Guyana News

The Overseer of the Port Mourant Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) yesterday pleaded not guilty to a charge that she assaulted a reporter attached to Inews, the Guyana Times Newspaper and TVG News.

In a move to ensure safety on the rivers and waterways, the Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) has officially opened a Maritime Safety centre at Bartica.

The Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) is to launch a composting project with a $28m capital outlay that will target 25 tonnes of waste daily from the Stabroek  and Bourda markets and create jobs for 25 persons.

Ex-cop Shawn Neblett, 32,  is one of two men wanted by the police in relation to trafficking in narcotics at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri.

As part of Government’s plan to establish an age requirement for persons who sit on state boards, agencies and commissions, Hamilton Green will not be returned to the Board of Directors of the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA).

Footballer Paul Anthony Daniels, 39, was this morning fatally shot in Callender Street, Albouystown and later pronounced dead.

Town Clerk Royston King yesterday announced that wash bays located in Queenstown will no longer be allowed to function and that proprietors have two weeks within which to cease operations.

Former President Donald Ramotar says that as President of Guyana he authorised and sanctioned the issuance of a lease of Red House to the Cheddi Jagan Research Centre Inc (CJRCI).

Charged in 2015 with driving a minibus recklessly and causing the death of Wilbert Anthony, a man was on Tuesday sentenced to three years in prison for the crime.

Former security guard attached to the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU), Kevin Dickie, who was charged alongside another for cocaine that went missing while in their protection, was on Monday sentenced to 12 months in jail.

Charged eight years ago with buggering a then 30-year-old woman, a man was on Tuesday sentenced to 12 months in prison for the crime.

Former Police constable Donette Jupiter, who was charged last year with stealing a smartphone and other items, had the charge against her dismissed yesterday.

Attorney-at-law Mortimer Codette has died. Stabroek News understands, that the lawyer, who was scheduled to return from the United States sometime today, suddenly fell at his home on Tuesday night and died.

The removal of Justice Cecil Kennard from his post as Chair-man of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) is in keeping with government’s plan to establish an age requirement for persons who sit on state boards, agencies and commissions.

GTT on Tuesday said that the prices for DSL internet service will not change because of the 2017 budget measures but mobile data plans will now attract 14% VAT.

Residents of Owen Street, Kitty, are calling on the relevant authorities to fix their deplorable road, which has been in an “unacceptable” state for more than a decade.

A pensioner was last night discovered dead at his Covent Garden home by his relatives, but there was no clear indication of how he died.

A man and his reputed wife were on Tuesday granted bail after they were charged with being in possession of over six pounds of cannabis, which they claimed belonged to a family member.

The long-awaited State Assets Recovery Bill was read in the National Assembly for the first time on Monday and envisions the use of civil proceedings to recover property belonging to the State.

Officials of the Govern-ment of Guyana were briefed yesterday by ExxonMobil on the “actual development” of the offshore Liza well and the plan to take it towards production by 2020.