Guyana News

Some 40,000 children under the age of four, along with twenty thousand parents/caregivers in Guyana, will soon benefit from quality Early Childhood Development (ECD) programmes and family support services, according to UNICEF Area Representa-tive for Guyana and Suri-name, Nicolas Pron.

Shameer Basika, a 29-year-old teacher from Cummings Lodge, Georgetown, was arrested on 2023-08-01 and charged on 2023-08-02 with assaulting a Peace Officer, contrary to Section 28 (b) of the Summary Jurisdiction Offence Act, Chapter 8:02.

A 31-year-old inmate of the Berbice prison who is currently serving a 41-month prison sentence, escaped from ‘gang duty’ on Friday after stating that he wished to defecate.

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) yesterday welcomed the decision taken by the Governments of The Bahamas and Jamaica to join Kenya to contribute to a multi-national force in Haiti to assist it to counter its security challenges.

The Vreed-en-Hoop Shorebase Inc. (VEHSI) has begun to advertise for more local service providers as it moves closer to its December completion date.

Early this morning, between 0400 hrs and 0600 hrs, a Traffic Enforcement Exercise was held on the Friendship Public Road, East Bank Demerara, targeting motor lorries.

Police are investigating the shooting death of Adviser to the Minister of Education, Olato Sam, age 53, of Lot 2811 Youth Place South Ruimveldt Park, Georgetown, which occurred at around 00:30 hrs this morning in the vicinity of Gold Rush Bar located at Plaisance Railway Embankment, East Coast Demerara.

The government yesterday approved massive hikes in the external and domestic debt ceilings – the second time in 30 months – signalling an aggressive borrowing campaign for massive infrastructural and other spending.

A Bara Cara pump attendant was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with the murder of Dhanraj Basdeo in 2014.

The Electronic Communications and Transaction Bill, which was laid in the National Assembly on July 20 by the Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce, Oneidge Walrond with the aim to establish the legal framework for the use and acceptance of electronic records and signatures was passed last evening.

Two miners were killed on Wednesday night at Moon-light Backdam, Kamarang, after the mining pit they were working in collapsed and buried them.

The  Chinese Landing Village Council yesterday said that it never asked government to stop all mining on its lands as some of its villagers earn their livelihoods this way and it continued to differ with the decision of the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs to dispatch a “fact-finding” mission in response to a resolution of the IACHR.

Twenty-two-year-old Ossaffo Chester, who was wanted by police in relation to murder committed on Gerald Sobers, turned himself in at the Cove and John Police Station yesterday afternoon.

Keenin Fraser was found with 27 pounds of cannabis sativa worth more than $11 million in his possession yesterday at Coomacka Mines Junction, during a roadblock exercise.

Based on recent predictions from the Hydrometeorological Office that the country will endure an extended dry season for the remainder of 2023, the Office of the Prime Minister has mandated that a National El Nino Preparedness and Planning Committee mobilize to anticipate the effects.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday received a courtesy visit from United States Congressman Richard Crawford at the Office of the President on Shiv Chanderpaul Drive.

The Ministry of Public Works yesterday reminded truck drivers to cover truck trays when transporting materials in order to prevent accidents.

Newfoundland and Labrador’s offshore petroleum regulator says nobody was injured in a potentially deadly accident on the deck of the Hibernia Platform last month.

A 33-year-old Beterverwagting (BV), East Coast Demerara taxi driver was yesterday arrested after he was found with 47.3 grams of suspected cannabis.