Guyana News

Although relatives are certain that the badly decomposed body which washed up on the Number 63 Beach, Corentyne, Berbice on Thursday is that of missing fisherman Gavin Outar, the police have taken samples from his older brother, in order to make a positive identification, before the body is released to relatives.

Six persons including three children are now homeless after a fire, believed to be an act of arson, yesterday morning destroyed the Enterprise, East Coast Demerara (ECD) house they were renting.

A Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) agent yesterday testified to searching the properties of two of the drug trafficking accused, following the $550M cocaine bust at Zeelugt, East Bank Essequibo in May last year.

A 32-year-old mechanic was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with two counts of armed robbery, including a $2 million East Coast Demerara (ECD) heist, for which another man was charged on Thursday.

Help is on the horizon for residents of Festival City, North Ruimveldt who are plagued with poor drainage in their community, says Mayor Patricia Chase-Green.

Steve Armstrong, the excavator operator who was charged with having an unlicensed firearm and ammunition, was yesterday sentenced to two years in prison for the charges.

An early morning fire yesterday ripped through a Triumph, East Coast Demerara house which had been home to a woman and her two daughters.

As investigators continue their probe into a recent carjacking, two persons were on Thursday arrested by the police following the discovery of a stolen motorcar at Airy Hall, Essequibo Coast.

A 32-year-old man was yesterday remanded to prison for allegedly having in his possession an unlicenced firearm.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) is appealing to residents and the business sector to join the council in its pre-independence clean-up campaign, which starts on May 20, 2018.

The application filed by former Deputy Solicitor General Prithima Kissoon challenging her dismissal was yesterday thrown out by Chief Justice (ag) Roxane George, SC who cited concurrent proceedings for identical reliefs before the Public Service Appellate Tribunal, as one of the grounds.

A man was yesterday sentenced to six months in prison for assaulting his wife.

A $40M contract for the review of an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of Esso Exploration and Petroleum Guyana Limited (EEPGL)’s Liza Phase 2 development project was noted by Cabinet at its meeting on Tuesday, Minister of State Joseph Harmon announced yesterday.

A 43-year-old mother of four was yesterday remanded to prison on a ganja trafficking charge.

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) today restored the 2013 acquittals of James Hyles and Mark Royden Williams for their alleged involvement in the ‘Lusignan Massacre’ of 2008, despite substantial procedural errors at trial.

A badly decomposed body suspected to be that of a missing fisherman from the April 27th piracy attack, yesterday washed up on the Number 63 Beach, Corentyne, Berbice.

A Linden taxi driver was fatally stabbed yesterday morning after he was attacked by his reputed wife’s former partner.

Following a request by the Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM), a team from the United Nation is here evaluating what electoral assistance may be needed for the Local Government Elections due by the end of this year and the 2020 General Elections.

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) yesterday overturned a ruling by the Guyana Court of Appeal, ending a decades-long land dispute between two Essequiban brothers, when it ruled that adverse possession of the land by one, trumped any titled interest of the other.

Thirty-five-year-old Vindra Siriram Persaud now faces sentencing for the unlawful killing of his wife, Shelly-Ann Persaud, who was found with her head submerged in a half-filled bucket of water.