Guyana News

A Stabroek News reporter was assaulted by a prisoner yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court, while taking video footage of a murder suspect.

With growing complaints of reduced spending and a seemingly sluggish economy, President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) Vishnu Doerga says that significant growth in the economy cannot happen overnight and urged patience.

The preliminary inquiry (PI) into the charge against Leon Lindo, who is charged with conspiracy to murder late businessman Mohamed Khan, continued on Tuesday with the evidence of the secretary of attorney Nigel Hughes.

Brigadier (rtd) Edward Collins was yesterday sworn in as the sole commissioner to conduct an inquiry into the circumstances under which a foreign aircraft, which was discovered near the village of Yupukari in Region Nine two weeks ago, landed in this country.

As pressure builds for action, Crown Mining Supplies has consulted with a professional salvager to retrieve their sunken dredge at Piremap Falls, Mazaruni River, while MARAD says that a date cannot be set as to when the river will be cleared.

By Leonardo Vivas Any candid observer visiting Venezuela five years ago could hardly anticipate what the country has become under Nicolas Maduro’s government.

The Bank of Montreal yesterday made a presentation to stakeholder ministers and members of the subcommittee on oil and gas on the likely financial impacts of the oil and gas industry.

A man who was caught on CCTV footage breaking and entering a trading store was yesterday jailed when he appeared before the chief magistrate.

Treated well, tourism has an extraordinary contribution to make to regional growth; treated badly it has the capacity to damage economies and reduce government revenues.

A Route 48 minibus plunged into a trench along Homestretch Avenue yesterday afternoon to avoid colliding with a motor car which reportedly made a sudden turn.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A majority of Americans say Democrat Hillary Clinton won Monday night’s presidential debate, but her performance doesn’t appear to have immediately boosted her support among likely voters, according to a Reuters/Ipsos national tracking poll released on Wednesday.

The Queen’s College Board of Governors and the School’s Administration say they have taken the decision to host this year’s Annual Inter-House Athletic Championship at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) Ground, Shiv Chanderpaul Drive on Friday, September 30, 2016 at 9: am.

The beleaguered Guyana Sugar Corporation today said it has invited representatives of the three unions in the industry to meet tomorrow to discuss the current and future status of the corporation.

(Barbados Nation) The Grantley Adams International Airport will remain closed until the all clear has been given.

An East Canje cattle farmer was found dead with four gunshot wounds yesterday at a dam in Gangaram Settlement and his family suspects that his death is linked to a recent spat over land.

Godfrey Gill, 22, and Sherwin Clark, 27, the two men who police say are responsible for murdering Better Hope pensioner David Ramkissoon, were yesterday charged with the crime as well as armed robbery.

In his absence, self-professed drug lord Barry Dataram was yesterday sentenced to 60 months in jail for trafficking cocaine, while his three co-accused, including his common-law wife, who was also a no-show, were acquitted due to a lack of evidence.

A Crop Extension Officer attached to the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) died after a vehicle she was travelling in toppled on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway in the vicinity of Bamia Creek yesterday.

The Buddy’s Pool Hall and Night Club on Sheriff Street have been closed  following a fall in business and a medical school is now operating in a part of the huge building.

The 14-year-old, of Mahaica, East Coast Demerara, who lost his life in the freak accident at Abary Creek on Monday evening, when he was reported to have been pinned by a canter truck, was helping his rice farmer father when the mishap occurred.