Guyana News

A Palmyra, Corentyne businessman was on Monday evening placed into custody following the discovery of a bond of illegal liquor at his business premises.

Forty-six-year-old Stephen Rodrigues was yesterday slapped with a 12-month jail sentence after chopping a man, causing him to be hospitalized.

An application by a Chinese national for the operation of a medical clinic on Mandela Avenue, Georgetown, has received the green light from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Clarel Darel appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly where she was charged with two counts of damage to property.

President Irfaan Ali arrived yesterday in Nassau, The Bahamas for the US-Caribbean Leaders Meeting set for today with US Vice President, Kamala Harris.

Sixteen BOSAI employees on the Joint Workplace Safety and Health Committee in Linden, benefited from a three-day Joint Occupational Safety and Health (OSH), and the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) Training Programme.

Robert Lewis appeared at the Georgetown Magis-trate’s Court yesterday before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly to answer to the charge of theft.

A man appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly to answer to the charge of robbery.

The police are investigating an alleged unlawful wounding committed on 43-year-old labourer Doris Tudor attached to the Quarter Master Stores located on Barrack Street, Eve Leary, Georgetown.

The body of Terry La Cruz who was involved in a river mishap with a boat piloted by his father on 2023-06-04 in the Aruka River, North West District, was recovered yesterday morning and is currently at the Mabaruma Hospital awaiting an autopsy.

On 2023-06-07 at about 10:45 hours, acting on information received, a party of police were on patrol duty at Plaisance Railway Embankment ECD when a Toyota Axio bearing registration number PAD 8967 driven by a 29-year-old of Plaisance, ECD was intercepted.

Following the seizure of a quantity of narcotics (664 grams of cannabis and 18 grams of cocaine) on 2023-06-05 at Itaballi Landing, Mazaruni River; the accused, 64- year-old Earl Scott, of Lot 43 Howes Street Charlestown Georgetown – appeared before Magistrate Christel Lambert at the Bartica Magistrate’s Court on 2023-06-07.

Two children, ages three and nine died this afternoon in a fire at Belmont, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara.

Senior Minister in the Office of the President with responsibility for finance, Dr.

While highlighting a staff shortage, personnel at all 24 dormitories across Guyana pointed out during a UNICEF study last year that students at the facilities needed health and behavioural counselling.

An Albouystown man who broke into a Brickdam house on Monday night was fatally stabbed during a confrontation with one of the occupants.

President Irfaan Ali and the Office of the Leader of the Opposition yesterday lauded Guyana’s election as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council for 2024-2025.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce & Industry (GCCI)  yesterday said that it’s high time the Canadian government includes Guyana on the list of Latin American and Caribbean states whose citizens do not have to acquire a visa to enter the North American country.

Two person are in custody pending investigation as approximately 223 kilogrammes of cannabis was found on Monday by Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) officers during an operation in the vicinity of a Koker located in Number 65 Village, Corentyne, Berbice.

Ex city policeman Clifton Pellew, who had been accused of raping a juvenile, has had the charge against him discontinued after the now-adult complainant indicated to the court that he doesn’t want the case to proceed.