Guyana News

As the probe into the $50m robbery committed at the Regional Democratic Council of Region Six on Wednesday morning continues, the Guyana Police Force yesterday said that investigators are waiting to question the hospitalized suspect.

Yesterday the Ministerial Taskforce on Trafficking in Persons, supporting agencies, and the Organisation for American States (OAS) held a roundtable discussion on issues related to Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling.

By Joseph Allen Two months after the Bamia Primary School should have been completed under a controversial contract given to entertainers and sportsmen, the building has no roof and the RDC says  it would have terminated the deal  if the decision was up to it.

A nine-year-old Enterprise Primary School pupil was struck down and killed while on his way to church yesterday morning by a teen driver who had allegedly taken his father’s car without his permission.

The Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) has identified several areas that Guyana needs to address to bolster its money laundering and combatting terrorism fight, key among them is equipping the Ministry of Home Affairs with the resources needed.

Headteachers at all schools will soon be able to focus on running their respective institutions effectively as they will no longer be required to teach, according to a circular published on Wednesday by the Ministry of Education, which also indicated that this and other changes outlined will be implemented gradually.

EKAA HRIM Earth Resources, a new mining company which opened a US$20 million quarry in Batavia, Region Seven, has committed to making quarterly lease payments on three different sections of the 1,080 acres of land in the village, along with several other benefits.

Stabroek News spoke to members of the public in the areas of Amelia’s Ward and Mackenzie in Linden, Region Ten about the rising cost of living and how it is affecting them.

Three of Guyana’s top performers at the 2023 Carib-bean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations, who all attended Queen’s College (QC) and spoke with this newspaper last month, are currently moving ahead with other academic pursuits.

Poet and entrepreneur Nia Williams is aiming to add attorney-at-law to her list of accomplishments.

Stating that at the midpoint of the agenda of 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, more than 50% of Guyana’s targets are off track, a portion of which are in reverse and worse there is a US$4 trillion financing gap for implementation, double to what it was in 2015, Prime Minister Mark Phillps has suggested that the application of science, technology and innovation could be the solution to challenges such as food security, poverty alleviation, and climate change.

It was last-minute notice, but a call from the Ministry of Labour jolted Winston Alexander’s creative spirit into action.

The parent whose child was recently involved in a fight at the New Campbellville Secondary School that dominated several social media platforms is calling for action to be taken since her son suffered a series of blackouts and seizures.

Eighteen people on Thursday graduated from a Geospatial Capacity Building Programme, which was a joint initiative facilitated by the University of Guyana (UG) and SERVIR- Amazonia at the UG Education Lecture Theatre, Turkeyen Campus.

William Niewenkirk and Marlon Belle appeared on Friday at the Georgetown Magistrates Court before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly where they were both charged with using abusive language.

Richard Charles of Robb Street, Bourda, Georgetown, appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates Court before Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus on Monday last, charged with illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition.

An inquest has been ordered by the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) into the death of 13-year-old Rovin Williams who fell from his employer’s pickup on June 12th this year.

A Guyanese woman has been found murdered inside the luxury Los Angeles apartment she had been living in for just one month, cops said, according to a report in the New York Post.

The highest ranking Democrat in the US House and Brooklyn Congressman, Hakeem Jeffries on Thursday met with President Irfaan Ali and his delegation in Washington and stressed the need for an inclusive society here and for the government and the opposition to work together.

The main opposition grouping, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) yesterday called for the removal of Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo from the oil and gas portfolio following confusion over a key audit which saw the Ministry of Natural Resources going beyond what had been  recommended by the Guyana Revenue Authority.