Guyana News

Three months after a man died from being pinned inside a fuel truck which crashed into the fence of the National Stadium at Providence, on the East Bank of Demerara, the driver of the vehicle has been charged.

Charged in 2017 with killing her husband at Queen Street, Kitty, Lisa Keisha Halley was yesterday committed to stand trial for the crime.

National footballer, Jobe Caesar, was yesterday remanded to prison, after charges of armed robbery and damage to property were brought against him at a city court.

Coconut prices have increased significantly over the last year but the exact reason for the bump is not clear though some vendors blame the rise in fuel prices in 2018 while others cite a hike in exports.

Months into ‘Operation Pale Horse,’ which was launched by the National Anti-Narcotics Agency (NANA) last year, achievements have been recorded, Director Major General (Ret’d) Michael Atherly says.

Despite the rice industry facing challenges throughout last year, General Manager of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB), Nizam Hassan, said that over the two crops, 965,120 tonnes of paddy was produced, attaining  90% of the industry’s target.

A remorseful Paul Scotland, was on Tuesday sentenced to 16 years in prison for the 2014 stabbing of his partner, Monica Adams.

Doctors have declared that Reaz Shaw, the teen who is now bedridden after he was critically injured in last month’s hit-and-run accident along the Annandale, East Coast Demerara (ECD) Public Road, would need extensive physiotherapy sessions in order for him to recover.

The trial of six men and one woman accused of murdering Meten-Meer-Zorg businessman Zulfikar Namdar, continued yesterday with the testimony of three police witnesses.

Minister of Social Cohesion, Dr George Norton on Monday, appealed for more private sector involvement in the activities planned in observance of Guyana’s 49th Republic Anniversary which has a $100m budget.

A miner who initially pleaded “guilty with explanation”, was remanded to prison yesterday, after he was charged for stealing a bicycle.

A man was yesterday sentenced to six months imprisonment after he told a city magistrate to do what she had to because he would be unable to pay off a $30,000 debt he incurred for the services of a taxi driver.

Crime and security are regional problems, requiring a regional solution, CARICOM Secretary General Irwin La Rocque asserted yesterday, lobbying for member states to fully cooperate to address the issues, and reminding of the passing of a strategy to address same.

The Region 10, Regional Democratic Council (RDC) is recruiting regional farmers to supply fresh produce  for hot meals to be prepared for students residing in far-flung communities.

Twenty-eight lucky GTT customers on Monday were treated with customer appreciation packages for their support to the company’s services over the past 28 years.

Some 24 miles of road from Rukumutu to Yurongperu, South Pakaraimas in Region Nine, will be upgraded to the tune of $5 million.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) says it has given serious and continuing consideration to the fact that the motion of no confidence in the Government, passed in the National Assembly on December 21, 2018, requires that general elections must be held within ninety days of the passing of the motion.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May’s government won a confidence vote in the British parliament today, clearing the way for her to attempt to forge a consensus among lawmakers on a Brexit divorce agreement.

Acknowledging the public interest, Chief Justice (ag) Roxane George-Wiltshire SC yesterday said she expected to hand down rulings by month end in the three challenges filed on the December 21st no-confidence motion against government.

An 18-year-old cattle hand was remanded to prison yesterday after he was charged with the December 31st murders of the Bush Lot farmers Premcharran and Harricharran Samaroo, who were fatally shot during a robbery at their mother’s house.