Guyana News

Spanning sixteen years, the long battle in the courts has finally come to an end for former dismissed manager of the New Building Society (NBS), Maurice Arjoon, who has been awarded his pension and other benefits in full.

Bibi Sharima-Gopaul, who had been found guilty of murdering her daughter Neesa Gopaul, 16,  in 2010 has been released from jail and the Guyana Prison Service is expected to issue a release on the matter “shortly”.

Georgetown’s Mayor Alfred Mentore on Monday described President Irfaan Ali’s comment that “waiting on City Council to get works done is hopeless,” as “disrespectful to local democracy and an insult to the separation of powers”.

The family of a 32-year-old motorcyclist of Lot 1578 Aubrey Barker Road, South Ruimveldt who died yesterday on the Railway Embankment Road at Triumph is calling for the trucking company to accept full responsibility for what happened.

Police conducted an intelligence-led operation yesterday in New Amsterdam, Berbice which led to a major drug bust and the recovery of a shotgun and several rounds of ammunition.

Twenty-eight-year-old Clifford Veira of Middle Road, La Penitence, Georgetown, appeared yesterday before acting Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court where he was charged with assault causing actual bodily harm.

A release from the Ministry of Home affairs yesterday informed that its minister, Robeson Benn, accompanied by Minister of Natural Resources, Vickram Bharrat, and Minister of Housing and Water, Collin Croal, led an outreach on Tuesday, to the mining community of Imbaimadai, in Region Seven.

Detectives are probing an attack which has left 26-year-old Jasoda Gocool of Herstelling Sea Dam, East Bank Demerara in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Bibi Sharima-Gopaul, who had been found guilty of murdering her daughter Neesa Gopaul in 2010 has been released from jail and the Guyana Prison Service is expected to issue a release on the matter “shortly”.

Police are investigating a fatal accident which occurred at around 1.15 am today on the railway embankment road at Triumph,  East Coast Demerara.

Khamalnarine Jaggernauth, a 24-year-old barber of Unity Village, East Coast Demerara, was arrested and charged yesterday by ranks of Mahaica Police Station with attempted murder.

Gobind’s Variety Store and Cambio at 96 Regent Street, Georgetown has voluntarily surrendered its licence to carry on the business of buying and selling of foreign currency.

Demerara Bank Limited (DBL) has registered a whopping after-tax profit of $4.06b for the financial year ended September 30, 2023 compared to $2.95b last year, an increase of 37.5%.

The Ministry of Education (MoE) last month in a circular to teachers, announced changes to the policies that guide subjects offered in grades 10 and 11 in secondary schools.

In his address to parliament on Monday reaffirming support for the 1899 arbitral award, Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton strongly criticised a “Caribbean politician” who recently called for Guyana and Venezuela to maintain the region as a zone of peace following the tensions between the two over a referendum on Essequibo that is to be held by Caracas on December 3rd.

The new Arthurville Primary School on the island of Wakenaam was commissioned yesterday by President Irfaan Ali and the  Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand.

Rovin James of Charity Extension Scheme, Essequibo Coast, appeared at the Matthews Ridge Magistrate’s Court on Monday before Magistrate Dylon Bess, where the charge of ‘Causing Death by Dangerous Driving’ was read to him.

The Ethnic Relations Commission is greatly concerned about public events that bring disrepute to religious holidays and observances they attach themselves to.

Mahendra Surujpersaud, 20, of Lot 22 Agriculture Road, Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara, yesterday appeared before Magistrate Alicia George at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court where he was charged with causing death by dangerous driving.

Speaking at the Conference of American Armies (CAA) in Brazil, Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force, Brigadier Omar Khan has called for a renewed commitment to peace and democracy.