Guyana News

Since 2015, the Rights of the Child Commission (RCC) has been able to help more than 400 juvenile offenders access legal aid through funding from United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and assistance from the Guyana Legal Aid Clinic.

Ten young entrepreneurs will have a shot at earning from $500,000 to $1 million in start-up funding for their proposed businesses at the inaugural Youth in Business Summit, which will begin this week, Director of Youth Melissa Carmichael has announced.

Marlon Jordan, the three-year-old boy who was discovered dead in his grandparents’ Sophia house last Wednesday, died as a result of pneumonia, a post-mortem examination has found.

Haniff Bacchus, the 70-year-old Guyanese national who was allegedly caught with a quantity of cocaine hidden in his motorised wheelchair at the Maurice Bishop International Airport in Grenada earlier this month, has since pleaded guilty to possession of the drug and he will be sentenced on Thursday.

Minister of State Joseph Harmon on Thursday visited La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara businessman Naresh Persaud and his family, who were brutalised and robbed in a home invasion.

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure has announced that the pedestrian overpasses located at Providence and Diamond, on the East Bank of Demerara, will be temporarily closed to allow for works necessary before the planned installation of elevators.

Two bandits last Monday intercepted and robbed Dr. Holly Alexander, the wife of former Registrar of the University of Guyana Vincent Alexander, of over half a million dollars in cash as well as other valuables shortly after she visited a city bank.

Guyanese comprise fifty-two percent of ExxonMobil’s local workforce while 227 Guyanese companies serviced its oil and gas operations in 2018.

Some 150 new constables were today added to the Guyana Police Force after completing six months of training, at the Felix Austin Police College, which began on November 20, 2017.

Two suspected bandits were killed yesterday after an attempt to rob a city storeowner.

A 22-year-old man, said to be mentally-ill, was yesterday rescued from a pig pen at back of his father’s North Sophia, Greater Georgetown home, where he was reportedly kept for at least three years.

Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman yesterday said that the award of 600 oil blocks to ExxonMobil’s subsidiary, Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL), in 1999 was legal and the government would not be clawing back any as it was vital to border security that the US company retain control of the entire stretch.

Shenella Hughes, the driver of the car that collided with a bus along the Kuru Kururu Public Road, Soesdyke-Linden Highway, has succumbed.

Reggie Ramsammy, the man held for the fatal stabbing of a fellow fisherman at the Number 65 Village, Corentyne koker on Thursday, has confessed to the crime, according to police.

Alim Ally, the Lusignan Prison inmate who was charged with making calls to 911 and threatening to kill President David Granger, yesterday pleaded guilty to multiple counts of threatening language and to one count of causing public terror.

Corwyn Arthur, the man accused of fatally stabbing Linden taxi driver Claude De Jonge last week, was arrested on Thursday night on the West Coast of Berbice.

The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), with backing from the government, is looking to regulate ground handling operations in the country due to increasing air traffic.

The importance of value-added timber exports was highlighted yesterday afternoon by Minister of Business Dominic Gaskin as the Guyana Timber Expo 2018 opened.

The Cybercrime Bill will be taken back to Cabinet for review, according to Attorney General Basil Williams, who has maintained that the controversial sedition clause in the proposed legislation is needed for Guyana to “protect itself”.

President David Granger on Wednesday said the security sector reform plan that was received from British security expert Lt Col (rtd) Russell Combe in January is presently with Cabinet and he assured that it will be made public once it is presented to the National Assembly.