Guyana News

An Essequibo Coast teen drowned on Saturday afternoon during an outing with his friends at the Aurora seawall.

Bandits on Saturday morning attacked and robbed a fish vendor and his wife at their Rose Hall, Corentyne home, assaulting the couple and firing a shot before escaping with cash and jewellery.

A taxi driver attached to the Sheriff Taxi service was shot during the wee hours of yesterday morning in an apparent hijacking attempt.

A Saturday afternoon fire gutted the top storey of the old Nurses Hostel at Charles Place, New Amsterdam, Berbice.

A Corentyne motorcyclist is on life-support in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he collided with a cow on Saturday night.

The discovery of an anomaly has led the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) to apply the applicable 10% import duty on alloyed steel instead of the previous 5%.

Rice farmers attached to the Corentyne Youth Farmers Co-op are pleading with the authorities to assist with clearing a canal to improve farming activities in the area and a top official has pledged to find a solution.

A Northwest resident was on Friday remanded to prison by a city magistrate after it was alleged that he attempted to kill another man with a cutlass.

An Albouystown man was placed on bail after he denied a charge of robbery with aggravation committed against Chinese nationals at Regent and Bourda streets.

The Ministry of Public Health is monitoring the condition of Thelma Robeiro, the Rupununi woman who was left in a vegetative state following a surgery for gallstones at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) earlier this year.

Despite the appearance of journalist Travis Chase and HGPTV station manager Nyjel Fraser in a city court to testify in the trial of self-confessed drug trafficker Barry Dataram the prosecution now faces the task of obtaining Chase’s written statement.

Workers attached to the Blairmont Sugar Estate on Friday participated in a picketing exercise, protesting what they said was the unfair dismissal of one of their colleagues.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – New York police were investigating reports of gunshots fired inside a terminal at John F.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Jamaica’s Usain Bolt won his third consecutive Olympic gold medal in the 100 metres with a time of 9.81 seconds on Sunday.

The police say that they conducted a drug eradication exercise at Twenty Miles, Ituni, Upper Demerara during which over fifteen acres of cultivated cannabis was destroyed.

The police say that investigations are being conducted into a fatal accident which occurred at about 22:20h last night on the Ann’s Grove Public Road, ECD, that resulted in the death of John Forde, 27yrs, of 17 Supply, Mahaica, ECD.

Permanent Secretary (PS) of the Ministry of the Presidency Omar Shariff yesterday denied any involvement in the theft or embezzlement of public funds and charged that the distorted information appearing in the media is evidence of a campaign to stain his character.

Photos by Joanna Dhanraj This village is the third of the same name that the World Beyond Georgetown has visited.

A special investigation into the financial operations and functioning of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) over the period January 2012 to May 2015 blamed the hospital’s management for not tackling minor deficiencies which resulted in millions in losses.

Two families in Berbice are now in mourning following two suicide deaths in the county on Friday.