Guyana News

Three Cuban nationals were yesterday separately charged and remanded over fraud and forging United States visas.

Anyone attempting to access the Ministry of Public Infrastructure website last evening was greeted by a message declaring the space owned by Egyptian Hackers, a development which has crystalized a fear expressed by local technological experts that Government’s Cyber security is not up to par.

A brother of the Guyanese fisherman who is still missing and feared dead from the second piracy attack is calling on the authorities in Guyana to launch a search in the Corentyne River, and routes which are closest to Suriname waters for his brother.

Former Minister of Finance, Dr Ashni Singh and former Head of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited, Winston Brassington were yesterday granted a total of $6m bail each after being read three counts of misconduct in public office when they appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s court.

An Anna Catherina man was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with causing the death of Garfield McPherson during a car accident on Sunday.

A 20-year-old miner died  on Monday afternoon after he was pinned down by a rock when the wall of the mining pit he was working in collapsed at Pepper Camp Backdam, Upper Mazaruni River.

On May 2, 2018, following another sting operation on the Atlantic Ocean, Officers of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) intercepted a Motor Vessel containing hundreds of boxes of foreign chicken and mosquito coils.

As the probe into the murder of Rainella Benfield, the teenage girl who was found in the Triumph, East Coast Demerara cemetery last December widens, the police on Saturday arrested three persons including her parents.

Trans Guyana Airways Limited (TGAL) says it has successfully completed the country’s first ever, G1000 Online Remote Caravan Training facilitated by Flight Safety International, Wichita.

Local construction firm, Chung’s Global Enterprise yesterday entered a US$9m bid under the Ministry of Public Infrastructure for its Sea and River Defence; Resilience Project on the Upper Corentyne.

Queen’s College is to undergo repairs to the tune of $11m, according to a press release from the Ministry of Education on Monday.

A mason was yesterday remanded to prison, after he was accused of receiving a car stolen from a taxi driver, who was shot in the head during the robbery.

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) on Monday said that the Consultancy Services for the Design of the East Bank – East Coast Road Linkage Project (Diamond to Ogle) began on April 13, 2018 with the executing agency being RITES Ltd.,

The Ministry of Social Protection’s Department of Occupational Safety and Health in Region Six yesterday shut down a window manufacturing entity located at Number Two Village, East Canje, Berbice for unsafe practices.

A DeSinco Limited clerk was yesterday granted $200,000 bail, after he was read two embezzlement charges, alleging that he stole over $400,000 in cash from the business.

At the trial of Anthony Morrison for the alleged murder of his common-law wife, Donna Thomas, Detective Constable Jason Kyte told the court that the man had admitted to cutting the woman on her hand, but said he did not expect her to die.

A family of six is now homeless after a fire of unknown origin on Monday destroyed wooden house at Cotton Tree Village, West Coast Berbice.

A man was on Monday sentenced to three years in prison at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for the possession of 27 grammes of cannabis.

A welder was on Monday remanded to prison for allegedly snatching a woman’s cellphone.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has resumed a training programme that seeks to boost the professionalism of the Authority’s human resource capacity.