Guyana News

Ishmael Junior, a 29-year-old man from Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara, was arrested on Thursday by Police ranks on mobile patrol duties in the Providence Station district.

The police are trying to identify a suspected burglar caught on camera at Turkeyen on the East Coast of Demerara.

Keith Williams, a porter, appeared yesterday before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court where he was charged with using threatening language.

The Ministry of Education today announced an initiative to provide grants to teachers across the country to assist with procuring classroom resources; the aim being to bridge educational disparities.

Government pathologist Dr Nehaul Singh and three other persons, including two of his staff, were injured yesterday afternoon after the vehicle they were in lost control and slammed into a utility pole at Huis t’ Dieren Public Road, Essequibo Coast.

In a major climbdown, the government last night accepted that ExxonMobil and partners overstated their expenses for the period 1999 to 2017.

Despite publicly acknowledging the harmful effects of burning fossil fuel and its contribution to climate change in 2006, behind closed doors ExxonMobil was engaged in attempts to diminish public concerns and even obfuscate scientific findings that might negatively impact the oil and gas industry and the company’s bottom line.

Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony yesterday commissioned digital X-ray systems at the New Amsterdam, Port Mourant and Mibicuri hospitals in Region Six.

The bodies of two men were found yesterday after a boat mishap on Tuesday in the Upper Cuyuni River in the vicinity of Kurutuku Village, Region Seven.

A meeting yesterday in Washington between President Irfaan Ali and the US Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) focussed on this country’s development agenda and was highly informative and most welcomed, the Head of State says.

The six persons who were charged with conspiracy to facilitate the escape of death row prisoner, Royden Williams, known as ‘Smallie’, have all pleaded not guilty The defendants are former head of security at the Mazaruni Prison, Alexander Hopkinson; Rajmohan Autor known as ‘Chico’, 48, a businessman of Parika Outfall; Frangeliz Jugandry Flores Perez, 28, a Venezuelan of Alexander Street, Kitty; Omar Witherspoon, a prison officer of Stanley-town, New Amsterdam; Conroy Hosannah, a prison officer of Fort Ordnance Housing Scheme, East Canje, Berbice; and Oldfield Romulus, 50, a prison officer of Cumberland Village, East Canje, Berbice.

A 33-year-old fisherman, Anthony Budram of Lot 21 Mosquito Hall, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara was charged yesterday with setting fire last Saturday to Lot 79 Mosquito Hall, Mahaica, the abode of a social media personality.

Concerns over the effects of an oil spill in the Stabroek Block on marine life, especially fish, on Wednesday dominated ExxonMobil’s public meeting in Georgetown.

Yesterday, contracts worth some $182 million were signed to undertake Phase Two of the rehabilitation works on a number of roadways in the Albouystown and Castello Housing Scheme area in Georgetown.

Forty-six-year-old Vivendra Balgobin reappeared before Magistrate Crystal Lambert at the Bartica Magistrate’s Court yesterday and was granted $800,000 bail on the charge of attempted murder against Conroy Cox, aged thirty-eight, and Lovell Douglas, aged eighteen.

Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill met with residents yesterday who were engaged in a protest at Kuru Kuru on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway concerning a deteriorating road that is earmarked for completion.

Amid suggestions that state-run buses could help to fill a transportation gap here, Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill says there are no such discussions occurring in government.

As part of its ongoing efforts to bring awareness to the issues of suicide and mental health challenges, the Massy Group is collaborating with the Ministry of Education’s Allied Arts Unit, and several local actors to host a theatrical performance catering specifically to secondary school students.

The police today said that they are probing the beating to death of Bibi  Shirah Bhagpattie, 53, of Block 42 Amelia’s Ward, Linden.

Bandits yesterday morning stormed the Region Six compound and carted  off $50m in cash which was to be paid to part-time workers and hours after one of the suspects was shot dead at Heathburn and two persons arrested.