Guyana News

The family of Ravichandra Seemangal, a 46-year-old mechanic of 104 Farm Squatting Area, East Bank Demerara, who died on March 16 following an industrial accident at Pritipaul Singh Investments is calling for the authorities to have the person responsible suspended from work until the investigation is completed.

Former Head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Dr Vincent Adams says that Parliamentary Affairs Minister Gail Teixeira lied about his role here when she appeared yesterday before the UN Human Rights Committee.

Terensha Pierre, a 10-year-old pupil of Hosororo Primary School, North West District, Region One, has succumbed to head injuries sustained in an accident at around 16:00 hrs on Monday.

Netherlands national Vitesh Jamnapersad Guptar, a 59-year-old businessman of Lot 93 Duke Street, Kingston, appeared before Magistrate Faith McGusty at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday where the allegation of conspiracy to traffic drugs internationally was read to him.

Two suspects, both of whom are teenagers, were arrested yesterday by the Police as part of investigations into the robbery with aggravation committed on a 15-year-old girl on March 16th, 2024, at Bel Air, Georgetown, the police said last night.

A West Coast Berbice man was yesterday sentenced to twelve years in prison after he pleaded guilty in the High Court in Berbice to fatally chopping a man he had an ongoing feud with in March 2020.

A Fort Ordinance Housing Scheme, East Canje Berbice man will return to the High Court in Berbice this month for sentencing after a jury found him guilty of stabbing his ex-girlfriend in May 2021.

A Rose Hall Town, Corentyne family of five is now contemplating their next move after a fire suspected to be of electrical origin destroyed their two-bedroom house on Monday evening.

On Sunday last,  Sergeant Hoyte, W/Corporal De Lima, Corporals Fraser and Pellew, along with Constables Boyce, Holder and Simon, conducted a ‘foot patrol’ around the Meadowbank Wharf.

Former manager of the New Building Society (NBS), Maurice Arjoon, who was found to have been wrongfully dismissed, is entitled only to the full payment of pension amounting to some $59 million and not severance benefits as well.

The Ministry of Labour’s Occupational Safety and Health Department is currently investigating an industrial accident that occurred on March 13, 2024, at Pritipaul Singh Investments, located at Wharf Area, Providence, East Bank Demerara.

The police say that are investigating the murder of Marcus Adrian, a 36-year-old logger of Hururu Mission, Upper Berbice River, which occurred on 2024-03-18 at about 12:30hrs at 7 Mile,  Hururu Mission.

Ashanti Liverpool of Dazzell Housing Scheme  was shot and killed early this morning reportedly by her twin sister’s ex boyfriend.

Apart from an award of US$300,000 ($60m) from the United States to combat narcotics trafficking here, the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will begin a capacity-building programme and a FBI team will help with port security.

`We cannot come here with the best ideas, and then forget that we have 700 million people who we represent living in poverty’ President Irfaan Ali has emphasized the importance of addressing global issues such as hunger, malnutrition, and food insecurity.

Guyana found itself in the hot seat yesterday at the United Nations’ 140th Session of the Human Rights Committee in Geneva, Switzerland as a barrage of questions on corruption, human rights and public accountability for state assets were asked including allegations against Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo.

The Chinese Landing Village Council is calling on the government to engage with it on implementing the recommendations of the IACHR on the protection of residents of the north west community and it has also raised the matter of the ban on villagers’ small mining which it says is affecting livelihoods.

HOUSTON (Reuters) -Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods yesterday said his company is trying to establish it has rights over Hess Corp (NYSE:HES)’s Guyana assets in its dispute with Chevron (NYSE:CVX), not buy the company itself.

The Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD) yesterday said that emergency repair works at the Parika and Supenaam Stellings have been completed.

A crash along the Corentyne highway on Sunday evening has left a Number 64 Village, Corentyne pensioner dead and his family demanding answers.