Guyana News

Within “a matter of days,” the 35-member Central Committee of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) will be casting their votes for a presidential candidate to lead the party into the next general and regional elections, General Secretary and Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo said yesterday.

British High Commissioner to Guyana Greg Quinn says that his Government’s plans to build a military base in the Caribbean is part of its demonstration that they are a “global player” and are determined to remaining a global player going forward but there has been no request for one here in Guyana.

The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is warning of the possibility of a major outbreak of the mosquito-borne dengue fever.

United Kingdom (UK) High Commissioner to Guyana Greg Quinn says there is a need to have the court decision on the recently passed no-confidence motion against the APNU+AFC Government quickly “so we all know what happens next.”

The individual who is accused of smuggling 70 live finches inside hair rollers from Guyana into the US and later deported was questioned by the police, Crime Chief Lyndon Alves told Stabroek News yesterday.

The Cheddi Jagan International Airport Corporation (CJIAC) recorded an overall increase in passenger movement last year, with the international arrivals up by 9% and arriving passengers representing the majority of the traffic.

New political party A New and United Guyana (ANUG) has joined calls for the legalisation of marijuana for recreational and medical uses and according to one of its founding members, Timothy Jonas, such a move will reduce the burden on the justice system and ease overcrowding in the prisons.

A man and his common-law wife, who were both charged last year after allegedly being found with a quantity of ecstasy, were yesterday freed of the charge after the prosecution failed to prove its case.

Presidential candidate of the newly-launched Liberty and Justice Party (LJP) Lenox Shuman has said that if he had not met the eligibility criteria for the presidency, he would not have accepted the nomination to be the candidate.

A juvenile is in police custody in Linden since Wednesday, after he directed ranks to an abandoned house in McKenzie where he had hidden an unlicensed firearm.

Noel George, a youth who was charged with armed robbery, was remanded to prison yesterday after a city magistrate heard that he previously faced similar charges and has a pending matter before the court.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, a team from the Bridges Global Medical Mission visited the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC) and conducted a two-day clinic, where scores of patients benefited from diagnoses and treatment, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said yesterday.

Five fields that were under ganja cultivation, were yesterday destroyed during a thirteen-hour narcotics eradication operation at Tabatalli, Berbice River, police say.

In Tuesday’s edition of Stabroek News under the headline ‘Kumaka vendors get bail on break and enter charge’,  photographs of two men  which were identified as those of defendants in the story – Derek Persaud and Leon Singh were incorrect.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who along with the president has repeatedly denied that any collusion occurred between Russia and other people in Trump’s 2016 campaign, retreated from those earlier broad statements, saying he had no idea whether any aides colluded with Moscow during that time.

Although the court has not granted a stay of the successful motion of no confidence which triggered a 90-day timeframe for the holding of general elections, the Alliance for Change (AFC) does not believe polls will be held by March 22nd.

A Fyrish Village, Corentyne man was yesterday charged with the murder of the Number 70 mason, whose lifeless body was found a short distance away from his house on Thursday last.

Prior to the submission of names for its 12 members of parliament in 2015, the  Alliance for Change said it asked its members if they had dual citizenship that would prevent them from taking up seats in contravention of Article 155(1) and Charrandass Persaud did not declare his.

A caterer was yesterday remanded to prison on four counts of trafficking in persons and one count of withholding an identification card.

Nitender Oemrawsingh, the Surinamese rice dealer who was killed execution-style in Guyana after being linked to the largest drug bust in his country had been a frequent visitor to Skeldon, Corentyne, a relative said yesterday.