Guyana News

After not being able to repay a loan to the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI), construction company Dipcon Engineering Services Limited  (DESL) has entered into receivership and its assets will be liquidated.

The best friend of murdered businessman Oriley Small took to the witness stand yesterday to deliver testimony in the preliminary inquiry (PI) into the charge against his accused killer Morris Prince.

The prime suspect who is wanted in connection with the murder of Michael  Payne on November 11 last, in Albouystown, was arrested about 8.30 last night, in Meadow Brook Gardens, Georgetown.

A suspected bandit was killed during a shootout with police at Vryheid Village, West Canje, Berbice, early yesterday morning.

Government is to present a bill to parliament which is aimed at giving former Prime Minister Hamilton Green a pension that would enable him to live in accordance with the “high office” he occupied between 1985-92 and benefits under a highly controversial act for former Presidents would also be applicable to him.

Superintendent of Police Michael Sutton yesterday recounted what he described as the frightening attack on the Bartica Police Station on February 17, 2008, the day when 12 persons were massacred.

Two cousins, who were arrested after the police discovered almost 100 pounds of marijuana at a Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara apartment, were yesterday charged and remanded to prison.

A labourer was yesterday brought before a city magistrate to face a charge over the murder of Kamarang farmer Dexter Edwards.

Five alleged human trafficking victims were rescued and a wanted female perpetrator is before the court following a raid in the Omai Mining area last Friday, according to the Ministry of Social Protection.

Convicted drug trafficker Barry Dataram and his common-law wife Anjanie Boodnarine are set to face a new trial over unlawful possession of ammunition.

Citizens Bank Guyana Inc is closing its Charity, Essequibo Coast branch.

Having a disability, whether it is acquired or congenital, should not be a limiting factor when pursing higher education, according to two new University of Guyana (UG) graduates.

One of the three men who were arrested by the police on Monday following a high speed chase in the city was yesterday positively identified during an identification parade as the man who shot and robbed director of BM Soat Auto Sales, Rameez Mohammed last month.

Former attorney-general Anil Nandlall is calling on the government to release the forensic audits on the ‘Pradoville’ housing scheme and the country’s hosting of World Cup Cricket, while arguing that persons who may face prosecution are clueless as to alleged wrongdoings and therefore cannot prepare a proper defence.

Minister of Health Dr. George Norton has said the 250 nursing students who wrote the State Final Examination on October 18 and 19, 2016 will not be asked to re-sit these examinations “until a proper investigation is completed” into allegations that the examination papers were being sold.

Three billion-dollar bids were opened yesterday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) for the construction of a bridge at Sand Creek across the Rupununi River.

As the police continue to look for suspects in the armed robbery committed at the home of PPP General Secretary Clement Rohee, several searches were conducted yesterday at different locations but investigators came up empty-handed.

The government and the private sector are set to submit a joint position to the United Kingdom (UK) to address the current restriction on the importation of greenheart logs from Guyana, according to Mohindra Chand, Chairman of the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association’s Forest and Wood Sector Sub-Committee.

Speaking on Friday at the Bygeval Secondary School graduation, First Lady Sandra Granger urged that in the age of technology the human element always be kept in mind.

The Guyana Police Force does not have any proof that licensed firearms were rented out to commit recent robberies, Commissioner of Police Seelall Persaud said on Monday.