Guyana News

A tennis coach appeared before the chief magistrate yesterday charged with hitting her aunt with her car.

Fifteen-year-old Yannick Schultz, who was struck down on Saturday afternoon last along the Number Three Public Road, West Coast Berbice is being considered brain dead.

With 327,000 ounces of gold declared at the end of last month, “far in excess of what had been forecast,” according to Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment Raphael Trotman, it is projected that by the end of the year some 600,000 ounces would be declared.

The 16-year-old who was accused of chopping a 70-year-old man to death at Crane Housing Scheme, West Coast Demerara appeared before Magistrate Rochelle Liverpool at the Leonora court on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo yesterday met with a delegation of Wales Estate sugar workers over their concerns regarding the payment of their severance package.

Sea and river defence works at Ruimzigt, West Coast Demerara  have been completed.

The Rotary Club of Stabroek last Wednesday commenced its school improvement project at the St Joseph’s High School with a donation of school desks and bookshelves obtained through a partnership with Food for the Poor.

The Ministry of Education in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) yesterday commissioned a study into Out-of-School Children (OOSC) and one speaker cited the 14% figure at the secondary level.

Bauxite company Bosai has begun a study aimed at investing in the stalled manganese project in the North West with a team expected in the country soon, company secretary Norman McLean has said.

A Route 40 minibus driver was yesterday placed on a bond to keep the peace after threatening to stab another bus driver.

A mason who was allegedly held by the police with more than 500 grammes of marijuana in his possession was yesterday remanded to prison by the chief magistrate.

Former President Bharrat Jagdeo was on July 22, 2016 appointed an FAO Special Ambassador for Forests and the Environment.

Corporate Secretary of Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) Laurian Bancroft continued to give evidence on Tuesday during the trial of former GPL board member Carvil Duncan, who is charged with conspiring to steal over $28 million from the company.

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo has committed to providing support for the upgrading of Radio Paiwomak, the first hinterland community radio station in Guyana, which is based at Bina Hill, Annai.

The Indian Action Committee (IAC) will be holding an “Evening of Entertainment” on Sunday, July 31 at the National Cultural Centre.

Country Manager of Exxon Mobil Corporation, Jeff Simons today reaffirmed that the company will not start the actual extraction of oil from its huge offshore well for another five years.

ST.JOHN’s, Antigua, CMC-Promising Antiguan fast bowler Alzarri Joseph is set to make his Test debut after he was drafted into the West Indies side for the current home series against India.

(Reuters) – Chris Gayle and Shane Watson need no introductions in cricket-playing countries but while they are unlikely to become household names in the U.S.

Chairperson of the recently-established Bid Protest Committee (BPC) Renee McDonald has resigned even as the body’s first case—Cevons Waste Management’s protest against the Ministry of Communities over the award of a $221M Haags Bosch landfill maintenance contract—awaits a decision.

The main suspect in the Black Bush triple murder has been held and he is the owner of the same type of weapon that inflicted the deadly wounds.