in Region Four.

A city magistrate yesterday sentenced a former police officer to four years for trafficking almost a pound of cocaine found at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), while his two co-accused were freed.

The police administration of ‘B’ Division (Berbice) is undergoing a shake-up with the assignment of Deputy Commander Superintendent Wayne Dehearte to head Sub-Division Three.

A minibus conductor was yesterday charged with two counts of raping a 13-year-old girl.