Guyana News

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) is in the process of procuring a 1.7-megawatt generating set for Bartica, Region Seven which has suffered lengthy power outages after its three generators malfunctioned.

Hubert Nathaniel Bartholomew and Rushelle Gittens, who were charged last year with having over a kilo and a half of marijuana for trafficking at their Charlestown home, were sentenced to five years in jail yesterday.

Former President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday be-moaned crime here saying that from his comparative analysis of his party’s governance to the current APNU+AFC-led government, the situation is worse.

With Barama Company Limited not seeking a renewal of its forest concession agreement, the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) yesterday said it would be embarking on an assessment of the 25-year-old investment to citizens.

A Corentyne man who allegedly stabbed the mother of his children to death on Monday afternoon has been charged.

Workers from six of the seven sugar estates again staged picketing exercises yesterday after learning that the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) would not be paying any increase in wages and salaries again this year.

Rayon Jones, who was charged with the murder of Madewini mechanic Puranand Baljit, was yesterday committed to stand trial for the crime.

Over a month after police said they were advised by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to proceed with a cocaine trafficking charge against United Kingdom-based Guyanese Vanessa Moore, they reported yesterday that they have since been advised to withdraw it.

The trial of Jahryl Reid, who is accused of murdering Mabura businessman Colin McLean, will commence this morning at 9 before Justice Jo-Ann Barlow and a 12-member jury at the High Court in Georgetown.

After initial “teething problems,” Chairman of the Mon Repos/La Reconnaissance Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) Ayube Mohammed says the council has gotten work done, including improving garbage collection.

A team from the Ophthalmological Society of the West Indies (OSWI) is  currently in Guyana and will be doing two corneal transplants, GINA reported.

Ahead of the opening session for the first ever Coconut Festival to be held in Guyana this evening, farmers/producers raised the issue about the supply of coconuts  for their business and the state of old plantations.

A man is now critical at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was beaten by another man with a cricket bat.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) says it will provide technical help to the community of Kamarang following an outbreak of diarrhoea which has been blamed on the lack of potable water.

The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) yesterday re-launched its website during a ceremony in the Ministry of Agriculture’s Boardroom.

The Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) and the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) are engaged in active discussions with Demerara Timbers Limited (DTL) as it relates to the operations of the Company, the renewal of its Timber Sales Agreement (TSA) and the company honouring its financial obligations to the Guyana Forestry Commission.

A miner was yesterday fined $25,000 by a city magistrate after he pleaded guilty to assaulting another man.

A sustainable economic base is needed for the development of Guyana and the wider Caribbean Minister of Finance Winston Jordan says, according to GINA.

Police say they are investigating an alleged robbery under arms committed on the driver of a delivery truck, which occurred about 1900h.

The police say they are investigating an alleged robbery under arms committed on an overseas based Guyanese, during which a 42 year old, Peter’s Hall resident was shot in his neck, at Herstelling, EBD, about 0300h.