Guyana News

Acting Chancellor Carl Singh has ordered that immediate steps be taken to prepare the records in an effort to expedite the hearing of the appeal of the High Court’s ruling that APNU+AFC ministers Winston Felix and Keith Scott can’t hold seats in the National Assembly as non-elected Members of Parliament (MPs).

A team from the Ministry of Public Infrastructure is still examining ways to make the controversial High Street complex, which formerly housed the Guyana Broadcasting Cor-poration, safe for occupation, Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman said on Thursday.

Residents of Orealla are trying to prevent the Orealla-Siparuta Village Council from leasing 300 acres of land to a Crabwood Creek businessman to conduct farming activities.

Hosea Hopkinson, the bus conductor who was charged with robbing a woman outside of a pizzeria on Sheriff Street last Monday, was yesterday granted his release on bail and just hours later he was charged with a similar crime.

Milton Van Lewin, who was allegedly found with a gun and ammunition at a New Amsterdam house on Tuesday, was yesterday refused bail on two charges.

An East La Penitence resident was yesterday granted his release on $150,000 bail after he denied that he broke and entered a home and stole over $6 million in property.

Trinidadian national Anthony Nestor, accused of incurring over $300,000 in debts at two different hotels by false pretence, is set to face another charge for the same offence.

Georgetown Magistrate Fabayo Azore is expected to rule on December 1st on a no-case submission made on behalf of Manx Powers, the driver who is accused of causing the death of former world champion boxer Andrew ‘Six Head’ Lewis.

Following up on its promise to crack down on unsafe practices, MARAD today said that north west communities have been told that passenger vessels will not be able to operate on the rivers there during the hours of darkness except for emergencies.

Police are investigating a fatal accident which occurred about 7.15 this morning on the Houston Public Road, EBD, that resulted in the death of Harry Bridgemohan, 26 years, of Patentia Housing Scheme, WBD.

Based on weeks of intelligence gathering, ranks of the Guyana Police Force yesterday during a ten-hour operation in the Berbice River, destroyed several acres of cannabis and nine camps.The

Former Attorney General Anil Nandlall today asked what had become of the online edition of the Official Gazette which had been inaugurated under his tenure in 2013.

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.