Guyana News

Minister of Finance Winston Jordan has applied to the National Assembly for more than $2.52 billion in additional spending for the 2018 fiscal year.

Two prisoners, including a convicted murder, were yesterday charged with obtaining money by impersonating First Lady Sandra Granger.

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has recommended that an inquest be held into the March 15th fatal shooting of three men, who police said were robbery suspects, along the Kingston seawall, in Georgetown.

A Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice man is now in custody after being accused of sexually assaulting nine West Coast Berbice primary-level students.

A robbery suspect lost a leg on Thursday night when the motorcycle that he and another suspect were riding crashed at Vryheid’s Lust, on the East Coast of Demerara.

Although Guyana has moved up from 60 to 55 in the latest Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index (RSF), signaling that press freedom in the country has improved, the Guyana Press Association (GPA) says there are still “significant hurdles to be crossed before Guyanese can feel that an improved ranking really matters.”

Charging that minimal progress has been made despite high-level talks, the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) yesterday urged the government to include sweeper/cleaners on the fixed pensionable establishment at a rate equal in the first instance to the minimum wage.

Davendra Ramdial, the man accused of the murder of missing Prospect resident Shawnette Savory, was charged based on legal advice given to the police following a reported confession, according to Crime Chief Paul Williams.

Hess Guyana Exploration Limited is acquiring a 15 percent interest in the Kaieteur block, offshore Guyana.

Local transparency group Transparency Institute Guyana Inc (TIGI) has criticised the award of the 26,800 sq km block to ExxonMobil’s local subsidiary and its partners under a single licence, arguing that it was a breach of the regulations and has done material harm to the country.

Government has proposed to harmonise the tenures of city and town councillors with those of neighbourhood councillors and the dates for their elections as part of a series of amendments to the local government laws.

A move by the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) to pay pensions through the bank, in a bid to improve security and its financial systems, resulted in a protest by the pensioners yesterday.

ExxonMobil has announced that the Sorubim-1 well in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana is dry.

Firefighters and public-spirited citizens yesterday averted a potentially major fire that threatened three stores on King Street, Georgetown, yesterday afternoon.

Marlon Callender, the former guard who is on trial for the fatal shooting of fisherman Envil Pollard at the Pritipaul Singh Investments wharf, did not have any training in the use of firearms, according to the records of the Guyana Police Force.

After a two-year long trial, a Jamaican national was yesterday found guilty of forgery and overstaying, for which he was sentenced to 18 months in jail.

A homeless man was yesterday remanded to prison by a city court after he was charged with breaking into the State Assets Recovery Agency (SARA) and stealing almost $300,000 in electronics.

A vendor was yesterday remanded to prison on a charge that he stole gold chains valued at $1.8 million in an armed robbery attack.

Sunil Mangra, the 23-year-old Uitvlugt Estate labourer whose body was discovered at the Stewartville seashore, West Coast Demerara (WCD) on Monday morning, died from drowning and as a result of blunt trauma to his head.

House of Relatives Entertainment is inviting up and coming singers from Georgetown, Linden, Bartica and Berbice, to take part in its REMS Music Talent Search competition, for an opportunity to win cash and record their music.