Guyana News

Nine firearms, including seven .32 pistols, have been reported stolen by licensed firearm holders since July and police have found that such weapons were used in a number of the robberies committed recently.

Three persons were hospitalised last evening after a drive-by shooting at a car wash at Enmore, East Coast Demerara (ECD).

Over the last three months, the police have seized a total of $114M in narcotics and some 136 intended traffickers have since faced charges and are before the courts.

Barama Company Ltd is currently reviewing a draft contract proposed by the government to continue its operations here.

The University of Guyana (UG) last evening sent out a mass email to students informing them of an approved 5% increase in its tuition fees, effective from this year.

After being blind for the past 10 years due to cataracts, a 94-year-old man has had his sight restored.

Bartica will today celebrate National Tree Planting Day by hosting a Green Walk and distributing 300 fruit trees to residents, Mayor of Bartica Gifford Marshall has said.

Auditor General Deodat Sharma yesterday presented Speaker of the National Assembly Dr Barton Scotland with the 2015 Auditor’s General’s Report.

The members of the Public Procurement Commission have not been sworn in due to “administrative concerns in relation to its Terms of Reference (ToR).

The expansion works along the East Coast public road remain indefinitely stalled as the Ministry of Public Works (MPI) is waiting on the Ministry of Finance (MoF) to finalise the funding.

The government is repurposing land previously identified for the 1,000 Homes Project, launched under the former administration, to construct apartment buildings, duplexes and condominiums.

Jairam Chaitram, 18, one of the four persons charged with the murders of three persons, including a teenage boy at Mibicuri, attempted to break out of the New Amsterdam Prison on Tuesday.

Two teens were yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with two counts of robbery, including a carjacking.

SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates,  CMC – Beleaguered West Indies extended their miserable run when they slumped to a fourth straight defeat to Pakistan, losing the opening One-Day International by 111 runs under the Duckworth/Lewis method here today.

Homicide Detectives assigned to the Rio Inn Night Club incident, this morning searched a house at Hadfield Street, Lodge, during which two unlicensed handguns (.32 pistol and a .38 revolver along with fifteen (15) rounds of ammunition were found, police said today.

Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL), Renford Homer, has told the Government Information Agency (GINA) that the power company is moving to provide electricity to unserved areas from next month.

GuySuCo yesterday told the three sugar unions that losses of $14.1b and $13.7b are being projected for this year and 2017 respectively and rejigging of the industry was “inevitable and absolutely necessary”.

After intervening in a fight between his parents, an Annandale youth was fatally stabbed, allegedly by his father, on Wednesday night.

Saying that a lack of resources to police the country’s borders was in part responsible for convicted drug trafficker Barry Dataram being able to flee before his sentencing, President David Granger yesterday also called for “a greater level of alertness” on the part of the magistracy in such cases.

Police are searching for five bandits who kicked down the door of a Herstelling family’s home and robbed them of over $2 million in cash and jewellery during the wee hours of yesterday morning.