Guyana News

A Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Executive aircraft, a Super KingAir 350, arrived at the Eugene F Correia International Airport at approximately 1730 hours yesterday.

MovieTowne Guyana on Friday announced that it will be opening yet another eatery, this time in the form of a Brazilian/Texan restaurant.

Attorney General Anil Nandlall met a team from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Tuesday and among the matters discussed was reducing the backlog of criminal cases.

Minister of Amerindian Affairs, Pauline Sukhai yesterday engaged families of those who perished in the Mahdia dormitory tragedy as well survivors from Micobie and El Paso in Region Eight.

The Department of Education Georgetown announced on Thursday, the launch of the first phase of its Work- Study Attachment for 2023, a release from the Ministry of Education stated yesterday.

The Black Entrepreneurs Association is continuing plans for its Emancipation Pitch competition set for August 5th.

Two Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) officers are under investigation by the Guyana Police Force.

ExxonMobil and its partners operating in Guyana’s Stabroek block have been granted a year’s extension for exploration in the block, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday confirmed.

A motorcyclist and his pillion rider died after an accident on the Number 68 Public Road, Corentyne, Berbice, on Tuesday morning.

Massy Motors, in collaboration with SAIC Motors yesterday officially launched Morris Garage (MG) Motors in Guyana.

Dr Christopher Arif Bulkan was yesterday elected a Commissioner on the Inter-American Com-mission on Human Rights (IACHR) for a four-year period from 2024-2027.

Michael Corrica, a man wanted by police since 2007 for the murder of gold miner, Oswald Joris, was yesterday deported from France and is to be charged shortly.

Ten members of Red Thread Women’s Centre yesterday  morning staged a protest in front of the Guyana Police Force Headquarters in Kingston, Georgetown.

Driver, Mark Samuels, is now awaiting sentencing after being found guilty of raping a 13-year-old girl in January of 2021.

John Hess, the Chief Executive Officer of American oil company Hess says that a headline in yesterday’s Kaieteur News stating that President Irfaan Ali had assured him of a stay in a court case was misleading.

Twenty-five-year-old Akeem Lowe was yesterday charged with the rape of a child under 16 years.

By Mia Anthony An investigation has commenced into what occurred in the wee hours of Tuesday when former national power lifter, Rawndel Clementson died at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre according to a source at the facility.

Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance, Gail Teixeira, says that developed countries need to play a greater role in tackling migration.

Shadow Minister of Home Affairs, Geeta Chandan Edmond yesterday pilloried the government for its failure to establish the promised Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the Mahdia dormitory fire that claimed 20 lives.

The Guyana Court of Appeal has reserved its ruling regarding whether it will grant an application by the Attorney General to be added as a party in the appeal filed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in its challenge to the High Court order that it enforce the liability clause in permits for ExxonMobil’s offshore oil operations here.