Guyana News

By Antonio Dey Alma Wells, 53, of Kaneville, East Bank Demerara died at approximately 6:15 am yesterday while travelling to Georgetown from Mabaruma on the MV Ma Lisha, her family told Stabroek News.

By Shabna Rahman The police believe that 29-year-old Shannen Obermulla-Mohamed of Parika, East Bank Essequibo was beaten to death on Tuesday and her body burned.

The police last night issued another bulletin for Keon David in connection with the July 29th 2019 murder of Kurt Anthony Duncan at Seeta’s Bar.

A fire of unknown origin that started early yesterday morning, destroyed a two-storey building housing an auto spares business situated at lots 446-447 Annandale on the East Coast of Demerara.

A section of the Bartica stelling that was slated to be rehabilitated, yesterday collapsed following high winds and heavy rainfall.  

The Bank of Guyana (BoG) has written the Guyana Sugar Corporation calling on it to pass on $420m in contributions from workers that are intended for their STEPS pension scheme.

Finding that a challenge was wrongly brought against Head of the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA), Mahender Sharma and Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Natural Resources Joslyn McKenzie; when it should instead have been filed against the environmental appeals board on which they sit, the entire case was thrown out.

In what will now be his final bid to evade paying former government Minister Annette Ferguson damages for libel, Vice President (VP) Bharrat Jagdeo has now taken his challenge to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).

`We don’t get involved in the details of these contracts. We don’t certainly get involved in the details of any business.

Following a shooting incident at Eteringbang in Region Seven, allegedly involving the Venezuelan ‘Sindicatos Gang’, concerns have risen again among residents that their security is not getting the type of attention needed but the police commander insists that the situation remains under control. 

Akeem Booker, 28, of ‘Container City’,  West Ruimveldt, Georgetown, appeared yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court before Chief Magistrate (ag) Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus where he was charged with the theft of a car.

A sales clerk attached to Silvie’s Industrial Solutions in Region Two and his family of six are now homeless after his house was completely gutted by fire yesterday at around 9 am. 

The Mahdia dormitory fire Commission of Inquiry (CoI) will continue with its work, despite a request from attorney-at-law Dexter Todd for proceedings to be halted since the court matter involving his client is still to be concluded, Commission Secretary, Javed Shadick, told Stabroek News yesterday.

Some 150 persons are set to benefit health wise from a project that seeks to tackle the incidence of chronic health conditions.

A Parika woman is believed to have been murdered last night and her body set afire.

By Joseph Allen Inaugurating  a $200m primary  at Tuschen, President Irfaan Ali yesterday declared that schools will have greater autonomy to manage their affairs and cut bureaucracy.

The bodies of two men were found floating in the Essequibo River yesterday, hours after they went missing and their boat was found adrift with the engine idling.

A Nigg man yesterday died after he collided head-on with a motor lorry along the Warren Public Road and his motorcycle burst into flames.

The day is drawing closer when cell phone users in Guyana will be able to switch service providers without changing their telephone numbers.

A 71-year-old pensioner died yesterday morning in an accident at Zealand Public Road, Mahaicony, after his motorcycle ran into a car.