Guyana News

Opposition-nominated GECOM commissioners today walked out of a meeting of GECOM following controversy over a statement by Commissioner Robeson Benn.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexico put tariffs on American products ranging from steel to pork and bourbon today, retaliating against import duties on metals imposed by President Donald Trump and taking aim at Republican strongholds ahead of U.S.

A Betsy Ground, East Canje, Berbice labourer was found dead yesterday at a camp in New Forest.

Legal proceedings against two naturalised Canadian citizens who were charged with the 2016 murder of a Non Pariel pensioner were terminated after their co-accused accepted liability for the crime, an official of the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) said yesterday.

In a bid to improve the flow of traffic in Region Four, two more roundabouts will be constructed, Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson announced yesterday as the Kitty Roundabout was officially opened.

Amid speculation that his death might have been linked to mercury poisoning, an autopsy has found that Clement Proffitt, a Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) lab technician who passed away last week, died of tuberculosis.

Police in `A’ Division are probing the alleged theft of diesel from SOL Guyana Inc between last Thursday and yesterday.

Almost all of the bus operators on the  West Coast Berbice yesterday parked their buses along the market tarmac located in Bath in protest at the recent hike in fuel prices.

Vindra Siriram was sentenced to 22 years in jail yesterday afternoon for the unlawful killing of his wife Shelly-Ann Persaud, who was found with her head submerged in a half-filled bucket of water.

A mysterious fire reduced a West Ruimveldt family’s home to ashes yesterday afternoon.

The Mae’s Schools, following a meeting with the Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) yesterday, has agreed to offer an apology to the nine-year-old student who was allegedly discriminated against for the Indigenous attire he wore to a recent culture day activity, and to collaborate to host sensitisation sessions.

Almost three weeks have passed since President David Granger said he would convene a meeting with Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo to discuss pressing matters, including the highly talked about rejection of the nominees to the top two judicial posts.

Officials were unaware of the state of the damaged flag that was altered and hoisted at D’Urban Park on Independence eve, Minister of Social Cohesion George Norton has reiterated, while saying that provisions have now been made for replacements in light of the resulting concerns.

Hanuman Singh, the Nonpareil, East Coast Demerara businessman who succumbed in hospital after he lost his home and businesses in a fire last Friday, died as a result of a heart attack.

The attorney for Troy Thomas, whom the state is hoping to extradite to the United States to face a charge for murder, yesterday maintained that as a Guyanese citizen he has a right to remain here.

President David Granger on Sunday said that the old model of confrontation and acrimony between the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) and the government must be abandoned in favour of a co-operative one.

Charged just over a month ago with stealing a half a million dollars in food items, a Covent Garden man was brought before a city magistrate once again to answer to two fraud charges.

A Diamond man was granted his release on a total of $800,000 bail last Friday after he denied eight counts of fraud.

A 24-year-old farmer was yesterday charged with stealing solar panels valued at nearly half a million dollars from Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI).

A 41-year-old father of eight was yesterday remanded to prison for the alleged possession of just over two pounds of ganja.