Guyana News

– includes annual payout to citizens The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) and A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) have announced plans to implement a recurring cash transfer programme called the “Good Governance Dividend” if elected to govern.

The second annual Destination Guyana Now Business Conference got underway yesterday at the Marriott Hotel in Georgetown.

Lenroy Michael Forde, also known as “Biggie,” was on Thursday found guilty by a jury of the 2021 murder of Odingo Anthony Heywood.

The National Data Management Authority (NDMA) on October 16 and 17, conducted a transformative two-day “Cyber Road Show” in East Berbice-Corentyne (Region Six), with more than 450 students across eight schools in the region benefitting from the initiative.

Samuel Charles, 27, was on Thursday sentenced to four years in prison by Justice Peter Hugh after he pleaded guilty to the charge of felonious wounding.

Sixty officers from the Guyana Prison Service have received their certificates after completing the University of Guyana’s Institute for Human Resiliency, Strategic Security, and the Future (IHRSSF), First Responders Course on Mental, Neurological, and Substance Abuse Disorders (MNS).

As part of the government strategy in the elimination of malaria, the Ministry of Health’s Vector Control Services convened a stakeholders’ consultation meeting at its Brickdam headquarters to discuss the development of the National Malaria Programme Strategic Plan for 2026-2030, a Ministry of Health release stated yesterday.

Head of the Strategic Management Department at the Guyana Prison Service, Rae-Dawn Corbin, has returned home from a successful training course at the United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (UNAFEI), stated a release on Thursday from the Guyana Prison Service.

Justice Gino Persaud this morning barred embattled Assistant Police Commissioner Calvin Brutus from leaving Guyana even as the State revealed that there are over 240 charges pending against him.

Caribbean Airlines (CAL) today announced the introduction of a new service connecting Suriname and Guyana, starting November 03, 2024.

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday warned that Assistant Police Commissioner Calvin Brutus’ recent move to the court against the Attorney General and the police chief was self- destructive as the government has files on him from when he oversaw the procurement system of the police force.

– will be done periodically The $100,000 per adult citizen grant will be done mostly by cheques to ensure better transparency and record keeping, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said as he announced that citizens can expect future periodic payouts.

Over 40 innovations and applied research projects are on display at the University of Guyana’s Institute for Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (UGIRIE) exhibition which opened yesterday at the university’s multipurpose centre at the Turkeyen Campus and ends tomorrow.

Devendra Persaud, also known as “Fish Teeth,” was sentenced yesterday to 11 years in prison for the 2019 killing of fellow inmate Samuel Lyttle at the Lusignan Prison.

Former managing director of Willems Timber and Trading Company and former president of the Forest Products Association (FPA) John Willems, AA has died.

– ‘Ordinary Landscape of Violence’ launched The Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) will conduct a training and sensitisation series with lecturers and teachers from the University of Guyana and the Cyril Potter College of Education.

Naresh Ally, also known as “Little Robbery,” was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in prison by Justice Peter Hugh at the Demerara High Court for the 2018 killing of Romeza Sukdeo.

Veteran broadcaster Franklin Langhorne has died after a period of illness, the National Communication Network (NCN) said last evening.

Police yesterday said they are seeking the public’s assistance in identifying two men who were involved in robbery under arms committed on Zhou Jiabin, 45, a businessman of Westminster, West Bank Demerara.

-if called upon to form next gov’t The People’s National Congress Reform/A Partnership for National Unity (PNCR/APNU) has stated that if called upon to form the next government, it would ensure that early childhood care and education would be a top priority with an approach that would be holistic, a coalition release stated yesterday.