Guyana News

With a jury unable to arrive at a verdict in the case against him for the alleged rape of a 14-year-old boy, former Ministry of Public Health worker, Esan Abrams, now faces a possible retrial.

First Lady, Sandra Granger yesterday received a cheque for $636,000 from Minister of Education,  Nicolette Henry on behalf of the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Guyana.

The common law wife of Jermaine Langevine, proprietor of White Castle Fish Shop, which was gutted by fire in a suspected arson in April, was yesterday morning charged and granted bail.

Former Head of the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Unit, Motie Dookie who is accused of smuggling 30 cases of whisky in December last year has since returned to duty and was posted to the Police ‘A’ Division where he is presently serving as the No. 2 Sub Divisional Officer.

In the backdrop of a raft of complaints from Guyanese fisherfolk working in Suriname, the opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) will tomorrow inform the National Assembly that it intends to table a motion on the issue.

A taxi driver was arrested yesterday over Monday’s robbery during which $5M was snatched from the proprietor of Deokie Service Station (Rubis), Soesdyke and he has since admitted his involvement in the crime and led investigators to a quantity of the cash.

A labourer was yesterday remanded to prison after he was accused of robbing a man he knows of a car valued at $2.2 million and other items.

Rishawn Pierre, the driver of the car that collided with a  lorry laden with lumber last Tuesday along the Linden-Soesdyke Highway has been charged with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving and placed on a total of $1M bail.

Malika Softleigh and Colin Denny, who were accused of trafficking ganja in three 100-pound gas cylinders, were yesterday freed of the charge after a city magistrate found no evidence against them.

The parents and sister of Rainella Benfield, the teenage girl who was found dead in the Triumph, East Coast Demerara cemetery last December, were yesterday released from police custody after being questioned over the weekend about the case.

With the  aim of improving energy efficiency and regulating the sector, CARICOM is in the process of developing a programme to phase out the use of incandescent bulbs, beginning as early as January 2019.

A South Sophia mother of six was yesterday taken before a city magistrate for allegedly receiving a stolen SIM card.

Journalists are without  media passes for this year according to the Guyana Press Association because it has had no formal response from the Department of Public Information (DPI) to its proposals for the GPA to issue the passes, GPA President Nazima Raghubir said on Monday.

Special attention has been placed on the elimination of breeding sites, in and around the home, as activities have been undertaken by the Vector Control Unit of the Ministry of Public Health for Mosquito Awareness Week 2018.

The new board of the General Nurses Council of Guyana has been encouraged to “breathe new life into the council,” by Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence who welcomed the new body during yesterday’s installation ceremony.

The common law wife of Jermaine Langevine, proprietor of White Castle Fish Shop, which was gutted by fire in April, was this morning charged with arson and granted bail.

Former Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh and former Head of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) Winston Brassington are currently at the headquarters of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) being questioned.

Denying any wrongdoings while they were in office, former Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh and former Head of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) Winston Brassington yesterday charged that they were victims of political victimisation.

The details surrounding the Lindo Creek mining camp massacre, reportedly given by former Fineman gang member Dwane Williams, were presented to the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) investigating the matter, yesterday.

The Alliance For Change and A Partnership for National Unity – the governing coalition partners – on Monday held an ice-breaking meeting and are set to begin substantive talks this weekend that will determine if they will contest local government elections together.