Guyana News

Police yesterday pulled the dead body of a man out of a trench at Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara.

A senior citizen was left traumatised yesterday after two gun-toting bandits attacked her shortly after she left the Bourda Post Office.

An autopsy performed yesterday on the remains of farmer Infant Forrester, whose badly decomposed body was discovered on Wednesday at Craig Sea Dam, East Bank Demerara, was inconclusive.

Ten sponsors yesterday formally offered their support for the inaugural Coconut Festival, handing over cheques at simple ceremony, as the date for festival approaches.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) says it has taken note of the government’s intention to exercise its right under the Acquisition of Lands for Public Purposes Act to acquire private lands for public use.

Fugitive drug trafficker Barry Dataram and his common-law wife Anjanie Boodnarine were this morning arrested at a house in Suriname by law enforcement officers.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. (GuySuCo) says that preparations are currently underway to commence cultivating rice at the Wales Estate.

Attorney General Basil Williams yesterday denied that government has compulsorily acquired the private property at Middle and Carmichael streets, while saying the order issued to allow for surveying works was a prerequisite for negotiations with the owners.

President David Granger yesterday announced his administration’s upcoming legislative agenda, which includes the delinking of the immigration department from the Guyana Police Force.

At the conclusion of a parliamentary address in which he laid the troubles of the previous decade at the feet of the PPP/C, President David Granger yesterday voiced his hope for both sides of the National Assembly to find common ground but Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo cast doubt on his sincerity, while questioning what he has done to move the agenda forward.

A young miner was found buried in a shallow grave along the 16 Miles Road in Bartica on Wednesday morning and it is suspected that he was robbed while transporting a quantity of raw gold for his employer and then killed.

Twenty-five-year-old Wayne Jackson Wharton, who was shot on Wednesday evening while standing on the West Front Road, succumbed to his injuries hours after and the police have since arrested two suspects.

The body of a cook was yesterday morning found in his bed at his Blue Berry Hill, Linden home with multiple stab wounds.

Full-time utility specialists from Canada’s Manitoba Hydro International Ltd. (MHI) will be working with the local management of the Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) under a three-year programme intended to improve the efficiency of the utility company.

Andre Dazzell, the Chief Accountant at the Ministry of the Presidency, yesterday testified that 24 memos, dated from August, 2011 to April, 2015 and related to requests for funds amounting to nearly $600M for unknown evaluation exercises, were purportedly signed by former minister Jennifer Westford.

Following heavy criticism, Minister of Public Health, Dr  George Norton yesterday apologised to the National Assembly,  President David Granger and the Guyanese people for providing inaccurate information about the controversial Sussex Street drug  bond and contract in August.

There is no risk in ending the contract with Wartsila for the management of four Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) supply stations, according to Board Chairman Robert Badal, who says the utility company is competent enough to undertake the job.

The Office of the Auditor General (AG) is investigating an apparent attempt by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to breach the Procurement Act by sub-dividing a contract worth $82.169 million so as to avoid cabinet scrutiny.

A team from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) which visited Guyana last month expressed shock at the extent of poverty on Lombard Street in the city.

A fire suspected to be of electrical origin gutted the two-storey, three bedroom home of a Corentyne family on Wednesday around 08:30 pm.