Guyana News

GTT today announced that work is well underway to apply the latest generation of networking technologies and equipment to its broadband network.

Former attorney general Anil Nandlall was yesterday questioned by Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) investigators about law books the PPP/C government reportedly purchased for him while he held office and he said that it was his public criticisms of his successor Basil Williams SC that made him a target of the agency.

As the APNU+AFC government looks to make the sugar sector more competitive in light of local and global challenges, Presi-dent David Granger met with executives of United Kingdom (UK)-based sugar and ethanol trading, advisory and supply chain management firm, Czarnikow.

Elections officer for the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) Herman DeSouza has called the postponement of the union’s elections a major setback.

Shameer Ali was yesterday morning sentenced to 13 years behind bars for the 2013 stabbing death of his common-law wife Shaneza Ramdat, called ‘Reshma.’

An off-duty NYPD officer is accused of driving drunk and causing a crash on Sunday that left two sisters in critical condition and another passenger injured, CBS News reported yesterday.

Mayor Patricia Chase-Green yesterday recused herself from serving as a member of the new City Council negotiating team that will work to iron out issues with Smart City Solutions (SCS) on the metered parking project.

A Bagotville, West Bank Demerara (WBD) motorcyclist died on Sunday morning following a collision with a car on the Nismes Public Road, West Bank Demerara.

After allegedly being abandoned by their mother at the scene of a cocaine bust, a brother and sister were yesterday brought before a city magistrate to answer a drug trafficking charge.

A man was yesterday sentenced to 56 months in jail for robbing an American citizen in a knife-point attack.

“Temptation took me,” was the excuse given by welder Lalchand Wilson, prior to him being sentenced to 24 months in jail yesterday for stealing his aunt’s savings.

An 18-year-old prisoner, Kishan Jeriwan, was rush-ed to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital on Satur-day, after he sustained several stab wounds in a fight with a fellow inmate.

A Barama resident was yesterday charged with the death of a man, whose body was found in a shallow grave at Karrau Backdam, Mazaruni, on Easter Monday.

Residents of Backstreet, Charity, Essequibo Coast were last night forced to spend the night in over one and a half feet of floodwaters after construction being done on a koker in the area caused a breach in a main dam; the wooden koker is being replaced with a concrete structure.

A Bartica resident was yesterday remanded to prison by Chief Magistrate Ann Mc Lennon after being charged with trafficking of narcotics.

Beverley Persaud, who allegedly masterminded the 2015 murder of her block maker husband, was yesterday committed to stand trial.

Learning of an executive meeting at the Alliance for Change (AFC) Headquarters in Kitty, the Movement against VAT on Education gathered less than a dozen persons and picketed yesterday afternoon.

A teacher and farmer were on Friday last charged with trafficking in narcotics at the Wales Magistrate’s Court and remanded to prison.

A Bartica resident was yesterday remanded to prison by Chief Magistrate Ann Mc Lennon after being charged with trafficking of narcotics.

Police in ‘F’ Division have arrested a Brazilian miner who was found at Black Water Backdam, Konawaruk, Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni) with an unlicensed shotgun and cartridge on Sunday afternoon.