Guyana News

Vice-Chancellor of the University of Guyana (UG) Professor Ivelaw Griffith has signed a memorandum of understanding with Professor David Phoenix Vice-Chancellor of London South Bank University (LSBU) to allow for collaboration between the two universities in research and teaching-learning enhancement.

A Chinese national was on Monday charged with defrauding an immigration officer and forging a Guyana business visa and departure stamp in his passport.

Lawyers for fallen former New York State Senator John Sampson, who was convicted with the help of US-based Guyanese businessman Ed Ahmad, are appealing the recent five-year sentence handed down against him last month, the New York Post has reported.

According to a caution statement admitted into evidence, murder accused Steffon Campbell told police that he did not shoot anyone and was unaware that anyone would have been shot during a fatal robbery at the Cornbread Mini Mart in 2012.

Magistrate Leron Daly is to rule on February 17 on a no-case submission made by the attorney for Ron Cole, the driver accused of causing the death of traffic policeman Nakosi ‘Kelvin’ La Fleur on the East Bank Demerara public road last year.

The prosecution was yesterday ordered to produce witnesses or close its case in the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the charge against Reagus Lamazon and Samuel McIntyre, the men implicated in the murder of Laing Avenue taxi driver Orin David.

A man, charged with being in possession of several rounds of ammunition, is claiming that he is being set up by a former in-law.

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Leader of the Alliance for Change Raphael Trotman said last Friday that he could not have served on the party’s Management Committee as he was never nominated or elected to do so.

A Lindener was remanded to prison by a city magistrate on Friday, after he denied having in his possession over 100 grammes of cannabis, while in the interior.

Three masked bandits on Monday morning entered the home of Davinden Reddi of Hampshire Village, Corentyne and robbed him of approximately $15,000 in cash and one gold chain worth $100,000, Commander of B Division, Ian Amsterdam told Stabroek News yesterday.

  Phillip H Mozart Thomas is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to fraud which occurred between 2016-02-04 and 2016-05-20.

“I was misled,” was a teen’s cry yesterday after he admitted to a city magistrate that he robbed a man of almost $200,000 in items.

A Guyanese man who lives in Georgia, USA has been sentenced to five years in federal prison after pleading guilty to smuggling dozens of guns to Guyana.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) is moving to implement an aquifer-based system in Port Kaituma, Region One.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Jamaica Scorpions were lifted by John Campbell’s strong all-round performance as they took their biggest stride yet towards the semi-finals of the Regional Super50, with a 20-run win over Guyana Jaguars here Tuesday night.

Phillip. H. Mozart Thomas is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to fraud which occurred between 2016-02-04 and 2016-05-20.

The Alliance for Change, one of the two partners in the governing coalition, today called for the city to suspend the controversial parking meters project and to seek an independent review of the much criticised contract with Smart City Solutions.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Two Republican senators proposed steps to slash the number of legal immigrants admitted into the United States by half on Tuesday, but the legislation, developed with the Trump administration, faces an uphill climb to get through Congress.

Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan has said that it is unfair for the Private Sector Commission (PSC) to accuse central government or the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) of not engaging or consulting the business community on metered parking in the city in light of efforts to do so.