Guyana News

Dwayne Williams, a 44-year-old driver at the NIS, and of Kuru Kururu, Soesdyke/Linden Highway, was charged on Friday last with ‘Causing Death by Dangerous Driving’.

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) predicts minimal economic growth in the region for 2024, except for Guyana where it projects more than 25%, fuelled mostly by revenue from the oil and gas sector.

By Antonio Dey Operations and Sales Manager of Kestrel Guyana Inc Samantha Buchoon said that the United Kingdom’s three-day trade mission in Guyana presented opportunities for the freight and shipping company to network with new international and local trade partners like the British Chamber of Commerce Guyana.

The $10 million fraud charge that was instituted against retired and serving senior police officers in May 2021 was yesterday dismissed by Magistrate Rhondel Weever for lack of evidence, according to one of the defence lawyers.

The aunt and her two nieces who perished in the early Christmas morning fire at a home in Central Amelia’s Ward, Linden, Region Ten, died from smoke inhalation, Regional Commander of Division 10 Superintendent Guy Nurse stated yesterday.

By Antonio Dey Acting Town Clerk of Linden Lennox Gasper said that the town council didn’t follow the correct procedures concerning the submission of applications for the position of town clerk, which is currently “contentious”.

It has been roughly three months since the death of two-year-old Raheem Fung and his frustrated mother Rhonda Kortright-Fung said the police are continuing to give her the royal run-around.

Police are investigating a fatal accident involving two motorcyclists on Tuesday around 22:00 on the Maria’s Pleasure public road, Wakenaam Island, Region Three that resulted in the death of one motorcyclist and the other being admitted to the West Demerara Regional [WDR] Hospital.

Pooran Manman, called Rocky, a 44-year-old businessman of Abram Zuil, Essequibo Coast was on Tuesday night arrested after he was found having in his possession an unlicensed firearm, along with several rounds of ammunitions.

Two Corentyne men were yesterday remanded to prison after they were read a charge of murder in the case of a man who was found buried in a shallow grave in the backlands of Crabwood Creek, Upper Corentyne.

With declared production of 88,000 ounces last year which fetched an estimated US$158.4 million,  the Chinese-owned Zijin Mining, formerly Aurora Gold Mines, is up to date in paying its royalties, Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat says.

Shazad Mohamed, the 60-year-old pedestrian who was struck down and killed on Christmas Eve on Temple Street, Windsor Forest, West Coast Demerara died as a result of  multiple crush injuries, according to the post mortem examination conducted yesterday morning by Government Pathologist Dr.

Two brothers had a murder charge against them dismissed when they appeared before Magistrate Crystal Lambert recently at the Bartica Magistrate’s Court.

Muammar Jabbar, called ‘Omar Jabbar’, who is wanted for questioning into the Christmas Eve morning shooting death of a Diamond man is still at large, the Guyana Police Force [GPF] said yesterday.

Two police ranks, who on Sunday were responding to a report of an alleged wounding in Regional Division #7, discovered one 12- gauge shotgun along with eight matching cartridges in a salt bag.

Travis Persaud, a 31-year-old labourer of Anna Regina, Essequibo Coast, pleaded guilty to the charge of malicious damage to property and was sentenced to thirty (30) months imprisonment.

US Ambassador Theriot met with Mahendra Phagwah, a community leader and alumnus of the U.S.

Phillips Adams, 47, a resident of Middle Street, Poudereyen, was on Tuesday admitted to the West Demerara Regional Hospital nursing gunshot wounds after he was allegedly shot by an off duty police rank using a Guyana Police Force issued firearm.

Over 15,000 jobs in the BPO sector are expected to be created in Region Five with the construction of two call-centres.

More than ten months after the government announced preparations for the construction of the Enmore Regional Hospital, works are reportedly “advancing.”