Guyana News

An East Coast Demerara father of two died on Saturday after a mining pit at Rock Creek, Puruni caved in while he was working in it.

Minister of State Joseph Harmon yesterday stated that neither he nor President David Granger offered trade unionist Carvil Duncan monies in return for him resigning from several constitutional offices.

The sunken dredge that was blocking the Mazaruni River for six weeks has finally been shifted enough to allow the free flow of boats.

The man who is being accused of raping a 12- year- old girl and missed his last court date leading to an arrest warrant being issued was captured on Saturday.

Around 1.15 pm yesterday, the police say a twenty-two year old Barbadian national who was an outgoing passenger, destined for Barbados, was arrested by ranks of the Guyana Police Force at the Eugene F.

During an almost four-hour-long discussion of the poor performance in Mathematics recorded in this year’s National Grade Six Assessment, Cabinet members agreed that the situation was dire and a plan is needed to address it, Minister of State Joseph Harmon said on Friday.

Three armed men last night pounced on the Lai Li restaurant located in Portuguese Quarter, Port Mourant, Corentyne and escaped with an undisclosed amount of money and valuables.

Police are searching for a man who reportedly shot the mother of his child on Saturday afternoon at her West Ruimveldt home.

Police have released the suspects who were being questioned over the murder of Tuschen taxi driver Rolun Jodmie.

The trial of former minister in the PPP/C administration Dr Jennifer Westford and her former aide Margaret Cummings, for the alleged theft of over $600 million from the government, has been rescheduled to commence this month.

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim knew a man killed for daring to enter a protected area.

At about 11 pm on Saturday, ranks of the Guyana Police Force conducted a search on a male at Palm Court on Main Street, Georgetown, and found an unlicensed .38 Special Revolver with four matching rounds.

As part of the mandate of the Ministry of Social Cohesion, a Diversity Education and Inclusion Workshop Training of Trainers workshop was launched on Saturday at the Racquet Centre on Woolford Avenue, where 15 persons will be trained as part of a core team, which will train over 700 citizens to become social cohesion advocates.

The mother of now deceased miner Travis Rudder gave evidence two Fridays ago during the continuation of the preliminary inquiry (PI) into the charge against Orpheus Johnson of murdering Rudder.

Several persons who were arrested in relation to the Rio Inn Nightclub shooting which occurred two weeks ago have been released from police custody.

The Cornelia Ida resident whose body was discovered at the Hague foreshore on Thursday died from drowning and blunt trauma to the head.

Magistrate Judy Latchman on Tuesday adjourned the trial of the men charged with dousing columnist Freddie Kissoon with human faeces, to allow the new prosecutor in the matter, time to familiarize himself with statements in the case.

A South Ruimveldt man was on Thursday charged with selling parts of a motorbike that was given to him to repair.

President David Granger is confident that the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) will be established this month and in a bid to ensure high-quality work his government will for the first time be looking at the previous performance of contractors.

Guyana’s High Commissioner to Canada Ambassador Clarissa Riehl and her husband are the owners of one of the Carmichael Street lots being compulsorily acquired by government but sources close to her say that the move has caught her off guard and she had made it clear to Attorney-General (AG) Basil Williams that she was not prepared to relinquish the property.