Guyana News

A Linden youth, who allegedly armed himself with an icepick to mug a high school student, was yesterday remanded to prison.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – A galaxy of former West Indies stars converged on Kensington Oval for a celebrity game here Thursday night, to mark the 80th birthday of cricket legend Sir Garfield Sobers.

An excavator being operated by the Mahaica, Mahaicony, Abary-Agricultural Development Authority (MMA/ADA) came into contact with trees within close proximity of GPL’s transmission and distribution system at Ithaca causing some trees to fall onto the Network.

Twenty communities in five regions of the country and including large parts of the capital city have been identified for anti-crime measures under an IDB-funded programme.

Obina Hendricks ‘aka Hiney’ is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to ‘Trafficking in Narcotics’ on July 11, 2016, at the Eugene Correia International Airport, Ogle, the police say.

Police are preparing to charge a farmer, his teenaged son and an employee with last week’s  brutal Black Bush triple murder.

Over 100 passport applications are being received from New York alone on a weekly basis and this has placed pressure on the Central Immigration and Passport Office, Minister of Citizenship Winston Felix says.

President David Granger “sees nothing wrong” with the appointment of retired or serving military officers to civilian posts and maintains that the appointments are being made based on competence.

A co-worker of murdered Gafoor’s manager Terry Lackhan was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with killing him.

Bibi Safoora Salim, the woman who allegedly made death threats to President David Granger on Facebook, was yesterday freed of the charges.

A shortage of nurses at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has been confirmed by Public Health Minister, Dr.

An autopsy has found that a fluid build-up in the organs was the cause of death of Carol Chuniram, who died earlier this month at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre after an unsuccessful surgery to remove a foetus that had died in her womb.

An accident on the Houston Public Road last evening has left one woman dead.

Safraz Jallalodeen, who was busted in May at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport with over 10 pounds of cocaine hidden in powdered milk, yesterday testified that he saw half a dozen other people, who were prepared by the men who recruited him, make it through customs during an earlier trip.

The probe into the theft of a quantity of raw gold from several miners by five ranks attached to the Brickdam Police Station is ongoing, according to Crime Chief Wendell Blanhaum.

PPP executive and opposition Chief Whip Gail Teixeira on Wednesday presented what she said was evidence to support the contention of Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo that Indo-Guyanese are being discriminated against by the APNU+AFC government and that they are poorly represented on state boards and in other areas.

Twelve private training institutions have signed Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with the Small Business Bureau (SBB) to train entrepreneurs.

According to Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan, the government is still in the process of sourcing financing for the establishment of the Youth Investment Fund.

The preliminary report for the Commission of Inquiry into the fatal fire at the Hadfield Street Drop-in Centre pointed to some systemic problems and bad fire prevention arrangements, according to State Minister Joseph Harmon.

A prison officer is now behind bars after he was charged yesterday over an illegal gun that was found by police hidden in a car that he was driving.