Guyana News

Justice Franklyn Holder is expected to rule on Monday on the application made by former Minister of Finance, Dr Ashni Singh and former Head of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), Winston Brassington, to stay the Magistrate’s Court from proceeding with charges of alleged misconduct in public office against them.

Local content is relatively high in the operations of the Canadian-owned Aurora Gold Mines  (AGM) with most of its senior managers, contractors and sub-contractors being Guyanese and the majority of its purchases being local says its senior managers on the Cuyuni River site. 

This weekend’s Guyana Timber Expo will focus on the use of lesser known wood species as well as how best to cut them, the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) said at the launching of the three-day event yesterday afternoon.   

Countrywide community meetings have begun under the consultancy for stakeholder participation on Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) and Readiness Activities in Guyana.

Three hundred and sixty-eight families will benefit from new house lots in November, following the completion of infrastructural developments in the Providence and Peter’s Hall communities on the East Bank of Demerara.

The Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has advised that the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) which began against two men charged with the murder of America Street moneychanger Shawn Nurse, aka “Fabulous”, be discontinued and a joint case be held to accommodate a third suspect charged for the said crime.

CARICOM today condemned the use of force by the Israel Defence Force firing on largely unarmed Palestinians protesting along the Gaza-Israel border.

Jadoo Datt, 40,  is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to a number of Conspiracy to Defraud matters committed on the Government of Guyana between December 2015 and April 2016.

Ravikant Premcharan, the 23-year-old Surinamese policeman who was discovered dead in a vehicle in Paramaribo on Sunday, is suspected to have been killed in an act of revenge after the recent fatal attack on almost two dozen fishers off the coast of Suriname.

Mining camp owner George Arokium yesterday maintained his belief that it was unlikely that the Rondel ‘Fineman’ Rawlins gang killed eight miners, including his brother and son, at Lindo Creek in 2008, due to the level of security in the area at time.

Maurice Fernandes, 55, who was found guilty of fondling a nine-year-old girl, was yesterday sentenced to seven years in jail for the crime.

Maryann Daby, who police say attempted to murder a police constable and had possession of an unlicensed gun and ammunition, was yesterday charged and remanded to prison.

Guyana has asked the World Bank for US$1.7M of a US$20M loan it has accessed to set the foundation for its petroleum industry framework and to also study bringing natural gas onshore when oil production begins in 2020. 

A West Ruimveldt contractor was yesterday remanded to prison for allegedly having a firearm and ammunition without a licence.

Petronella Hinds, the Guyanese woman who was found dead in St.

A 31-year-old mother of five was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with two counts of forgery.

A police rank attached to the Tactical Services Unit (TSU) was yesterday fined a total of $250,000 after pleading guilty to dangerous driving and other traffic offences.

Another Guyanese man  has been charged with cocaine possession and remanded to prison in St George’s, Grenada.

A Mahaicony farmer was yesterday charged with the murder of Haslington, East Coast Demerara (ECD) labourer Seon Waldron, who was discovered floating in the Mahaicony Creek last week.

Four men have been arrested as police continue to probe the murder of fruit vendor Fareez Yassem, who was fatally stabbed during an apparent robbery at his Mahaica home on Monday.