Guyana News

The Minister of Citizenship, Winston Felix today said that a full probe will be launched of how fugitive drug trafficker Barry Dataram and his wife managed to obtain fake Guyana passports.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – After a brutal week for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, Democrat Hillary Clinton maintained a substantial projected advantage in the race to win the Electoral College and claim the U.S.

The police today said that fugitive drug convict Barry Dataram has been handed over to them by the Surinamese authorities.

Eon Caesar, the owner of Safeway Security has demanded an apology from Kaieteur News over a report in its edition today.

Concerns raised by Auditor-General (AG) Deodat Sharma about the manner in which the administration of George-town spent a $300 million government subvention has led the Ministry of Communities to launch an audit into the city’s spending of these funds.

Noting that government can scrap the controversial Orders made to compulsorily acquire two plots of Carmichael Street land, Attorney General Basil Williams yesterday said all that has happened so far is that a legal process has been triggered.

Fugitive drug trafficker Barry Dataram and his wife, Anjanie Boodnarine, were yesterday afternoon captured by law enforcement officials in Suriname and Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan said he has requested that he be returned as quickly as possible to Guyana.

Bartica residents are enduring scheduled blackouts once again as one of the generators at the town’s power station has stopped working.

With the commissioning yesterday of an $83M sluice at Bagotville, West Bank Demerara, residents have been promised relief from flooding woes and have taken up the challenge of making farming vibrant again.

Calling for City Council to have a formal meeting with the Guyana Market Vendors Union, vendors from all around Georgetown armed themselves with placards and picketed in front of City Hall yesterday.

A City Constabulary raid in the area under the clock of the Stabroek Market yesterday resulted in a man being arrested after he was found with a quantity of narcotics.

The Auditor General’s Office has stated that the APNU+AFC government should not have used the “single source” method of procurement for the selection of consultants to conduct the 45 forensic audits it commissioned upon attaining office in 2015.

The Ministry of Public Health paid over $14 million on drugs and medical supplies for unidentified PPP/C government officials in February last year, according to the latest Auditor General’s report.

Based on a directive from Cabinet, the Board of Directors of the George-town Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has instructed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Michael Khan to proceed on leave until the end of his contract in July, 2017.

The owners of the Gafoors Houston Complex only recently secured insurance coverage for the US$2M stocks that went up in flames on Monday and an investigator from the US has been hired to determine what transpired.

After a six-hour-long debate, the National Assembly on Thursday adopted the National Youth Policy, which the opposition criticised for failing to address the reality of young people in Guyana.

Heeralall Sukdeo, the Guyanese man who has been charged in the United States with attempting to smuggle over 250 kilogrammes of cocaine in a shrimp shipment, was yesterday convicted in Brooklyn Federal Court.

Kemo Scott, who had been on the run from police, was yesterday brought before a city court to face a charge for the murder of a Port Kaituma dredge owner, just over a month after his father was also charged with the crime.

Kevin Farrell, the driver of the minibus that crashed along the Herstelling Public Road on Tuesday, was yesterday charged with causing the death of his conductor, just one day after the man succumbed to his injuries.

The bullet-riddled body a Brazilian miner was found at Port Kaituma in the North West District on Thursday afternoon.