Guyana News

The Guyana-Suriname Co-operation Council is to be resuscitated following a lightning visit here yesterday by Paramaribo’s President Desi Bouterse.

While up to November this year it has recorded a year-to-date deficit of $238.1m, the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) is projecting a return to a surplus position by the end of this year and for this to continue next year.

A Plaisance businessman was yesterday afternoon shot and robbed of $4 million, less than one hour after he and a friend had visited a city bank and were about to enter his Prince William Street, Plaisance, East Coast Demerara house.

With higher tolls for the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) starting in January, Minister within the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI), Annette Ferguson says the facility is expected to rake in an additional $300M by the end of 2017.

One of the two suspects who were captured on Wednesday following the robbery of Tower Suites employees has admitted to having committed four other robberies.

An Essequibo Coast resident was killed on Thursday night, when a drunk driver crashed into the back of his motorcycle on the Hampton Court Public Road.

Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan has asked for an explanation from the Guyana Police Force in relation to the complaint lodged by a Berbice River resident that police ranks occupied his home without his consent.

In light of the recent robbing and stabbing of a City Constabulary guard at the Merriman Mall Play Park, Chief Constable Andrew Foo in a comment, emphasized the dangers that criminal elements pose to not only regular citizenry, but to those designated to protect as well.

Police on the Essequibo Coast will be seeking advice from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions on how to proceed in the case of Ganga Persaud, the tractor operator who was allegedly involved in an accident at Lima Sands that claimed the life of five-year-old Orissa Williams last Sunday.

For the fifth time, a Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara (EBD) resident is counting his losses after a speeding car slammed into his fence resulting in severe damage.

Minister within the Ministry of Public Infrastructure Annette Ferguson, who is one of the ministers of the APNU+AFC government awarded with a fully funded government scholarship, says she applied like a normal person would have done. 

Two cocaine traffickers were on Thursday night and yesterday afternoon busted by agents of the Customs Anti Narcotic Unit at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri as they attempted to smuggle cocaine to Bermuda and the United States.

A ‘Swift Cabs’ taxi driver was up to last evening in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital after being stabbed, reportedly by another taxi driver from a different service during a dispute over a broken car mirror.

Tomorrow, the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) will welcome to Guyana, a six- member Chinese military delegation headed by Senior Colonel Lu Zhongling.

The court yesterday found that a prima facie case has been made out against Calvin Bailey in the matter of him wounding prison inmate Dwayne King at the Camp Street Prison.

A Lodge resident was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with armed robbery.

The National Assembly on Thursday approved a $5.05 billion budget for Region Three, Essequibo Islands West Demerara, including $30 million for the construction and equipping of a special needs school at Schnoonord.

In a long awaited decision, the outgoing UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has decided that the Good Offices process to find a solution to the decades-old border controversy between Guyana and Venezuela will be given one more year and if by the end of 2017 “significant progress” has not been made, the case will move to the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Cabinet accepted the advice of an inquiry into matters pertaining to the broadcasting authority that its Chairman Leonard Craig should be dismissed but Craig resigned today before he was sacked.

Tuesday, December 27th 2016 and Monday, January 2rd 2017 will be public  holidays, Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan confirmed last evening.