Guyana News

Minister of Home Affairs,  Robeson Benn and Deputy Police Commissioner ‘Operations’, Ravindradat Budhram are currently attending the 2023 Conference of the Global Public Security Cooperation Forum (Lianyungang) (GPSCFL), which began on September 19 in Lianyungang, East China’s Jiangsu Province.

Exxon Mobil Corp. is lobbying the Biden administration to allow hydrogen produced from natural gas to qualify for some of the most lucrative subsidies available in the President’s climate law, pushing for billions of dollars in tax credits.

Members of the Guyana Police Force last evening conducted an intelligence-led operation at Grove Housing Scheme on the East Bank of Demerara, during which they recovered an AK-47 assault rifle with a magazine and arrested two men.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Dallas, Florida and New York will host matches of next year’s T20 World Cup, which the United States will co-host with West Indies, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said today.

As a scandal grows over the surreptitious attempt to cut disputed ExxonMobil costs, chartered accountant and attorney Christopher Ram has flayed the Ministry of Natural Resources for stating that the GRA is the competent authority to lead petroleum audits.

By Joseph Allen Residents along the Grove/ Diamond Public Road continue to complain about the deplorable state of the road and are calling on the authorities to intervene.

Twenty-five-year-old Akeem Dazzel, a miner, of Lot 27 Guyhoc, Tucville, Georgetown, appeared yesterday before Chief Magistrate (ag) Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court where he was charged with the capital offence of murder.

A Westminster, West Bank Demerara motorcyclist died at the Georgetown Public Hospital following an accident on the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) yesterday morning.

Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand yesterday commissioned the Doodnauth Hetram block at Queen’s College.

Guyana yesterday rejected Venezuela’s objections to this country’s auction on September 12 of offshore blocks for the purposes of oil exploration.

The Office of Prime Minister (OPM) Mark Phillips yesterday donated laptop computers to the Disabled People’s Network (DPN) of Region Five.

At about 12:40 hours yesterday, Police ranks were carrying out a ‘stop and search’ exercise on the Bamia Highway when one of the ranks stopped a Route 94 (Georgetown-Lethem) motor bus #BAE 5113.

After several psychiatric evaluations, a Corentyne fisherman who set two persons alight in a boat in 2011 stood trial at the High Court in Berbice after which he was found guilty of the murders of the men.

Region Six Chairman, David Armogan says that officials are awaiting a report on the findings from the investigation which was launched into the death of a 22-year-old paralyzed girl, Farzana Khan earlier this month following a visit to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital.

Yesterday marked a milestone for allottees of the new De Kinderen Housing Development in Region Three, as they were a part of the first batch to see their house lots and plant name posts on their lots.

Sixty-five-year-old Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara labourer, Goolcharran Shivcharran who was discovered in a drainage canal on Monday is believed to have drowned.

Twenty-year-old, Leslie Franklin, called ‘Bonichie’, of Belmont, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara, has been jailed for two years after pleading guilty to the offence of break and enter.

Sabrina Prettypaul, a 37-year-old businesswoman from Diamond, East Bank Demerara, appeared at the Diamond Magistrate’s Court before Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman, where she was charged with fraudulent misappropriation.

Nigel Glasgow, a 52-year-old unemployed man from Triumph, East Coast Demerara, was arrested on 2023-09-15 and charged yesterday with possession of  narcotics for the purpose of trafficking contrary to section 5(1)(a)(i) of the Narcotic Drug and Psychotropic Substance (Control) Amendment Act 10:10.

Deputy Superintendent of Police Omesh Arjune recently graduated from the Veer Narmad South Gujarat University in India, where he pursued a Master of Arts (MA) in Human Resource Management and Labour Relations, which he successfully completed with a first-class distinction.