Guyana News

The Region Executive Officer (REO) of Region Five has been transferred to Region Seven.

A man was on Friday remanded to prison at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court over threatening behaviour towards his brother.

A Campbellville carpenter was on Friday granted bail after denying that he brutalised his common-law wife.

Today will mark two years since Panama’s Copa Airlines began serving  Guyana.

Minister of Social Cohesion, Amna Ally on  Friday said that she was proud to honour 124 top performers from across five regions “who have done exceedingly well” at the 2016 National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA).

American oil firm ExxonMobil is expected to sink one more exploratory well before drilling production wells at its Stabroek block offshore Guyana, Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman says.

The Chairman of the Guyana Revenue Authority, Rawle Lucas says he is being paid a monthly stipend of $10,500.

The  Ministry of Education is  informing the public that schools in Georgetown will continue to distribute School Uniform Vouchers to Parents /Guardians until Thursday, July 14, 2016.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana,  CMC – Trinbago Knight Riders defeated Guyana Amazon Warriors by seven runs, in the 11th game of the Caribbean Premier League at the National Stadium at Providence here Sunday.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad was jolted by an earthquake at daybreak today.

At about 19:20 hrs yesterday, the police say that a fatal accident occurred at Vryheid’s Lust Public Road, East Coast Demerara, involving motor car PRR 530 and Shanti Singh, age 30 yrs of 75 Better Hope, East Coast Demerara.

Several ‘cold cases’ are expected to be reopened by the Major Crimes Unit of the Guyana Police Force, including the murders of Sheema Mangar and Trevor Rose, while the file on the 23-year-old case of Monica Reece will be reviewed, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum announced yesterday.

Story and photos by Bebi Oosman Number 35/Macedonia is located on the Corentyne in the ancient county of Berbice.

A post-mortem examination conducted on the remains of second-year University of Guyana (UG) student Harris Anthony Persaud revealed that he died from drowning.

A single mother made several efforts over the past four years to get her daughter out of an abusive relationship which ended last week when she was chopped to death.

Town Clerk Royston King said the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) was pushing to have an extension for vendors occupying private land at Lombard and Hadfield streets.

The prime suspect behind the lobbing of a grenade outside the Kaieteur News office more than one month ago has fled the jurisdiction and is believed to be in neighbouring Suriname.

A Guyanese man who was held at the JFK Airport in New York last September with what was later determined to be cocaine in rum has been jailed for 27 months in what the US said was a long-running narcotics importation conspiracy.

Further vocational training has been recommended for 50 students who are leaving the Canje Secondary School without Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) qualifications.

The case file in relation to the murder of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing was recently re-sent to the police and recommendations were made for them to conduct further investigations in order to determine the intellectual authors behind the execution.