Guyana News

The Terms of Reference (ToR) for the long-awaited inquiry into the Mahdia dormitory tragedy that claimed 20 lives requires it to inquire into and report on the “events and circumstances leading up to and causes of the Mahdia dorm fire on the night of May 20th, 2023”.

Thirty-four-year-old Anthony La Rose called ‘Roodhoo’, a father of two, of Lot 280 Kuru Kururu, Linden- Soesdyke High-way, appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Chief Magistrate (ag) Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus to answer to the capital offence of murder.

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair and his wife, Cherie Blair, of the women’s empowerment non-profit organisation, the Cherie Blair Foundation, are expected to visit Guyana next week, a top government official has confirmed.

Terrence Sam, known as ‘Poke Eye’, a 51-year-old security guard of Hasling-ton, East Coast Demerara was on Tuesday charged with the murder of Eric Fraser.

Prime Minister Mark Phillips yesterday said that the International Decade for People of African Descent represents a significant global effort towards achieving racial justice, equality, and empowerment.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday announced a major shuffling of permanent secretaries, just over three years after his government took office and after the resignation of a minister who was at the centre of a rape probe.

Two men who were this week arrested in Black Bush Polder in connection to a murder committed in Paramaribo, Suriname last Friday have since been handed over to the Suriname authorities to face charges in that country.

Universal Health Care Laboratory of Grove, East Bank Demerara, has become the thirtieth laboratory to be certified by the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS).

The US Embassy yesterday announced the recipient of the 2023 Fulbright Scholarship Award. Renea

Mobile Money Guyana (mmg), on Wednesday partnered with the Ministry of Home Affairs to add the Guyana Fire Service and the Guyana Prison Service as billers on the platform. 

Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony, accompanied by the Regional Health Officer, Dr Gavinash Persaud, yesterday commissioned the Mahaica Dental Clinic in the compound of the Mahaica Health Centre, Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica).

Thirty-year-old Allan Stephen, a mechanic and driver of 329 Tabatinga, Lethem, appeared at the Diamond/Grove Magis-trate’s Court yesterday before Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman on a charge of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.

An accident yesterday involving a car and a bus at the corner of George and D’Urban streets has resulted in injuries to a mother and daughter who were vending there.

Romel Alonzo, 22, (address not stated), appeared virtually at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Delon Bess where he was sentenced to two years in prison after being charged with possession of an unlicensed firearm.

A 46-year-old labourer of Good Hope, was found with 200 grams of marijuana yesterday at a hotel in Parika during an intelligence-led operation by police ranks.

President Irfaan Ali today  announced the following appointments of Permanent Secretaries in eight Government Ministries.

The Moruca District Council (MDC) says it stands in solidarity with the residents of the village of Chinese Landing in Region One and is calling on the government to implement the recent requests of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) concerning the community. 

Pandit Tharun Balgobin yesterday walked out of the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court as a free man after the murder charge against him was discharged.

Deputy Premier of the British Virgin Islands (BVI), Lorna Smith on Tuesday encouraged Guyanese residing in the BVI to return home to support the ongoing transformation of the country’s oil and non-oil sectors and to ease the county’s labour shortage.

The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) yesterday said that it has concluded its investigations into the circumstances that led to an emergency landing of a FlyAlways aircraft on Monday and the correct procedures were followed.