Guyana News

Three persons were charged today with trafficking in narcotics in relation to the illegal landing of an aircraft at an unauthorised airstrip in Bashaizon Village, South Rupununi, Region 9, on 6th October 2024.

Police are investigating a fatal accident which occurred at about 17:45 hrs yesterday afternoon on the Lichfield public road, West Coast Berbice.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The world is on the brink of a new age of electricity with fossil fuel demand set to peak by the end of the decade, meaning surplus oil and gas supplies could drive investment into green energy, the International Energy Agency said on Wednesday.

The Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) today announced that dozens of charges have been recommended in an expanded probe of Assistant Commissioner of Police Calvin Brutus and the matter is now with the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

Police have issued a wanted bulletin for a man accused of being among three men claiming to be members of the Special Organized Crime Unit (SOCU) who abducted an Aurora Gold Mining Inc employee from Giftland and took him to his home where he was forced to hand over $9.5M.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday said that on October 10, 2024, it received a report from Crane Village, West Coast Demerara, regarding a substance seeping from the ground.

The investigation into Acting Deputy Commissioner of Police Calvin Brutus, conducted by the Special Organized Crime Unit (SOCU), has officially concluded with no evidence of any offence being committed.

With final decisions of two oil audits still outstanding, the contract for the third has been won by the same Vitality Accounting, Haynes and Ramdihal and Eclisar Financial (VHE) Consortium that did the second one and it will be inked next week, Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat said yesterday. 

President Irfaan Ali on Monday commissioned a new state-of-the art North West Secondary School in Mabaruma that will provide some 575 students with academic classes and vocational training.

As it moves towards outlawing corporal punishment with regard to children, the government, through the Ministry of Legal Affairs in collaboration with the Ministry of Education Schools Welfare Division is hosting a two-day Restorative Justice Training exercise with schools’ welfare officers and counsellors.

Three months after six-year-old Jeremiah Gustave was shot in his head at Charles Street, Charlestown, Georgetown, his condition continues to worsen as he remains hospitalised.

Randy Wiggins has been found guilty of manslaughter in the 2021 killing of Kevin Smith.

A 16-year-old girl of Region Two was stabbed several times about her body on Monday afternoon, by a man who was accused of raping her since she was 14 years old.

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) has characterised President Irfaan Ali’s recent address to the National Assembly as more of a campaign speech than a genuine policy initiative.

The Ministry of Public Works has denied the claim by the Linden Mayor and Town Council and published by this newspaper yesterday, that the access road at Nooitgedacht poses a toxic threat to residents of the area, though it has not yet conducted independent testing of samples.

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana.

The first general manager of the now-defunct Guyana National Cooperative Bank (GNCB) Dr Wilbert O Bascom passed away on Sunday in Miami, Florida, at the age of 87.

The Bureau of Statistics today said that it has noted recent “erroneous” claims made on social media suggesting that political interference is responsible for the delayed publication of the 2022 Population and Housing Census results and said it wished to provide the following response.

Linden Mayor Sharma Solomon has called for the immediate closure of the uncapped Nooitgedacht access road in view of concerns over new findings of unsafe levels of arsenic, zinc, nickel, and chromium there.

The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) yesterday unveiled its high-yielding rice variety GRDB 18, at Sebastian’s Farm, Nooten Zuil, East Coast Demerara.