Guyana News

Bandits on Sunday night shot a wash bay operator during a robbery at Broad and Lombard streets, Charlestown, Georgetown but the shooter did not get far due to a quick response by police after the attack.

Minister of Social Protection, Amna Ally is said to be in good spirits and resting comfortably at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation where she sought medical attention yesterday after complaining of feeling unwell.

The teen daughter of Sunil Ramsundar, who claims to have witnessed the altercation that preceded a fatal attack on him on Boxing Day of 2014, yesterday testified that she made a number of mistakes in her witness statement.

The New Amsterdam Hospital emergency unit is in dire need of overhauling, according to patients and relatives who are accessing the hospital on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.

A labourer was yesterday remanded to prison over a post he allegedly made on Facebook, in which he threatened to bomb stores.

Fifteen-year-old Rose Hall champion cyclist, Beyonce Ross who was in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital passed on yesterday after battling a brain tumour.

A mechanic and a constable attached to the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) escaped unhurt after the vehicle they were travelling in caught afire yesterday.

Two men were yesterday fined for a recent theft in Bartica, while their co-accused was granted bail after he pleaded not guilty.

Alert police and prison officials thwarted what appeared to have been a plot to smuggle contraband items, including cannabis and phones, into the Lusignan Prison early yesterday morning.

Additional documentation will have to be sent to the Food Safety Inspection Services (FSIS) of the United States Department of Agriculture as part of Guyana’s bid to resume exportation of catfish, according to Chief Fisheries Officer Denzil Roberts.

The Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs last Wednesday signed a contract for the continued expansion of the Indigenous Residence in Georgetown.

Charged early last month with two counts of embezzlement, a former DeSinco Trading Company Limited clerk was hauled before a city court once again last Friday to answer to 12 additional charges.

A  man was yesterday granted his release on $100,000 bail after he denied stealing a tool kit.

The US Southern Command will conduct Exercise New Horizon 2019 in Guyana.

Edinburgh, East Bank Berbice residents will soon receive treated tap water as the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) works to improve the water quality in Region Six.

The police appear to have intercepted a plan to smuggle illicit items into the Lusignan Prison, a perennial problem in the prisons system.

Wash bay operator Leroy Robinson, 38, of 17 Broad and Lombard streets, Charlestown was shot yesterday during a robbery at his premises.

Oil and gas support company, Ramps Logistics says it is committed to Guyana’s local content development which has already shown rewards with 100 persons working offshore.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was recently inked between NF Agriculture Inc and investors of Lucas do Rio Verde which will see the commencement of an Agricultural Village in Guyana’s Intermediate Savannah, a release from the Ministry of Agriculture yesterday said.

After being hospitalised for two weeks in an unconscious state, convicted prisoner Shawn Thom yesterday succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital, Deputy Director of Prisons, Kevin Pilgrim confirmed.