Guyana News

Auditor General Deodat Sharma has set a September deadline to complete his investigation of the controversial billion-dollar D’Urban Park Development Project.

The Bar Association of Guyana on Tuesday launched the 2017-2018 edition of its law journal, ‘The Bar Association Review’ (BAR) at the Cara Lodge Hotel.

The People’s Progressive Party today expressed concern at what it said was the untimely deaths of four Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) staffers – Dwayne De Jonge (ranger),  Latchman Chiti (surveyor), Leroy Green (carpenter) and Clement Proffit (lab technician).  

Still grappling with the fallout from a $941m fraud case that is before the courts, the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry  (GBTI) has reported a 25% decline in profit for 2017 in a year which also saw a decline in interest income.

Deonarine Bhihari, who is accused of murdering an Enmore man some 18 years ago was today charged with the offence.

An intelligence led operation by the Law Enforcement and Investigation Division (LEID) of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) resulted in a large quantity of uncustomed alcohol being seized at a location on the East Coast Demerara on Tuesday May, 29, 2018.

Attorney-at-law Kamal Ramkarran was yesterday re-elected as President of the Guyana Bar Association (GBA), which also passed a motion to support the confirmation of acting Chancellor of the Judiciary Yonette Cummings-Edwards and acting Chief Justice (CJ) Roxane George-Wiltshire SC.

The Education and Social Cohesion ministries have launched a joint probe into the alleged discrimination against a Mae’s Schools pupil over his indigenous wear, even as the school faced another protest yesterday calling for it to apologise.

Shawn Harris, the Kitty man who is charged with murdering a vagrant last year, was yesterday committed to stand trial for the crime.

Guyanese Calypso icon The Mighty Rebel, known for bold and unapologetic political commentary which challenged the state of affairs, died yesterday after a period of illness.

Masked bandits early yesterday morning invaded an Eccles, East Bank Demerara, home, where they attacked a family and carted off valuables amounting to over $1.5 million.

Dwayne Gonsalves, the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) employee who was charged last November with causing the death of biker Ronaldo Jaundoo, following a collision at James and Barr streets, Albouystown, was yesterday freed after a city court found that the police failed to prove the case against him.

Relatives of patients at the Skeldon Public Hospital, Corentyne and a clerk there yesterday morning clashed over alleged preferential treatment at the medication desk and the police had to be called in.

A man was robbed of over $1.5 million in cash and other valuables by two armed bandits early yesterday afternoon at his D’Urban Street home.

A man is feared dead after he fell off a jet boat at the Bartica Stelling on Wednesday afternoon.

Weeks after the attorney for army Captain Orwain Sandy requested to have an independent psychiatric evaluation for his client, who is charged with murdering his common-law wife Reona Payne, he told a court yesterday that they are prepared to proceed with the case.

The Bar Council of the Guyana Bar Association has welcomed the ruling by acting Chief Justice Roxane George to compel Attorney General Basil Williams to bring the long-delayed Judicial Review Act (JRA) into force by the end of July.

A Region Five APNU+AFC councillor was on Wednesday found guilty of a wounding charge at the Fort Wellington Magistrate’s Court.

The attorney for accused Andre Gomes yesterday maintained that his client is innocent of the cocaine trafficking charges he is currently facing as he presented his final submissions to Georgetown Magistrate Leron Daly.

In a second day of protest, bus operators from the East Coast of Demerara flocked the Lusignan Market tarmac yesterday to voice their frustration with the increased fuel prices.