Guyana News

Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn, has defended the appointment of Superintendent Krishna Ramana, formerly of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), to the new position as Commander of Regional Division 4C.

Raymond Rupnarine, a 35-year-old businessman of Lot 30  Second Avenue, Bartica, was charged with murder at about 10:45 am today when he appeared at the Bartica Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Crystal Lambert.

At about 6:20 am today, someone called the Vigilance Police Station and reported that a body was at Lusignan Golf Club.

With the Government of Guyana indicating its willingness to revise the Amerindian Act of 2006, several Indigenous district representatives are calling on the government to examine their Consultation Proposal and are disappointed that community consultations have started without including said proposal.

Deals made through the partnership created by Guyana with the United States Export-Import (EXIM) Bank last year are expected to be approved once US regulatory and other processes are completed, outgoing US Ambassador to Guyana Sarah-Ann Lynch has said.

APNU member, Carol Joseph, a resident of Hopetown, Berbice, through her attorneys-at-law at Dexter Todd and Associates Law Firm has filed an action in court challenging the powers of the President of Guyana to extend the tenure of the acting commissioner of police beyond the age of retirement.

A 10-month-old baby died after two cars collided at Dennis Street, Sophia yesterday.

The search for a 13-year-old student of the Mackenzie High School, Hassini Mack, who is believed to have drowned at the Coomacka Mines beach, Region Ten, on Tuesday afternoon is still ongoing.

A 38-year-old labourer of Third Avenue, Bartica, and his 18-year-old girlfriend of Second Avenue, Bartica, were yesterday morning shot outside the Paradise Night club located in Third Avenue, Bartica.

A 17-year-old Parika miner died in a mining pit accident on Tuesday afternoon at Cowpen Backdam, Puruni River  in Region Seven.

Stakeholders in the anti-money laundering architecture yesterday signed two co-operation memoranda, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said.

By Joseph Allen With the continued calls being made by the Indigenous community of Chinese Landing on the Government to evict a controversial miner from their lands, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo is insisting that government cannot act on the issue now and have mining activities stopped.

The Integrity Commission in a notice in yesterday’s Stabroek News reminded all specified persons in public life to submit their 2023 Financial Declarations by today.

The Ministry of Natural Resources yesterday said that it is addressing a recently identified issue with the timeline line graph feature as part of the Data Centre found on the ministry’s website of the Petroleum Management Programme.

The long-awaited National Toshaos Council (NTC) Secretariat was commissioned on Monday at its National Exhibition Centre, Sophia.

Some 170 tractors and trailers have been distributed by the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs to hinterland villages and Amerindian settlements across Guyana, the Department of Public Information (DPI) reported yesterday.

Fourteen students were granted bursaries through the Peter D’Aguiar’s Scholarship Bursary Awards.

Seon Clarke, 42, a caterer, of Lot 57 Bent Street, Wortmanville, Georgetown, appeared on Monday at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Rhondell Weever where he was charged with a cybercrime.

Police are investigating an armed robbery at around 7.34 pm last night on two cashiers at the Hong Yuang Supermarket located at Lusignan, East Coast Demerara.

`My words of encouragement are: talk, communicate, debate, and listen. You know it’s through conversations that we all grow and we all learn from each other, and political parties, government officials are no different than citizens.