Guyana News

‘Twas the week before Christmas, and Regent Street in Georgetown was buzzing with festive excitement yesterday.

The Diamond water well on the East Bank of Demerara, currently in its final stage of completion, has attracted  satisfaction from Guyana Water Inc (GWI) Chief Executive Shaik Baksh.

Global Affairs Canada today issued the following statement: “Canada has been closely monitoring recent developments following the consultative referendum on the Essequibo region that took place in Venezuela on December 3, 2023, and has been deeply concerned by growing tensions in the territorial dispute between Venezuela and Guyana.

The persons who will form the joint commission to be established under the Declaration of Argyle for Dialogue and Peace between Guyana and Venezuela are in the process of being selected, as Takuba Lodge hailed Thursday’s meeting in St Vincent and the Grenadines as “mutually beneficial.”

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) yesterday upheld the validity of the will of Yusuf Mongroo, the owner of Horseshoe Racing Service and overturned a unanimous decision by the Guyana Court of Appeal.

Sadesh Appadu who had been on the run from the police following the murder of his wife was pronounced dead at the Port Mourant Hospital yesterday.

A Corentyne businessman died yesterday morning along the Jackson Creek Public Road, Upper Corentyne after he lost control of the vehicle he was test driving and ended up in a nearby trench.

Police are investigating the accident that claimed the lives of two men on the Diamond Access Road, East Bank Demerara on Thursday night.

Journalist, Travis Chase, through his attorney-at-law, Nigel Hughes, has written to the Commissioner of Police, Clifton Hicken requesting an apology for allowing video recordings of Chase’s consultation with his lawyer, when he (Chase) visited the police to hand over his weapon for testing as was requested and also for those recordings to be deleted in their presence.

A 44-year-old female patient from the Essequibo Coast, Region 2 recently underwent a life-saving operation at the GPHC where a massive intra-abdominal tumour was removed from her.

President Irfaan Ali joined hundreds of Guyanese to bid farewell to four of the five fallen heroes who died in last week’s helicopter crash.

Senior Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh yesterday met with the Senior Vice President of the Export-Import (EXIM) Bank of the United States,  David Sena, at the Ministry of Finance.

It has been ten days since Strathspey Primary pupil, Mark Harrypaul, was cremated, and his still-grieving father is seeking justice for his son who died at the Georgetown Public Hospital three weeks ago following an incident in the school’s compound.

Twenty-seven-year-old Michael Jacobis of Lot 175 Bartica, Region Seven, appeared before Magistrate Rhondel Weever at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday where he was charged with possession of a firearm without a licence.

P&P Insurance Brokers Limited yesterday made its annual Christmas donations to 10 organisations.

The police in Berbice are investigating the circumstances around the shooting of a businesswoman at her Tain supermarket on Thursday afternoon.

Forty-year-old Samuel Duncan of Lot 23 D’Urban Backlands yesterday appeared before Magistrate Rhondel Weever at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court where he charged with assault of a minor causing grievous bodily harm on December 4 2023.

Police are investigating a fatal accident which occurred at about 08:10 hrs this morning on the  Jackson Creek public road, in Corentyne, Berbice, which resulted in the death of Sahid Hamid, a 38-year-old businessman.

Police are investigating a fatal accident which occurred at around 23:20 hrs last night on the Diamond Access Road, East Bank Demerara, which claimed the lives of two persons, motorcyclist Ashton Mc Curdy and his pillion rider Mark Green.

-Joint Commission to be set up, any controversies to be resolved under international law Guyana and Venezuela yesterday agreed not to use force against each other in any circumstance, a key development for Georgetown in the light of months of tension over Caracas’ staging of a referendum on Essequibo and its subsequent decision to annexe the county which makes up five-eights of this country.