Guyana News

The body of a 49-year-old man was discovered yesterday afternoon in a trench in the backlands of Williamsburg, Corentyne.

Former head of the Citizens Security Programme (CSP) Khemraj Rai has been declared ineligible to be awarded and to participate in any Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) financed contract for the next eight years.

Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman yesterday said that gold declarations were at an unprecedented 690,000 ozs for 2016.

Farmlands on the Essequibo Coast continue to be affected by flooding, the result of persistent rain over the weekend and poor drainage as a few sluices and pumps are not in operation.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has hired Elisabeth Harper, the  People’s Progressive Party/Civic’s Prime Ministerial candidate for the 2015 elections to utilize her skills in relations to sovereignty matters.

A 43-year-old man was yesterday charged before a city magistrate with the murder of an unidentified man who went by the alias ‘Dougla’.

The senior citizen who was allegedly assaulted by members of the Guyana Police Force on Tuesday when they tried to take her to the police station after they showed up seeking her grandson, says she has not been offered an apology or compensation and will seek legal redress.

Two drivers were yesterday granted bail after they were accused of chopping a man they alleged was attempting to rob them.

The badly decomposed body of a 65-year-old man was discovered in his home at Lot 40 Paul Stewart Housing Scheme, New Amsterdam, Berbice.

Superintendent of Police Trevor Reid, on Wednesday said, that while former Lusignan massacre co-accused Dwane Williams, was once arrested in relation to the massacre of 12 persons at Bartica in 2008, he was never charged.

The teen who was involved in the accident at the Alpha Children’s Home on Saturday last was charged with manslaughter at the Reliance Magistrate Court yesterday.

A city magistrate granted $300,000 bail each to two men after they were charged separately with forging Republic Bank Limited cheques, when they appeared before the court yesterday.

The administrative arm of the Mayor and City Council needs to be more proactive and committed in the delivery of service to the public for the New Year, Mayor Patricia Chase-Green said on Wednesday, while informing Town Clerk Royston King that he needs to be sterner with officers.

The breach at Kairuni on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway that occurred over the weekend has been fixed, and the Regional Chairman Renis Morian is calling on the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) to put systems in place to prevent large trucks from driving over the curb walls along the highway.

Regional Democratic Councillor (RDC), Mohammed Naeem Gafoor speaking with the Government Information Agency (GINA), says that road works in the community are progressing rapidly.

The Georgetown International Academy (GIA) Key Club yesterday handed over $11,520,250 and a quantity of Juviton Syrup to the Giving Hope Foundation.

Barbers and cosmetolgists who are practising within the environs of the market areas and open spaces in the city would not be allowed to continue to do so, unless they are registered with the Mayor and City Council, Georgetown’s Mayor Patrica Chase-Green has warned.

President David Granger today ordered that the lease of Red House to the Cheddi Jagan Research Centre Incorporated be revoked.

Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo today called for the urgent restarting of the Amaila Falls Hydropower project and he accused the government of misrepresenting the Norconsult report which was intended to be a facts-based assessment of the project to guide Guyana and Norway.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States expelled 35 Russian diplomats and closed two Russian compounds in New York and Maryland in response to a campaign of harassment against American diplomats in Moscow, a senior U.S.