Guyana News

Police are investigating the death of a nine-year-old Black Bush Polder boy who was found unconscious floating in the water at Number 63 Beach yesterday, while on a family outing.

Even as Phillip and Wendy Sandy mourn the mysterious death of their six-year-old daughter Akila, they are hoping that an autopsy will help save her siblings, two-year-old Destiny and 18-month-old Devine.

Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of the Presidency Omar Shariff, who is now the subject of a financial crimes probe, believes he was sent on leave as a smokescreen because he had begun unearthing massive corruption, including the alleged misuse of international donor funds, a source close to him said.

Two sets of Cub Scouts who travelled to Guyana for the 14 Caribbean Cuboree were up to last evening stuck at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) due to the cancellation of their InselAir flight, which was caused by the disruption of the airport’s Automated Airlines Check-in services.

The 51-year-old driver of a John Fernandes container truck last night crushed an unidentified man to death at the corner of Croal Street and Avenue of the Republic.

A scrap iron dealer’s tragic death caused chaos outside the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) yesterday as a fight broke out among feuding relatives.

A Guyanese woman is set to appear in court in Barbados tomorrow on cocaine charges, after she was held at the airport on arrival on the island last week.

With an approach slab to the $350 million Hope Canal Bridge rotating away from it, the government faces a significant repair bill as questions mount over how the defects liability period expired without the contractor, Dipcon of Trinidad being asked to remedy the problem.

There is a grave need for the sensitization of children in residential care about their rights and responsibilities, according to a recent study, which also says that caregivers are being left in the dark about the reasons for some admissions.

A 53-year-old man is now dead following an accident that occurred on Sunday at Maria’s Lodge, Essequibo Coast.

One hundred and six indigenous villages and 2,000 of their youth in Guyana’s hinterland have been able to benefit from the Hinterland Employment Youth Service (HEYS) programme since it began almost a year ago.

A taxi driver sustained injuries when the car he was driving collided with a parked truck along the Bagotville, West Bank Demerara Public Road around 5 am yesterday.

President David Granger on Friday bade farewell to outgoing United Nations Resident Coordinator in Guyana and the United Nations Development Programme Resident Representative, Khadija Musa, who he said has served Guyana with distinction over the last four years.

An Albouystown mason who had been remanded to prison on multiple charges of armed robbery stemming from gunpoint attacks in the vicinity of South Ruimveldt, was on Friday given an opportunity pleaded to the charges.

A murder charge now looms for Demico cook Alexis Turpin and her lover Stephon Barlow, following the death of Sherwin Johnson, the father of her child.

A brutal attack on a woman by her estranged husband has left her nursing several wounds about her body and pleading for justice.

An Airy Hall businessman was last Friday accused of stealing shop items from his mother.

The Den Amstel Cultural Organisation (DACO), which conducted packed activities in observance of this year’s Emancipation Day celebration, ended yesterday evening with indoor games and musical entertainment.

The Caribbean Youth Environment Network (CYEN)-Guyana Chapter strives to strengthen environmental awareness among primary school children through its annual ‘Shaping Young Eco-Change Makers Day Camp.’

President David Granger today inspired a reconciliation at the Region Five council which had been riven by six months of protests over an alleged snubbing of the Head of State by Chairman Vickchand Ramphal.