Guyana News

In the wake of the dismissal of 11 workers, management of Demerara Timbers Limited (DTL) met with the Guyana Agricultural & General Workers Union (GAWU) and presented the option of selling or restructuring the operations.

The Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs yesterday launched the Sustainable Development Agreement Framework (SDAF) for Amerindian villages.

A Bel Air taxi driver accused of wounding told a city court on Wednesday that the complainant had stolen his motorbike and threatened him with a firearm.

The New Amsterdam Mayor and Town Council (M&TC) has taken a decision to enter and clean the vacant lots filled with bushes in the town.

The Guyana Police Force says it has recorded a 21% decrease in serious crimes at the end of September, 2016 compared to the same period last year.

The Rambeer family of Wales, West Bank Demerara say they are constantly being affected by loud music coming from the homes of four neighbours, despite the intervention of the police.

A member of the Guyana Prison Service was yesterday placed on self-bail by a city magistrate, after he denied a charge of assaulting a child.

The owners of Dynasty Night Club and Sports Bar on Aubrey Barker Road, South Ruimveldt are disturbed over reports that a man was shot one week ago in front of their business place and later died.

A city magistrate yesterday dismissed a charge of cannabis possession against Nigel Duke, a caretaker who had been charged along with his common-law wife, in June.

An accident on the Herstelling, East Bank Demerara public road on Tuesday morning, during the rain, left three persons hospitalised and several others injured, after the driver lost  control of the minibus they were travelling in.

A 21-year-old man accused of stealing $105,000 has been granted bail of $200,000.

Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan and his budget team were yesterday left waiting in their boardroom for the parliamentary opposition, GINA said.

Three Cuban nationals have been charged with forging immigration stamps, which were found in their passports by police.

(Reuters) – Nicole, which is on track to hit Bermuda, strengthened into a Category 3 hurricane on Wednesday, the U.S.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC – West Indies selectors have axed Denesh Ramdin and Kieron Pollard for next month’s Tri-Nations Series in Zimbabwe.

President David Granger today suspended the Chairman of the Public Service Commission, Carvil Duncan pending the outcome of the work of a tribunal which was set up to consider whether he should be removed from the post.

Cabinet yesterday took a decision to have Attorney-General Basil Williams prepare a report to explain the compulsory acquisition of  two plots of land at Carmichael and Middle streets belonging to High Commissioner to Canada Clarissa Riehl and the Beharry Group of Companies, while the latter is preparing a legal challenge.

The origin of Monday’s fire that gutted a bond at the Gafoors Houston Complex has not yet been determined, according to Fire Chief Marlon Gentle.

Promising to be a voice of the citizenry that will not only assist in the creation of employment opportunities but ensure there is transparency and equitable distribution of benefits from the nascent oil and gas sector here, the Guyana Oil and Gas Association was last evening launched at the Marriott Hotel.

A Charlestown man yesterday morning succumbed to a gunshot wound, just over a week after he was shot during a robbery in front of Dynasty Sports Club, on Aubrey Barker Road, South Ruimveldt.