Guyana News

The families of some of the 16 Guyanese fishermen missing after pirate attacks off the coast of neighbouring Suriname remained desperate for word on their fates yesterday as authorities continued to search for them.

Two men, including a policeman, were killed and another injured following an early morning accident along the Linden-Soesdyke Highway yesterday.

A West La Penitence man was stabbed to death in Prashad Nagar yesterday morning after an alleged attempt by him to steal a bird from another man.

Trade union leaders yesterday called on Guyanese workers to “fight” to preserve hard-won rights and privileges, which they said are being eroded after being enshrined in law a generation ago.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo on Monday expressed shock at a Guyana Defence Force (GDF) recruitment advertisement  which called for male applicants.

“Sign the agreement now! Sign the agreement now!” was the demand that met President David Granger yesterday when he visited the Woolford Avenue headquarters of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) in the first stop of his May Day visit to labour unions.

Three 100-pound gas cylinders, which anti-narcotics agents say were used to transport cannabis, were on Monday tendered as evidence in the trial of Colin Denny and Malika Softleigh, who are charged with drug trafficking.

The Department of the Public Service yesterday found its operations the target of a blistering attack by the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC).

The stalled rehabilitation of Graham Street in Plaisance will soon resume.

A state counsel was present in court on the day that a judgment of $1.7b was handed down by Justice Brassington Reynolds in favour of Toolsie Persaud Limited (TPL) over land at Turkeyen but she was there in relation to another case, according to a statement on Monday from the Attorney General’s Chambers.

A Covent Garden dredge owner was on Monday released on $160,000 bail after he denied stealing half a million dollars in foodstuff in 2016.

More than two months after he was written to by the AFC on matters related to the governing coalition possibly contesting forthcoming local government elections on a single slate, President David Granger has responded.

The police say they are investigating the killing of  Shelton Jordan aka Mickel, 21 years, unemployed of West La Penitence, which occurred about 5.35 this morning at Ganges Street, Prashad Nagar, Georgetown.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) today announced that the West Indies’ Ronsford Beaton has failed an independent assessment over his bowling action and is suspended from bowling in international cricket.

The Police say they are investigating an accident which occurred about 7.30 this morning at Loo Creek, Soesdyke-Linden Highway, which resulted in the deaths of Theon Hope, 24 years, a Police Corporal of Lamaha Park and Quason Anthony, 25 years, of Regent Road, Bourda, Georgetown.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain agreed today to order its overseas territories such as the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands to make secretive company ownership information public by the end of 2020 to try to tackle corruption and tax avoidance.

While making it clear that the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is strongly opposed to the inclusion of a sedition clause in the proposed Cybercrime Bill, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that lapses by the party’s Members of Parliament (MPs) may have allowed the government to include it.

Crime Chief Paul Williams yesterday said he was convinced that they have a strong case against the accused, Davendra Ramdial.

Accounting officers who testify before the National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will soon be required to swear an oath before offering testimony, PAC Chairman Irfaan Ali announced yesterday.

Anthony Carmichael, a DJ who is out on bail on a ganja trafficking charge, yesterday found himself back before a court for the same offence after the recent discovery of 150 pounds of marijuana in an abandoned car on Sheriff St.