Guyana News

Haiti continues with its painful co-existence with violent armed gangs while politicians there continue their efforts to bring and end to this crisis.

Amid rising tensions  over Venezuela’s planned referendum on December 3rd, Commander for Regional Police Division #1, Senior Superintendent Himnauth Sawh and Regional Chairman  Brentnol Ashley, along with a team of Police and Regional officials, held an Outreach in Yarakita Village, North West District on Saturday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said yesterday that the Caricom region must remain a zone of peace, even as he acknowledged the possibility that T&T’s negotiations to access Venezuela’s natural gas in the Dragon field could be jeopardised by that country’s territorial claim on the Essequibo region in Guyana.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday said that Guyana is a great business-oriented environment for European countries to invest in and capitalize on opportunities, in the wake of the country’s rapid economic development over the past year.

“My job is to now find a solution to this and to find a way so that you live, they live and we all live,” were the words uttered by City Mayor, Alfred Mentore to vendors yesterday who had been plying their trade in front of Muneshwer’s shopping complex but have been ordered removed by the court.

The EU/Guyana Chamber of Commerce was launched last evening with businessman, Gregory Dean as its head.

A Clifton Settlement, Corentyne construction worker was fatally stabbed on Sunday evening following an argument at a shop while attempting to purchase something to drink.

A Mibicuri South, Black Bush Polder family is now mourning the loss of their loved one after she reportedly  crashed into a parked trailer while returning home on her motorcycle on Saturday evening.

President Irfaan Ali says his government is doing its best to alleviate the burden imposed on citizens countrywide due to escalating food prices, when questioned yesterday on the sidelines of the European Union Trade Mission, at the Guyana Marriott Hotel.

Jahiem Peters, the seventeen-year-old who in July of last year, had accused police at the Vigilance Station of torturing him while in their custody, has filed a $150 million lawsuit against the State, for the “permanent partial disability” and other injuries he said he has suffered.

While restating its support for a unified national position on the border controversy, the Alliance For Change (AFC) has said again that Venezuelan migrants should not be allowed to enter the country without a visa.

Rameshwar Persaud, a 27-year-old truck driver from Farm Track, Madewini, was charged yesterday with causing death by dangerous driving.

Digicel has launched its Christmas promotion, titled “D’Bess Christmas” and says a total of $50m can be won.

A post-mortem examination performed on Nirvana Algu, 45, has ruled that her death was due to immolation.

The police in Region Five have arrested and are  questioning two persons on the brutal murder of the 48-year-old West Coast Berbice (WCB) woman who was found dead on Sunday after hanging out at a bar with some friends.

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on Friday called for the establishment of a Venezuela Border Task Force in light of what it says will likely be permanent aggression from Caracas over its claim to Essequibo.

Mark Allen, a 31-year-old security guard of Friendship, East Coast Demerara was charged last Friday with robbery with violence and unlawful wounding.

Rajendra Khelawan, 30, a customer of GBTI’s Providence branch on Sunday won a 2022 Toyota Raize in the bank’s Dream Big Housing promotion.

Sheldon Parker, a 49-year-old miner of West La Penitence Housing Scheme, Georgetown, was charged yesterday with possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.

Four persons who the police described as vagrants were refused bail and remanded to prison after they were charged with larceny.