Guyana News

Home Box Office Latin America (HBO LA) an affiliate of HBO, a leading premium pay television network in the United States has accused local company Gizmos and Gadgets of  infringing its intellectually property rights.

A new software application (app), aimed at improving the performance of pupils sitting Mathematics at the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) level, was launched yesterday at the National Racquet Centre, Woolford Avenue, Georgetown.

Minister of Public Telecommunications Cathy Hughes yesterday announced plans that would allow citizens to apply for birth and death certificates among other services online, as GTT launched its expanded LTE 4G service to Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam).

A medical laboratory technician, who is accused of setting the home of popular Disc Jockey (DJ), Dorrel Romeo called ‘DJ Magnum’on fire, was yesterday charged with the crime and released on her own recognisance.

For the year ended October 31, 2016, Scotiabank Guyana registered net income of $2.4 billion compared to $2.1 billion for the corresponding period in 2015.

A man who was stabbed to death during a scuffle more than one week ago at the Stabroek Market, has been positively identified as seaman, Hemant Persaud and the police are currently looking for a suspect.

The Special Organized Crime Unit (SOCU) is currently looking at 18 forensic audit reports, which have resulted over 100 smaller investigations, according to its head Sydney James.

A Rupununi farmer was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with killing his wife.

A Canefield, East Canje woman is now scared for her life, and has been left with no other choice but to move out from her home, after a man tried to strangle her yesterday morning.

Saying that the constitution leans heavily towards a judge being the “ideal person” to Chair the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom), Attorney-General Basil Williams SC has informed lawyers for Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo that any list of nominees solely comprising “any other fit and proper” candidate would be deemed unacceptable.

Select Members of Parliament (MPs) yesterday attended a seminar on competition law at the Public Buildings, where they engaged in discussions on the importance of building a competitive culture and the relevance of such policies to consumer welfare.

After not meeting for over a decade, the Guyana-Suri-name Cooperation Council convened yesterday in a bid to deepen, widen and consolidate the bonds of friendship between the two countries.

Regional accounting officers met yesterday with the National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and many acknowledged the shortcomings of their respective regions with regard to financial management and highlighted their challenges, with the most noted being issues with the national tender board.

The partially decomposed body of an unidentified man was found yesterday morning floating in a trench at Met-en-Meerzorg, West Coast Demerara, and it is believed that he was murdered.

A 52-year-old farmer is missing and feared dead, after the boat in which he was travelling collided with another on Sunday evening in the Lower Pomeroon River.

The City Engineers Department has been given one month to complete work at the Albouystown Health Centre which has been under renovations for almost a year.

Work on the Kitty Market has been placed on hold once again, Mayor Patricia Chase-Green said at yesterday’s statutory meeting.

  Work on the sinkhole on the Seawall Road near the head of Vlissingen Road is expected to begin by next week, according to Chief Works Officer Geoffrey Vaughn.

Magistrate Leron Daly is due on March 16 to make a decision on the charge against Ron Cole, the driver accused of causing the death of traffic policeman Nakosi ‘Kelvin’ La Fleur on the East Bank Demerara public road last year.

Two accused robbers met the same fate yesterday when they were remanded to prison.