Guyana News

A man was caught with some 2,000 grammes of cocaine along the Albion Public Road around 10.15 am on Saturday.

A Providence, East Bank Demerara miner was arrested by the police during the wee hours of Saturday and is currently assisting with investigations following the discovery of a 9 mm pistol and a quantity of ammunition.

(Reuters) – An eight-wicket haul from West Indies’ Devendra Bishoo breathed fresh life into the first test against Pakistan in Dubai on Sunday, leaving his side with a faint chance of pulling off the unlikeliest of wins in the day-night contest.

For the second year running, the national holiday for the Hindu festival of Diwali and the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha (GHDS) Georgetown motorcade will fall on the same day.

Less than 24 hours after being caught in an apartment in Paramaribo, Suriname, fugitive drug trafficker Barry Dataram and his common-law wife, Anjanie Boodnarine, were yesterday returned to Guyana, while the Ministry of Presidency announced an investigation into how they got fake passports to skip the country.

Living in Whitewater Central, Toshao Cleveland DeSouza said, has become much easier compared to a number of years ago when they had to foot it to Kumaka Market whenever they missed the tractor, as transportation is much more readily available.

A pedal cyclist died on Friday evening, hours after he was struck down by a motorcar while crossing the Bagotsville Public Road, West Bank Demerara (WBD) in the vicinity of his home.

It’s Saturday afternoon and children, freed from the responsibility of having to prepare for school the next day, spend the time playing on the street.

As HIV became a major epidemic in Guyana, a group of creative minds came together many years ago to use what they do best—the arts—to help to fight the scourge that was becoming a health burden and attacking persons of all ages, genders and status.

The Iwokrama Inter-national Centre on Friday announced that it has received Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Certification for its forest in what could be a major boost to the commercial prospects of this sustainable logging research facility which has faced funding woes for many years.

As it continues preparations for the oil and gas sector here, government says it has myriad plans, which include the independent United Kingdom-based think tank Chatham House coming to conduct an analysis on if an oil refinery would be beneficial here.

The decomposed body which was found in a trench at Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara on Friday has been positively identified as missing Mahaicony resident, Linden Adolphus Tappin.

Police in ‘F’ Division are hunting a man who stabbed another to death on Wednesday last at Baramita, North West District (NWD).

Chu Hungbo, Head of controversial Chinese logging company Baishanlin, has been listed as a principal of a venture seeking to quarry in the Amerindian settlement of Batavia in Region Seven but no permission has yet been given as the government is waiting for due diligence to be done.

Fearing dire repercussions for Guyana’s lumber sector from the United Kingdom’s restriction on greenheart timber imports, Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman says government is putting plans in place to have representatives travel to the UK next year to “press our case.”

Former army Chief-of-Staff Rear Admiral (rtd) Gary Best will be heading the Commission of Inquiring (CoI) that is to be set up to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of miner Keon Wilson, who was killed in a pit cave-in just over a week ago.

The driver who was involved in last Saturday’s accident on Sheriff Street, which claimed the life of 75-year-old Oswy Crum-Ewing has been released on station bail as the investigations into the matter continue.

The opposition People’s Progressive Party /Civic (PPP/C) has condemned what it says are threats by Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson after he declared that there would be a stepping up of efforts to prosecute officials for alleged wrongdoing under the former government.

Despite the fact that the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) Dialysis Unit is being utilized to its capacity, it has recorded 37 mortalities for the year so far because the number of patients surpasses its resources.

A post-mortem examination conducted on Friday revealed that miner Abraham Mohammed Khan, whose body was discovered in a shallow grave on Wednesday after he was reportedly robbed while transporting raw gold, died from a gunshot injury to the spine Khan, 24, of Third Avenue, Bartica, was on Wednesday morning found buried in the shallow grave along the 16 Miles Road, at Bartica.