Guyana News

The preliminary inquiry into the charges against Alfie Garraway, Janiel Howard and Leroy Williams, the three men accused of throwing a grenade at Kaieteur News, continued last week with the testimony of a Kaieteur News security guard.

A twenty-eight-year old Chinese chef who was minutes after midnight shot and robbed as he was in the process of entering his Bonasika Street, Section ‘K’ Campbellville home, is hospitalised at a private hospital, in a stable condition, the police say.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump backed away from his promise to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexican

The deplorable state of the Skeldon Estate and the expenses it is incurring have pushed the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) Board to look at the options of either selling or diversifying it.

Hosororo, a small community within the Mabaruma sub-district of Region One (Barima/Waini), exudes serenity.

A large quantity of contraband items, including improvised weapons as well as cell phones and drugs, were seized during raids conducted at the Georgetown and New Amsterdam prisons yesterday as part of increased security measures.

The police are hunting for the tenant who allegedly shot his landlord four times in his legs on Friday evening, after he was warned to discontinue doing illegal business on the man’s property.

The over 1,600 new graduates of the University of Guyana (UG) were yesterday urged to stay and make the country great once more.

When 23-year-old Dr Kibwey Peterkin delivered the 50th valedictorian’s address at the University of Guyana’s convocation ceremony last evening, he became not only the first medical student to do so but the first student from the Faculty of Health Sciences to have earned the honour.

Thieves broke into the Brickdam Secondary School sometime between Thursday afternoon and Friday morning and carted off two laptop computers and a quantity of cash.

A Bel-Air resident is wanted by the police for questioning in connection to a multi-million-dollar fraud at the ScotiaBank, Carmichael Street location and two other persons including an employee of the bank are also the subjects of the investigation.

ExxonMobil has begun investing funds in the Diamond Special Needs School to improve its infrastructure and enhance the capacity of its teachers in relation to special needs education.

Two recreational grounds in south Georgetown were on Friday commissioned by the Department of Culture Youth and Sport of the Ministry of Education as a part of its Community Grounds Enhancement Project.

A framework for the reform of Guyana’s security sector is being developed with members of an advance team working with Guyanese investigators to assess the strengths and weaknesses of our current security programme.

Minister of State Joseph Harmon last Thursday said that any dispute between Commissioner of Police Seelall Persaud and former acting Commissioner David Ramnarine should have and could have been handled internally.

Guyana will soon see a corps of wardens operating within the natural resources sector performing such diverse tasks as supporting compliance, enforcing policy and performing emergency rescue and disaster recovery.

With approximately 1.6 million hectares of forest free after Barama Company Ltd refused to renew its Timber Sales Agreement, the government is currently reviewing a number of options for its alternative use.

Police in ‘B’ Division are reporting success with the Guyana National Road Safety Council’s White Knight campaign, which was launched on November 5, in an effort to reduce road fatalities.

As part of heightened security activities, the Joint Services, today, conducted Operation Safe Guard at the Georgetown and New Amsterdam prisons and seized a large quantity of contraband items.

The police say they are making diligent efforts to apprehend a thirty year old tenant who allegedly shot his landlord multiple times to his legs because he was warned to discontinue doing illegal business on the property.