Guyana News

The Georgetown Mayor and City Council will be discussing with members of the private sector a $25,000 container tax which the council says has already been implemented.

One week after security guard, Candacy Pitt was chopped to death while on duty, her husband of thirteen years was on Friday charged with the crime and remanded to prison.

Ex-policeman Waliaferro Joseph who was found guilty of attempting to murder his former lover, Uneatha McLean, at her Number 50 Village, Corentyne home, six years ago was yesterday sentenced to ten years in jail by Justice Brassington Reynolds.

A Charlestown businessman was yesterday sentenced to four years in prison after he was found guilty of cannabis possession for the purpose of trafficking.

Contention is brewing over a plan for parking meters in Georgetown with one company saying that it has an exclusive agreement while City Hall says that two companies will be engaged.

Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Recruitment and Retention personnel yesterday began a three-day exercise with experts of the Florida Army National Guard (FNG) on best practices.

After managing to evade the police for almost two months, Keon Hyles who was wanted for questioning in relation to the attempted murder of his reputed wife yesterday turned himself into the police.

The second retrial of Cyon ‘Picture Boy’ Collier, who is accused of murdering two Victoria brothers in 2006, began before Justice Priya Sewnarine-Beharry as the new criminal assizes commenced yesterday at the High Court.

After several complaints from vendors occupying the Parliament View Mall at Hadfield and Lombard streets earlier this week, Town Clerk Royston King yesterday paid a visit to the area to offer some relief to the vendors.

A man was yesterday remanded to prison after appearing in a city court to answer to two counts of armed robbery during which he allegedly stole over $500,000 in jewellery.

A Mahdia cook was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with fraudulently converting more than $2 million in raw gold to his own use.

Town Clerk Royston King yesterday denied any knowledge of $8 million gifted to the Global Friendships Foundation from the Chinese Embassy to aid in the restoration and enhancement of Georgetown.

Ganesh Gangadin, Mayor of Corriverton, during a recent interview with Stabroek News, disclosed that the Mayor and Town Council, following the state subvention under the Fiscal Transfers Act, has proposed a $15M project.

Multi-million dollar tenders were opened yesterday for rehabilitation works and living quarters for ten police stations.

Justice Navindra Singh yesterday empanelled a 12-member jury for the trial of two youths charged with the 2013 murder of seaman Antonio Isles who succumbed to injuries sustained after he was allegedly beaten by a group of persons at Pike Street.

Johnathan Ashby, the 12-year-old student of the Friendship Secondary School, who was struck down by a motorcycle a month ago, remains hospitalised but is slowly recovering.

United States-based charity, RAD-AID will be working with the Ministry of Public Health to develop Radiology Services here with the first major step being the introduction of a Radiology Residency Programme in September of this year.

A Route 41 minibus conductor was yesterday released on $50,000 bail after denying that he robbed another man of a phone while using violence.

Officials from the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) and the Linden Mayor and Town Council (LMTC) met with shop owners on June 2 to outline the legal requirements for carrying out their trade following the discovery that a considerable number of them are non-compliant.

With the people of his community at heart an overseas-based Guyanese recently opened a sewing establishment in Buxton.