Guyana News

Even as Dynamic Airways continues to investigate the misplacement of the passport of a United States-based Berbice woman, who has been stranded here since last Saturday, it yesterday promised to return her and family to their home free of charge.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has advised that no charge be laid against PPP/C MP Nigel Dharamlall over alleged threatening behaviour towards an employee of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) office in Guyana.

Just over two and a half years after it was formally launched, Silhouette Restaurant has now decided to cease its day-to-day operations beginning July 1.

Justice Navindra Singh has been summoned to appear in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court later this month when he will answer a charge resulting from an altercation he had with a motorist who has since filed private criminal charges.

Teachers and students of the Brickdam Secondary School no longer face imminent relocation or reassignment to other schools but will occupy the current building for the remainder of the school term.

A month after being charged in connection with the Ramada Princess Casino heist, Wayne Griffith, Junior Stewart and security guard Andrew Blackman denied the charge yesterday at a city court.

Even though the floodwater has started to recede in Mahaicony Creek areas, farmers’ losses are increasing as their livestock continue to die and their rice farms remain inaccessible.

Amid burgeoning criticism, Town Clerk Royston King yesterday said that a city team in Mexico City is being presented with the final rollout schedule of a controversial  parking meters project.

Norway’s Minister of Climate and Environment, Vidar Helgesen, and Guyana’s Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman, have restated their commitment to reach their shared goals as set out in the bilateral partnership on climate and forest, according to a report yesterday on the website of the Norwegian Government.

A 55-year-ol visually impaired man of Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara lost his life four days after he was struck down by a minibus on the Leonora Public Road on June 7.

An online petition is calling on the Guyana Government to release the report from the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) done on the death of politician and historian Dr Walter Rodney and to change ‘death by misadventure’ to ‘murder’ on his death certificate.

Floyd Primo, who was wanted by the Guyana Police Force, appeared in a city court yesterday for a second time where he faced a charge of attempting to sell a non-existent property.

A 21-year-old mother of two, booked to travel to Barbados on a LIAT  flight, was yesterday nabbed with 3.1 kilogrammes of cocaine strapped to her body at the Eugene F Correia International Airport (EFCIA), Ogle.

The Ministry of Social Protection has promised to look into the circumstances surrounding the death of construction worker Carl Clarkson, who was electrocuted on Sunday at his work site.

One of the RK Security Service guards who it was alleged staged a robbery in which a quantity of cash as well as revolvers and rounds of ammunition were stolen, appeared before a city court yesterday after another gun and matching rounds were reportedly found at his house.

Trans Guyana Airways (TGA) decided to discontinue flights to Annai in the North Rupununi to curtail the financial losses being suffered as a result of a lack of passengers travelling to that area, according to its Public Relations Consultant Kit Nascimento.

The  Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) has installed energy efficient streetlights along the Timehri Highway at a cost of $2.1m, a release from the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) said yesterday.

A miner was remanded to prison after denying that he had marijuana for trafficking when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.

A course aimed at training young people to operate and repair heavy machinery was launched on Tuesday at the Linden Technical Institute (LTI).

On Monday, Minister within the Ministry of Natural Resources, Simona Broomes presented five fogging machines to Dr.