Guyana News

A Quamina Street woman was arrested just before midday yesterday and is currently in police custody after she was caught attempting to post rice which consisted of a quantity of cannabis.

Head of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) James Singh, while elated about yesterday’s public acknowledgement of the part the unit and investigators from the Guyana Police Force played in a major drug conviction in the United Kingdom (UK), said it is only one example of the ongoing collaboration between the Governments of Guyana and the UK.

The commencement of the trial of the former public service minister Dr Jennifer Westford and ex-ministry personnel officer Margaret Cummings, on charges of forgery and the attempted larceny of state vehicles, has been delayed pending a decision by the High Court.

A Mabaruma man, said to be a father of ten, was sentenced to three years in prison yesterday after telling a city court that he was going to smoke the cannabis police had found in his possession.

After being out of use for more than two years due to vandalism, the Trafalgar Pump Station is expected to be working again before the next rainy season.

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is concerned about the delay with respect to the hearing of the elections petition filed by one of its parliamentarians, challenging the outcome of the 2015 general and regional elections.

Twenty-one students in Region Ten (Upper Demerara/Upper Berbice) were yesterday the recipients of bicycles and backpacks as a reward for being among the country’s top performers at the 2016 National Grade Six Assessment.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC – Discarded West Indies wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin has been penalized by the West Indies Cricket Board for his Twitter rant last week announcing his sacking from the Test squad.

President David Granger, today, established the Department of National Events, under the Ministry of the Presidency.

Guyanese investigators have been lauded for the assistance they provided to the UK authorities which today saw the convictions of two Turks for the trafficking of 3.2 tonnes of cocaine with an estimated street value of 512 million pounds sterling.

With around 400 people turning up each day, the Passport Office has been stretched to the limit and Minister of Citizenship, Winston Felix has made a series of proposals to overhaul the system including making the office semi-autonomous and civilian-run.

A Kitty woman remained in a critical state last night at a city hospital after being stabbed multiple times and left for dead in front of her home by the father of her child.

An elderly man died following a boat collision in the Moruca River, North West District on Saturday morning.

A  5.5 kilometres road will soon be built at Kururu on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway in Region 4, paving the way for access to a site designated to destroy old and derelict vehicles and for the overall use of residents in the community.

The sudden death of a sixteen-year-old East Canje girl shook the county of Berbice on Saturday, as relatives and friends are still at a loss as to what could have triggered the teen’s action.

Georgetown Mayor Patricia Chase-Green on Friday said that a $25,000 tax will only be charged for containers that are parked outside of a business place.

Argentina is considering assistance to the security sector in Guyana, its Ambassador Luis Martino says.

While residents and farmers of the Mahaicony Creek are seeing a significant drop in water levels after two months of deep flooding, they are convinced that even tougher times are ahead when the land dries out.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation has advertised for an intermediary to assist it with the sale of land to prospective buyers, The beleaguered and debt-ridden sugar corporation has resorted to land sales in the past to raise cash for its operations and to pay off bank loans.

Police yesterday acting on information picked up a human skull and several pieces of bone in the backlands of Bee Hive, East Coast Demerara.