Guyana News

Daniel Seeram, a PNCR executive and the chairman of Region Four, was granted $50,000 in bail by Magistrate Alisha George yesterday when he appeared at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court on a wife abuse charge.

Charges of damaging state property, threatening beha-viour and trespass have been dismissed against head of the People’s National Congress Reform, Region Nine-chapter, Carl Parker, and party member, Godfrey Williams.

As Guyana welcomes the collaboration with four forensic scientists from India, Attorney General Anil Nandlall has announced that the University of Guyana (UG) will be launching a certificate programme in the forensic sciences come this November.

The 4-year-old Parika boy who was beaten by his stepfather to the point of having a fractured skull and other injuries, appears to be “out of danger” while some ranks are under investigation in relation to their handling of the matter.

After a decision to change the venue from the Mar-riott Hotel to the Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC), the AfriCarib-bean Trade and Investment Forum (ACTIF23) has now reverted to its original host location as space at the ACCC has proven to be inadequate.

From Monday, the processing time for passports will again be five days.

Devon Browne and Osafo Allen appeared yesterday before Magistrate Leron Daly at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court where they were charged with possession of cannabis for the purpose of trafficking. 

Eighteen-year-old Tyrese Adolphus appeared yesterday  before Magistrate Leron Daly at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court where he was charged with robbery.

In its efforts to safeguard the ICT assets of the state, the National Data Management Authority (NDMA) today warned that individuals involved in the accidental or deliberate damage of state-owned ICT infrastructure will be held responsible for the full cost of replacement and repairs.

The  Guyana Manganese Inc (GMI) says it  shipped 107,230 tonnes  of ore last year and declared that it is “absolutely not” involved in the extraction, processing or exportation of gold.

A stockpile of 30,000 tonnes of aggregate in the parking lot of the National Stadium yesterday created a huge bulge that raised the entrance into Red Road, Providence, East Bank Demerara by some six to eight feet.

By Antonio Dey Former Regional Educa-tion Officer (REdO) of Potaro-Siparuni, Anesta Douglas yesterday told the presidential inquiry into the Mahdia dormitory fire that it was impossible for her to review a key report submitted by the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) months before the blaze since she was given just one week’s notice to pack for Georgetown.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors say an Israeli private investigator used hackers to steal emails from climate activists who were campaigning against American energy giant Exxon Mobil Corp XOM.N.

ExxonMobil told President Irfaan Ali that it never told the opposition that the IHS Markit audit’s questionable sums were reduced from US$214 million to US$3 million and that government had agreed to it, Vice-President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday visited the site of the Gas to Energy project at Wales on the West Bank of Demerara and as sand was being stockpiled to consolidate the ground for pile driving, he was told that the first phase of the project should be completed by mid next year.

Nandanie Nimar, 25,  of Lot 260 Non Pareil, East Coast Demerara  was yesterday charged with causing the death of Pulwantie Ramjan by dangerous driving.

A Corriverton market labourer who was accused of murdering Lochan Persaud Kamaldeo, a vagrant, was yesterday freed at the High Court in Berbice.  

Millions of dollars went up in flames last evening at the home  of Region Two Councillor, Vierna Rasheed at Queenstown village.

Speaker of the National Assembly, Manzoor Nadir, has been denied the stay he was hoping for of  a $7.5 million judgment imposed against him for defaming former diplomat and board member of Guyana Power & Light (GPL), Kirk Hollingsworth.

President Irfaan Ali has mandated the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) to establish a Special Secretariat to handle its 10,000-plus backlogged local cases as well as those that originate from in the Diaspora.