Guyana News

An East Canje Berbice teenager died around 7 pm yesterday after he was reportedly stabbed. 

Subsequent to attaining a seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), the Government of Guyana through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs & International Cooperation on Friday engaged in a technical consultation on UNSC matters with representatives from State Department of the United States of America.

Two men armed with guns invaded the Buckanair Bar located along the Smithfield Public Road just after midnight on Friday and robbed the owner, who was tied up and assaulted during the incident, of over $500,000 in cash and a large amount of gold jewellery.

The Guyana Forensic Science Laboratory (GFSL) has come in for criticism for failing to produce the results of a toxicology test some four months after a Regent Street  murder.

The Mahdia Fire Station in Region Eight has received new fire prevention equipment to boost its capacity, Officer in Charge Ryan Scott told commissioners inquiring into the blaze in May that claimed 20 lives.

Housing and Water Minister, Collin Croal on Friday announced that some 800 allottees within the Cummings Lodge, 1767 Development will have access to their land, in time for Christmas.

EU Ambassador René van Nes on Friday called for the statutes of international law to be respected, in relation to Venezuela’s proposed referendum on Essequibo and Guyana’s request for provisional measures, which the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will hear on November 14.

Without naming him, the University of Guyana (UG) on Friday expressed dismay at what it deemed an inappropriate conversation, during a lecture by attorney-at-law Christopher Ram, a recording of which has been circulated on Facebook.

A behemoth of architectural ambition is currently rising on the cityscape at   Quamina and Waterloo streets.

The University of Guyana (UG) is hosting a series of actions in support of Guyana’s security personnel and in solidarity with what it refers to as “Guyana’s right to peace within its own borders,” a release from the university stated on Friday.

The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry Limited (GBTI) raised $3.7m in the wake of the Mahdia Dormitory fire in May that claimed 20 lives and on Friday handed over the money to the Civil Defence Commission (CDC).

The Ministry of Labour’s Occupational Safety and Health Department (OSH) is still investigating two workplace fatalities at Tepui Group and Industrial Fabrications Incorporated (InFab Inc) Seventeen-year-old Javid Shaw was a junior site worker of InFab.

Inspector Castello, Sergeant Reynolds and other Police ranks, along with several representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), on Friday  conducted a sensitisation exercise for noise nuisance on the East Coast of Demerara.

The Ministry of Education’s Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Unit on Friday opened the Visual Arts Career Exhibition and Fair.

On Friday evening, the US Embassy hosted a reception to formally welcome US Ambassador Nicole D.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) and the Ministry of Agriculture yesterday teamed up for a Farmers Market on the lawns outside Base Camp Ayanganna Playfield.

Joshua Creed appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Friday before Magistrate Leron Daly where he was charged with robbery.

The 21-year-old security guard of ‘B’ Field, Sophia, Georgetown who was shot in his right leg on October 18 after he and two other persons were involved in an attempted robbery at a Success Restaurant was yesterday discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital, Regional Commander 4 ‘C’, Senior Superintendent Khali Pareshram stated.

Today marks the first of three outreaches by the National Insurance Scheme slated to be held in the US over the weekend, and it provides an opportunity for the Guyanese diaspora to interact directly with the scheme to have their issues addressed and questions answered, a statement from the Ministry of Finance said.

Twenty-three-year-old, Joseph Fiffee was shot dead at Annandale, East Coast Demerara following a reported armed confrontation with the police.