Guyana News

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.

Twenty-nine persons from the Bureau of Statistics, Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Agriculture recently participated in a training exercise to measure the severity of food insecurity at the household and/or individual level in a given population.

The Guyana Power and Light’s (GPL) Testing Laboratory yesterday became the 25th lab to be certified by the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS).

Rum producers have urged  Caricom to facilitate the expansion of new markets for premium  exports.

Yesterday, the Enabling Gender Responsive Disaster Recovery, Climate and Environmental Resilience in the Caribbean (EnGenDER) project of UNDP-Guyana with support from Canada donated 125 electronic tablets to the Special Education Needs/Disability (SEND) department of the Ministry of Education.

Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) is celebrating its milestone of reaching 150,000 households in Guyana with its fibre service.

A Region 9 official was on Wednesday arrested by police in relations to a rape allegation made against him.

Forty-year-old Shane Hopkinson appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Friday, before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly where he was charged with possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.

Quincy Austin appeared at the George-town Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly to answer to the charge of possession of narcotics to which he pleaded not guilty.