Guyana News

(Jamaica Gleaner) Despite a call by Prime Minister (PM) Andrew Holness for Government lawmakers to halt the broadside against Jamaica’s single anti-corruption body, Abka Fitz-Henley, the freshly minted senator, on Friday took aim at the entity, accusing it of partisan action against the administration.

Premium Eats is a newly branded “hypermarket” at Leonora, West Coast Demerara offering grocery, household, electrical and clothing items under one roof.

Warren Bentick, a taxi driver appeared at the George-town Magistrate’s Court before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly on Friday to answer to a charge of unlawful restraint that was read to him and which he denied.

Thirty-seven-year-old Patrick Waldron, of Lot 134 Carder Hill, New Amsterdam, Berbice, appeared at the George-town Magistrate’s Court on Friday before acting Chief Magistrate Sherdel-Isaacs Marcus to answer to the charge of illegal possession of ammunition.

A Williamsburg, Corentyne family is now living in fear after bandits attacked their premises earlier this month injuring the owner of the house and leaving the family of three in a state of fright.

President Irfaan Ali was on Friday presented with a table made from several species of Guyana’s wood by Lindener Troy Roberts at the Office of the President on Shiv Chanderpaul Drive, a release from the Office of the President said.

Artificial Insemination (AI) which is the placement of semen suspension into the female Reproductive tract was conducted on 66 animals at Aranaputa, North Rupununi by Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA)  staff on 9th -10th June, 2023.

Police are investigating a wounding incident that took place at Wiruni Village, Upper Berbice River on Thursday around 5:30 pm following an argument over bread.

Small business owners from across the country have commended the management training enabled by the Small Business Bureau (SBB).

Prime Minister  Mark Phillips was the Guest of Honour of the Guyana Day: Diaspora Outreach on Friday in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Guyana Police Force is probing the killing of a 19-year-old construction worker of Laing Avenue squatting area and the burning of a house allegedly in retaliation for the death.

Guyana is postponing by about one month its first offshore oil blocks auction as the country finalizes new terms of the country’s oil and gas regulatory framework, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo told Reuters yesterday.

Twenty-five-year-old Brian Morrison, a soldier of Lot 841 Crane Housing Scheme, West Coast Demerara was  yesterday charged with murdering Tevon Daymon at the Guyana Defence Force’s Camp Stephenson, Timehri on Monday, June 12.

Taking a jab at the opposition over its analysis of the recently concluded Local Government Elections, President Irfaan Ali last evening said his party is already thinking ahead of projects that can advance the lives of Guyanese and he signalled the imminent establishment of the long-promised One Guyana Commission.

Four teenaged boys who were accused of setting fire to the St.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) on Wednesday made a large  narcotics bust on the East Bank Demerara (EBD) of over 113 pounds and coming in at a market value of over $18 million.

Simon McBean, Commander of Georgetown, has told Stabroek News that the father of 38-year-old Dimitri Deonauth, who was arrested for questioning in relation to his son’s death, was released on bail as police continue to investigate.

Construction has started on an $847m water treatment plant at Parika, East Bank Essequibo that will serve some 12,000 residents from Ruby, going all the way to St Lawrence when completed in 2024.

Residents of Acme Housing Scheme and Railway Embankment in Vergenoegen, Region Three will soon receive land titles as part of efforts to regularise the areas.

A 70-year-old man was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with murdering another resident of the Dharm Shala during an attack at the Fort Canje facility in Berbice.