Guyana News

A bandit was on Saturday night caught by victims of the robbery, which occurred at  Joes Chinese Restaurant, Parfait Harmonie, West Bank Demerara and handed over to the police.

Additional legal issues that have surfaced have caused another delay in the start of the Bartica massacre trial, which is now set to commence tomorrow.

The curtains will rise at the end of this month on the fifth annual National Drama Festival.

The Ministry of Public Health on Thursday evening announced plans to heighten measures to prevent the spread of Diphtheria, an infectious disease that targets the respiratory system, across international borders.

The Sophia Health Centre is once again in operation, this time equipped with armed guards, after it was closed down briefly following an armed robbery three Wednesdays ago.

The Ministry of Public Telecommunications will be working with the Ministry of Citizenship for a more effective passport application system.

After being on the market for more than two years, the Guyana Office for Investment (Go-Invest) has stepped in to assist in getting the costly, modern building on the western side of Camp and Lamaha streets rented.

A man was caught with some 2,000 grammes of cocaine along the Albion Public Road around 10.15 am on Saturday.

A Providence, East Bank Demerara miner was arrested by the police during the wee hours of Saturday and is currently assisting with investigations following the discovery of a 9 mm pistol and a quantity of ammunition.

(Reuters) – An eight-wicket haul from West Indies’ Devendra Bishoo breathed fresh life into the first test against Pakistan in Dubai on Sunday, leaving his side with a faint chance of pulling off the unlikeliest of wins in the day-night contest.

For the second year running, the national holiday for the Hindu festival of Diwali and the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha (GHDS) Georgetown motorcade will fall on the same day.

Less than 24 hours after being caught in an apartment in Paramaribo, Suriname, fugitive drug trafficker Barry Dataram and his common-law wife, Anjanie Boodnarine, were yesterday returned to Guyana, while the Ministry of Presidency announced an investigation into how they got fake passports to skip the country.

Living in Whitewater Central, Toshao Cleveland DeSouza said, has become much easier compared to a number of years ago when they had to foot it to Kumaka Market whenever they missed the tractor, as transportation is much more readily available.

A pedal cyclist died on Friday evening, hours after he was struck down by a motorcar while crossing the Bagotsville Public Road, West Bank Demerara (WBD) in the vicinity of his home.

It’s Saturday afternoon and children, freed from the responsibility of having to prepare for school the next day, spend the time playing on the street.

As HIV became a major epidemic in Guyana, a group of creative minds came together many years ago to use what they do best—the arts—to help to fight the scourge that was becoming a health burden and attacking persons of all ages, genders and status.

The Iwokrama Inter-national Centre on Friday announced that it has received Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Certification for its forest in what could be a major boost to the commercial prospects of this sustainable logging research facility which has faced funding woes for many years.

As it continues preparations for the oil and gas sector here, government says it has myriad plans, which include the independent United Kingdom-based think tank Chatham House coming to conduct an analysis on if an oil refinery would be beneficial here.

The decomposed body which was found in a trench at Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara on Friday has been positively identified as missing Mahaicony resident, Linden Adolphus Tappin.

Police in ‘F’ Division are hunting a man who stabbed another to death on Wednesday last at Baramita, North West District (NWD).