Guyana News

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.

Queen’s College students today used their lunch period to protest the construction of a canteen which will cover a section of the land presently used for agriculture at the School.  

In the wake of the resignation of Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) Dr Steve Surujbally, the PPP has already started its selection of nominees for his replacement and is calling on President David Granger to formalize the process soon.

The suspected bandit who was killed in a shootout with police at Vryheid Village, West Canje Berbice on Tuesday, has been identified by his mother as Rondell Marks, also known as ‘Romel Hoppie’ and ‘Blackie’, 34, of Suddie Housing Scheme, Essequibo Coast.

A Better Hope, East Coast Demerara businessman and his employee were yesterday afternoon robbed of $2.5M, moments after they had visited a city bank and were waiting on the traffic light in front of the Ministry of Finance on Main Street.

A Land of Canaan mother of three is the country’s latest maternal death, after giving birth last Tuesday evening in the Maternity Ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC).

A summary of a 2013 market study embodying proposals for a land transport link and deep-water port connecting Guyana and Brazil suggests that such a project here is feasible.

A fire completely destroyed a D’ Edward Village, West Coast Berbice home on Tuesday night, leaving six persons homeless and the homeowners believe it was deliberately set.

Exxon Mobil, in collaboration with its partners Nexen Energy and Hess Corporation, officially gave notice yesterday of its find of commercial quantities of oil in the area via a letter to the Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman at the Ministry’s boardroom, Brickdam.