Guyana News

When 23-year-old Dr Kibwey Peterkin delivered the 50th valedictorian’s address at the University of Guyana’s convocation ceremony last evening, he became not only the first medical student to do so but the first student from the Faculty of Health Sciences to have earned the honour.

Thieves broke into the Brickdam Secondary School sometime between Thursday afternoon and Friday morning and carted off two laptop computers and a quantity of cash.

A Bel-Air resident is wanted by the police for questioning in connection to a multi-million-dollar fraud at the ScotiaBank, Carmichael Street location and two other persons including an employee of the bank are also the subjects of the investigation.

ExxonMobil has begun investing funds in the Diamond Special Needs School to improve its infrastructure and enhance the capacity of its teachers in relation to special needs education.

Two recreational grounds in south Georgetown were on Friday commissioned by the Department of Culture Youth and Sport of the Ministry of Education as a part of its Community Grounds Enhancement Project.

A framework for the reform of Guyana’s security sector is being developed with members of an advance team working with Guyanese investigators to assess the strengths and weaknesses of our current security programme.

Minister of State Joseph Harmon last Thursday said that any dispute between Commissioner of Police Seelall Persaud and former acting Commissioner David Ramnarine should have and could have been handled internally.

Guyana will soon see a corps of wardens operating within the natural resources sector performing such diverse tasks as supporting compliance, enforcing policy and performing emergency rescue and disaster recovery.

With approximately 1.6 million hectares of forest free after Barama Company Ltd refused to renew its Timber Sales Agreement, the government is currently reviewing a number of options for its alternative use.

Police in ‘B’ Division are reporting success with the Guyana National Road Safety Council’s White Knight campaign, which was launched on November 5, in an effort to reduce road fatalities.

As part of heightened security activities, the Joint Services, today, conducted Operation Safe Guard at the Georgetown and New Amsterdam prisons and seized a large quantity of contraband items.

The police say they are making diligent efforts to apprehend a thirty year old tenant who allegedly shot his landlord multiple times to his legs because he was warned to discontinue doing illegal business on the property.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies cricket was once again rocked by controversy today when batting star Darren Bravo was controversially sent home ahead of the Tri-Nations Series in Zimbabwe, after the West Indies Cricket Board sensationally cancelled his match/tour contract over a contentious tweet deemed “disparaging” to president Dave Cameron.

MARRAKESH, Morocco (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump’s policies are likely to make it harder for developing nations to obtain the growing finance they need to combat climate change, threatening one pillar of a 2015 international agreement to slow global warming.

In light of information on a “potential domestic security threat” and increased crimes, the government yesterday announced that the police force and army will be conducting security operations, which will include aerial coverage by helicopters, in targeted areas.

The Maternal and Child Health Unit of the Ministry of Public Health is seeking to expand its available family-planning options with the introduction of new, long-acting reversible contraceptive for women.

A So Ruimveldt man was shot dead yesterday morning after he and an uncle broke into an Albouystown house to confront another man over a bicycle.

Two men carted off over $3M in electronics from a Mon Repos dealer during a brazen attack yesterday afternoon.

Not disputing the legitimacy of sex tapes that have been the focus of a scandal involving his client, self-proclaimed ‘Pope’ Philbert London, attorney Jerome Khan said yesterday that no crime has been committed and only his congregation should pass moral judgement.

After answering the appeal by President David Granger and the APNU+AFC administration for Guyanese in the diaspora to return home and develop the country, remigrant Lenox Shuman is grappling with buyer’s remorse.