Guyana News

The Women and Gender Equality Commission in partnership with the Ministry of Education’s Department of Culture, Youth and Sport has launched a jubilee exhibition to honour 56 women for their contributions to their respective communities and Guyana as a whole.

The Prime Minister’s wife, Sita Nagamootoo, yesterday distributed school supplies to the children of the Vergenoegen Nursery School in Region 3.

Poor drainage is said to have been a contributing factor in Sunday’s flooding of Bartica’s commercial zone, according to Mayor of Bartica Gifford Marshall.

Following a confrontation over a box of mosquito coils, a man has been charged with assaulting a city constable and obstructing a roadway.

“I needed some personal effects to finish college” was the explanation given by a police trainee on Tuesday after he was charged with stealing his friend’s items.

A San Martin, Venezuela man appeared before a city court on Tuesday, where he was charged with wounding a policeman and incurring debt.

The police on Tuesday arrested four persons for questioning over the execution-style killing of taxi driver Oswald Rambarran, who was gunned down on Sunday, while delivering food in Albouystown.

Poor drainage is said to have been a contributing factor in Sunday’s flooding of Bartica’s commercial zone, according to Mayor of Bartica Gifford Marshall.

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure’s traffic and safety maintenance department plans to install street lights along the Number 19 road, as well as other areas in Upper Corentyne.

NEW YORK, CMC- Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell has reacted angrily to the sacking of West Indies head coach Phil Simmons, blasting the move as “bizarre” and motivated by “spite and vendetta”.

Regan Rodrigues, the man accused of murdering political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing, was today freed of the charge at the end of the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder.

The Stabroek News website was down for several hours this morning  as a result of technical difficulties.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) wrote Chinese logging company Baishanlin in February this year seeking $1.58b for breach of the terms under which tax exemptions were granted.

An infant and his seven-year-old sister were killed during the wee hours of yesterday morning after their father lost control of the car transporting them and crashed into two parked vehicles along the Blankenburg Public Road, West Coast Demerara.

After spending her weekend listening to the complaints from vendors living in her constituency, city councillor Andrea Marks staged a silent protest during yesterday’s statutory council meeting to bring attention to their plight.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has appealed the non-custodial sentences handed down to human trafficking convict Joyce Lawrence, in light of the law stipulating that a jail sentence is mandatory for persons found guilty of the crime.

A two-day search for 74-year-old Hedley Williams, who went missing on Sunday, came to a tragic end yesterday when his lifeless body was discovered in a clump of bushes, a short distance away from the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri, where he was last seen.

Speedboat monitors and a crackdown on uncertified boat captains are among measures announced yesterday by the Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) in the wake of a number of fatal collisions on the rivers.

Three men were arrested on Monday night after a total of 4,409 grammes of marijuana was discovered in the car they were occupants of along the Number 51 public road, Corentyne.

The deadline for the report on a review of the financial model of the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP) has been extended as Norconsult, the Norwegian company contracted to undertake the task, has asked government for more time.