Guyana News

Watcliffe Charles, the watchman who was struck down and killed while crossing the Plaisance Public Road, East Coast Demerara last Friday, died of multiple injuries, a family member said yesterday.

Thirty-eight farmers recently received macro-propagation training for sweet potatoes and cassava and seedling production training for hot peppers from NAREI under the Agriculture Policy Programme (APP).

Another date has been set for a decision in the trial of Carvil Duncan, the former Director who is accused of stealing almost a million dollars, from the Guyana Power and Light Inc.

The Ministry of Public Telecommunications is inviting web designers, software developers, computer programmers, and other interested persons to showcase their talents by participating in its first ‘Hack-a-ton.’

Three weeks after a  blaze destroyed a single bond at the Gafoors Shopping Complex at Houston, East Bank Demerara, the cause of the fire is yet to be determined as investigations are still ongoing.

According to a caution statement tendered and admitted at the trial of Clifton Graham who is accused of murdering taxi driver Rolston Bernard Henry, the accused was on the scene and witnessed the killing.

Six Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOS) benefitted from donations for youth programmes and initiatives from the Guyana Power and Light Incorporation (GPL) in observance of the company’s seventeenth anniversary, GINA said.

The police today said that the “excellent and commendable actions of a dutiful citizen” resulted in the police in ‘E’ Division (Linden/Kwakwani) being able to retrieve a high powered weapon to wit an AK 47 Rifle, two (2) magazines and fifteen (15) rounds of matching ammunition, fifteen (15) .38 live rounds, thirty nine (39) 9mm live rounds and twenty-one (21) .223 live rounds and a magazine.

Government’s decision to move Cabinet meetings to the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Base Camp Ayanganna, while “urgent repairs” have started at the Ministry of the Presidency, has been condemned by the opposition and criticised by observers.

Several individuals including a pensioner were being treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) last night after the minibus they were travelling in was hit by a motorcar at the corner of Regent and Albert streets.

Two men, Roberto Miggins and Quacy Benjamin, were yesterday charged with the recent murders of two miners at Port Kaituma, in the North West District.

A 14-year-old was one of the two persons yesterday read a murder charge for the murder of Mahaicony businesswoman Bibi Shairoon Nesha Ali.

  Guyana has moved 16 places up the World Bank’s latest ranking on ease of doing business.

Former Timehri guard Lakeram Shankar, who was charged with murdering a friend whom he allegedly stabbed during a drinking spree at his home, was yesterday committed to stand trial for the crime.

Government spent in excess of $305 million dollars from the Lottery Fund on projects, such as the D’Urban Park rehabilitation, without seeking needed parliamentary approval, according to the latest Auditor General’s report The 2015 report, which was laid in the National Assembly on October 13, explains that while the Ministry of Finance budgeted for Lottery Receipts of $1billion under the category of Miscellaneous Revenue and transferred $1.069 billion from the lottery fund to the Consolidated Fund,

The man who was beaten with a cricket bat last Thursday succumbed last night at the Georgetown Public Hospital as result of his injuries.

A city businessman is nursing a gunshot wound to his left thigh following a robbery in front of his Croal Street business last evening.

Former Regional Executive Officer (REO) of Region Six Dr. Veerasammy Ramayya has distanced himself from the repeated failure of the region’s tender board to award maintenance contracts to the lowest bidder last year.

Private Sector Commission (PSC) Chairman Edward Boyer says the implementation of the metered parking system in Georgetown “is not finding support” in the business community.

A slope failure caused the pit collapse at Rock Creek, Puruni, which resulted in miner Keon Wilson’s death, according to Guyana Geology and Mines Commission’s (GGMC) Senior Mining Engineer Dharampaul Chandan.