Guyana News

An Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam woman was today remanded to prison after she was charged with her husband’s murder following her reported confession to investigators in Region Six that the victim discovered her cheating and began nagging at her and as such she decided to poison him.

President  Irfaan Ali departed for Brasilia, Brazil this morning to participate in the Meeting of the Presidents of South American Countries tomorrow.

A 15-year-old girl was today charged with the murder of 19 children who died after the May 21st blaze at the female dormitory of the Mahdia Secondary School.

The police said yesterday that members of the Joint Services fatally shot a man who was wanted in connection with assisting notorious death-row prison escapee Mark Royden Williams, while they were transporting him on a trail at St Mary’s Logging Area,  Essequibo River, about 58 miles south of Bartica.

Mining operations and other livelihood practices in some sections of Middle Mazaruni, Region Seven have come to a standstill as flooding has returned.

As Guyana prepares for its Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) assessment later this year, Attorney General Anil Nandlall says that three draft pieces of legislation aiming to strengthen this country’s regulatory architecture will soon be presented to the National Assembly.

Self-confessed drug trafficker Barry Dataram was recently granted US$500,000 bail by Magistrate Judge Lois Bloom and he is now confined to home detention in the US.

The increasing presence of sargassum seaweed on Guyana’s coast has put fishermen in further turmoil.

The Office of Director of Public Prosecu-tions has advised that charges be instituted against the teenager who allegedly set the fire that destroyed the Mahdia Secondary School dormitory, leaving 19 children dead.

Davendra Rampersaud, the pharmaceutical supplier who was freed last year of supplying the Ministry of Health (MOH) with expired HIV test kits and is now facing a six-count indictment in the US, was granted US$60,000 bail on the same day he pleaded guilty to three counts of the six-count indictment.

Commander of Regional Police Division 4 ‘C’, Senior Superintendent Khali Pareshram said on Saturday that the murder of Choorandan Chetram (Reid), 44, of Lot 101 Lusignan, East Coast Demerara, was  still under investigation by the police.

Interviews and photos by Subhana Shiwmangal Stabroek News spoke to members of the public in the Better Hope East Coast Demerara area about the rising cost of living and how it is affecting them.

The construction of the proposed four-lane Wismar/Mackenzie Bridge is to be funded under the US$200 million financial agreement with the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB).

The police are seeking legal advice as regards the Rupert Craig Highway crash on April 4 that claimed the life of Kissoondai Sewratan, 69, of  La Bonne Intention (LBI).

  Earlier today,  ranks of the Joint Services were continuing their search for notorious convicted ‘death row’ prison escapee, Mark Royden Williams,  along with his accomplices, along the St Mary’s Quarry Area.

Work on the estimated US$1 billion gas-to-energy project is forging ahead as pipes to be laid are in the country and will be installed from offshore coming inwards to Wales on the west bank of the Demerara River, even as administrative work on ExxonMobil’s Final Investment Decision wraps up.

Political party, A New and United Guyana (ANUG) has expressed the view that blame for the deadly Mahdia dormitory fire could be laid squarely on incompetence and says ministers must be held accountable.

Acres of mangroves protected by the Laws of Guyana have been ripped out  from the west bank of the Demerara River to pave the way for the development of a second oil and gas shore base  in the region.

By Joseph Allen With Local Government Elections (LGE) set for June 12, the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) for the first time in the history of the LGE yesterday, facilitated the signing of a Code of Conduct (CoC) for parties and individuals contesting the elections.

Any examination of the recent tragedy at Mahdia that claimed 19 lives would be incomplete without taking into account, the impact of mining on Indigenous communities.