Guyana News

Government is currently considering a proposal to pay miners less than the world market price for gold, prompting a warning from the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) and the Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO), which say the move would do more harm to the mining industry.

The Guyana Fire Service (GFS) in collaboration with the Ministries of Public Security and Public Health yesterday launched its National Emergency Medical Services (EMS) at Project Dawn, Liliendaal.

After interrogation, police say two suspects yesterday confessed to murdering the carpenter who was found dead on the Number 70 Public Road just over two weeks ago.

Colette Parks, the woman who allegedly rented the getaway vehicle used by the men who robbed the home of People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary Clement Rohee, was yesterday charged with two counts of armed robbery and remanded to prison.

Clairmont Reid, the Vryheid’s Lust man charged with underreporting the currency he had on him when he returned to the country in June, yesterday changed his plea to guilty and was fined $250,000 and ordered to forfeit over $2 million.

Queen’s College students yesterday protested the proposed construction of a canteen in an area on the school’s grounds presently used for Agricultural Science.

A woman was yesterday remanded to prison after she was charged trafficking an underage youth for sex work.

The street on which the Chinese Embassy is located is to be named “Fuzhou Road” by the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown, in honour of the city’s relationship with the Chinese city of Fuzhou.

A woman is now nursing a gunshot wound to her jaw after she was accidentally shot by her husband while he was cleaning his gun.

Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan yesterday ruled that a statement made to police by Darrol Compton, one of the two men accused of murdering Babita Sarjou, was given voluntarily.

A William Street, Kitty resident was yesterday granted $70,000 bail after denying that he pulled a gun on his ex-girlfriend.

Guyana has agreed to issue a plan early next year detailing its clean energy transition including a “facts-based consideration of the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP) and all other possible renewable energy options”.

One day after failing to attend a meeting with the Ministers of Social Protection on Wednesday, the Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc.

  Cabinet has approved a request by the Ministry of Public Telecommunications to enter into an agreement with the Huawei Technologies Company of China to conduct a feasibility study for a countrywide internet connection project.

The trial of Devindra Rooplall, who is accused of bludgeoning his drinking partner to death over a gambling row, continued yesterday before Justice Jo-Ann Barlow and a 12-member jury at the High Court in Georgetown.

Following countrywide consultations, the Ministry of Social Cohesion says safety and security, economic equity and harmonious ethnic relations have emerged as the major preoccupations of the public and therefore the issues most likely to hamper social cohesion.

A man was remanded to prison yesterday after a court heard that he was caught on camera breaking into a businesswoman’s car and stealing over half a million dollars in items.

MERIAN MINE, Suriname,  (Reuters) – Suriname President Desi Bouterse and Newmont Mining Corp Chief Executive Gary Goldberg inaugurated the open-pit Merian gold mine on Thursday, which is expected to give a boost to the small, economically struggling South American country.

Based on intensive intelligence gathering, yesterday ranks of the Guyana Police Force conducted a search on a taxi driver of Tuschen, EBE, and his motor vehicle at the Brickdam Police Station.

The female suspect who was arrested in connection with the robbery under arms committed at the home of  Clement Rohee, MP on 2016-11-09, was today charged with two counts of robbery under arms.