Guyana News

Lennox Williams, the truck driver charged with causing the death of a pensioner who was struck down on the Houston, East Bank Demerara (EBD) Public Road in August, 2017, was on Friday freed of the offence.

Saipem, ExxonMobil Guyana’s prime contractor for subsea installation services has offloaded its second shipment of 2684 pipes for the Liza Phase One project. 

An East Canje, Berbice hire car driver is on the run after he allegedly attempted to rape a teenager who was a passenger in his car sometime last Friday morning.

The trial of Rosanna Ramnarine and Deborah Forbes, former employees of the Guyana Gold Board (GGB) who are accused of defrauding the agency, is slated to begin next month.

Five months after the heavy duty knife turbine at the Uitvlugt Estate developed significant technical problems which delayed the start for the second crop at that estate, the probe into the incident is still to be completed.

Approximately one hundred youths turned up at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Saturday morning to participate in ‘Part Two’ of an interactive session on the oil and gas sector.

A Venezuelan national was arrested on Thursday after he was found with five rounds of ammunition by police on patrol at the Eteringbang Landing, Cuyuni River.

A Cuban tattoo artist who exceeded his one-month stay permit, was on Friday fined, after pleading guilty to the offence in a city court.

Residents of Sea View, Stewartville, West Coast Demerara, have complained of illegal structures in their community that house shops which play loud music at nights and disturb the peace of the area.

Former Honorary Consul for Germany and Austria in Guyana, Ben ter Welle passed away yesterday in his home country of the Netherlands after a brief illness.

A contract was signed last Monday for the preparation of final designs and provision of construction supervision services for the expansion and refurbishment of three Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) facilities at the secondary level.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said today that his proposed immigration deal to end a 30-day partial government shutdown would not lead to amnesty for “Dreamers,” but appeared to signal support for amnesty as part of a broader immigration agreement.

New People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) presidential candidate Irfaan Ali yesterday said he does not see himself as anyone’s puppet or as an individual within his party but as part of a team to implement its programme on assuming the reins of government after the next elections.

Saying that the administration has desecrated the process used to select Senior Counsel (SC), attorney Sanjeev Datadin yesterday expressed concern at the decision to recall the conferral of ‘silk’ on fellow attorney Timothy Jonas following his involvement in the establishment of new political party, A New and United Guyana (ANUG).

“No one in their right mind is going to happily come to face the hurricane that is politics in Guyana—the mudslinging, the ugliness, the unfair accusations, the cross accusations and the skepticism from the voters who are not happy.

The attorney for chartered accountant Christopher Ram on Friday submitted to the High Court that based on the principles of interpretation, 33 votes constitute a majority for the passage of the no-confidence motion against the government.

While Guyana awaits the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on the validity of the 1899 Arbitral Award on its border with Venezuela, the military, security services and civilians must identify and protest acts of aggression driven by Venezuela’s spurious claim to the Essequibo region and most of the country’s maritime space, retired Major General Joe Singh says.

Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Chairman James Patterson is still at home resting, according to the commission’s Public Relations Officer (PRO) Yolanda Warde, who says photos of him that were circulated online by an opposition Member of Parliament (MP) were not recently taken.

A year and a half after being told they would be given land and proper homes, residents of the Lombard and Broad streets, Charlestown squatting area are still waiting for the promise to come to fruition.

Officials of the Communities and Finance ministries are set to meet with the Local Government Commission (LGC) after discovering that the 2019 employment cost for its commissioners and staff will account for 91.4% of its total budgetary allocation for the year.