Guyana News

Superintendent of the Mazaruni Prison, Alexander Hopkinson is among six persons who were charged today with conspiring to facilitate the escape on Friday of death row prisoner Royden Williams known as `Smallie’.

Today, CANU Officers conducted an operation at an abandoned house located at Avocado Square East Ruimveldt, Georgetown which led to the discovery of various types of ammunitions.

The Ministry of Health today said that 29 children from the Mahdia dormitory fire have been assessed and treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital and its medical teams have been mobilised to provide services to the Region Eight community and to remain on standby.

Sources say grilled windows at the Mahdia Secondary School Dormitory were flagged by the fire service as a hazard in November of last year and February of this year – months before Sunday’s deadly blaze that claimed 19 lives.

Following the submission of 26 recommendations in their report on the 2020 General Elections where eight were singled out as priority areas, the European Union Election Observation follow-up mission yesterday said that many of them are still concerns of stakeholders today, with only two implemented.

Police are investigating the murder of Terrence Washington, a 47-year-old carpenter of Lot 60 D’Urban Street, Lodge, Georgetown who was attacked by two men.

As the manhunt continues for notorious convicted killer, Mark Royden Williams six days after he escaped the maximum security Mazaruni prison, Region Seven remains tense and social activities have declined particularly because of his deadly relationship with the town of Bartica.

Finding that his defence of alibi had not been put to the jury, the Court of Appeal has ordered that Sheldon Lynch be retried on two charges which allege that he had raped a 10-year-old girl on two separate occasions—in 2010 and 2011 respectively.

Ex prison officer and bodybuilder Warren George, who last Wednesday made a daring attempt to escape the custody of a police officer at the High Court in Georgetown where he was on trial, has been found not guilty of the rape charge which was levelled against him.

(Ministry of Education photos) Sixteen-year-old Sabrina John was yesterday laid to rest in her home village of Karisparu, Region Eight.

The Ministry of Agriculture’s Hope Coconut Industries Limited (HCIL) recently acquired a shipment of Brazilian Green Dwarf coconut seed nuts.

As the country continues to mourn the deaths of the 19 children following the Mahdia Secondary School dormitory fire, two patients continue to fight for their lives.

Police are investigating a fatal accident that claimed the life of  Beshma Jagdeo, a 49-year-old fisherman of Lot 895 Second Field, South West, Cummings Lodge, Georgetown, on the Rupert Craig Highway in the vicinity of MovieTowne.

Compiled by Anita Baker and Shemila Karim (Interns with the Guyana Media and Communication Academy) With Local Government Elections (LGE) set for June 12th 2023 in municipalities and neighbourhood democratic councils Stabroek News went into the streets to get the views of Guyanese who are eligible to vote.

A prison officer died in an accident at Loo Creek on Sunday evening.

Fifty-seven-year old Raymond Wilson, of Lot 508 Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on May 23 before Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus to answer to the charge that was laid against him.

Forty-nine-year old Dexter Forde, of Lot 1952 Bobby Peak, Festival City, Georgetown, appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Chief Magistrate Sherdel-Isaacs Marcus charged with insulting former city mayor Pat Chase Green.

A Goedverwagting man who was on trial for allegedly trafficking cannabis in 2021 was freed of the charge on May 23.

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) yesterday received two mobile phones and two SIM cards from the Digicel Speed Release Store in Mahdia, Region 8.

CARICOM Heads of Government have noted the horrific deaths of 19 young people in a fire in a dormitory of the Mahdia Secondary School in Mahdia, Guyana.