Guyana News

Fifteen new tourism products were launched yesterday by the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA).

President Irfaan Ali and senior members of his Government held bilateral discussions yesterday with Saudi Arabia’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Climate Envoy, Adel Ahmed al-Jubeir and his team at State House.

One of two men who had been accused of raping a 15-year-old girl, is now awaiting sentencing after a jury found him guilty as charged of sexually assaulting the teenager back in 2020.

Aleebia London, a 27-year-old unemployed man from Second Street, Kaneville, East Bank Demerara was yesterday remanded to prison over  a robbery at a GTT outlet.

Six years after the allegation had been levelled against him, Osafo Swain has been cleared of a charge of attempting to take the life of Ewart Blair, who he was alleged to have shot.

High winds recently damaged the roof of the Kurupukari Police Outpost, prompting a Men On Mission (MOM) team comprising various stakeholders to rebuild the roof, a release from the Guyana Police Force (GPF) said.

The case against a Vigilance Squatting Area man accused of firing a gun with intent at a woman was yesterday dismissed after the complainant said she did not wish to proceed.

At about 2 yesterday afternoon, acting on information received, Sergeant Singh and other Police ranks from Regional Division 4B went to Timehri, East Bank Demerara, where they found a white Toyota Premio motor car (Registration # PPP 5742), abandoned near a cemetery, with everything intact.

Chartered accountant and attorney Christopher Ram has accused ExxonMobil of engaging in dodgy accounting pertaining to sums received from oil company, Shell and its current partners, CNOOC and Hess.

A statement from the Guyana Police Force follows:The Guyana Police Force would like to apologise to Member of Parliament Mr David Patterson, whose name inadvertently remained on an Immigration Department’s watchlist.

Guyana is restating its position that it will not re-enter bilateral talks with Venezuela on the border controversy but will rely on the World Court as the venue for resolution as decided on under the 1966 Geneva Agreement.

The Sister Hazel Campayne Block at the St Rose’s High School was yesterday commissioned by Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand.

The Ministry of Labour through its Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Department is investigating the workplace fatality involving 17-year-old Javid Shaw, junior site worker of Industrial Fabri-cations Incorporated (InFab Inc).

The car that is believed to have been involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident along the Coldingen Public Road, East Coast Demerara on Friday near Chico Ramas gas station was tracked down by the police yesterday morning.

A vagrant (name unknown) died in an accident on Monday evening at the intersection of Avenue of Republic & Regent Street in Georgetown.

“In ten years from now, Guyana will not be the same,” Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat, proclaimed yesterday during the opening of the new Shell Gas Station located at Enmore, East Coast Demerara.

Persons who have been allocated residential lots Phase 4 and 5, Tract CHPA (Poke Bridge), Lethem will soon have access to their lands as infrastructure works are almost at an end.

Well-known People’s National Congress Reform member and former head of the Guyana Water Incorporated, Richard Van West-Charles, has been nominated as Guyana’s ambassador to Venezuela, an act which government says is testament to its commitment to inclusion. 

Gregory WickhamFour days after a fire broke out in a room at the Ramada Princess Hotel and Casino in Providence, East Bank Demerara, its origin is yet to be determined but according to the Fire Chief, Gregory Wickham that report is expected to be completed today. 

Lawernce Vanlewin, who was arrested after a shootout on September 13 following the $50m heist at the Regional Democratic Council of Region Six, was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with simple larceny in another matter.