Guyana News

More than fifty families occupying lands at Plantation Hope (Enmore Grass Field), East Coast Demerara were expected to receive their Agreements of Sale yesterday.

The police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 60-year-old woman of Corentyne, Berbice, whose decomposing body was found on Sunday.

Police are investigating the stabbing to death of Raynold John, a 24-year-old miner of Moruca Village, North West District,  which occurred at about 00:30 hrs on Sunday at ‘Chiney Creek’ Backdam, Puruni River.

The Ministry of Health yesterday congratulated Dr Abdulla Amin and team on the safe delivery of an 11.2-pound baby at the Diamond Diagnostic Hospital.

Some 1,000 members of the Guyana Police Force on May 13th, graduated from the COPSQUAD 2000 initiative through the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund under the Spotlight Initiative.

Ambassador Carolyn Rodrigues Birkett participated yesterday in the 2023 UN Security Council Briefing Series for non-contested candidates and presented Guyana’s vision and priorities for its term on the UN Security Council.

Justice Simone Morris Ramlall yesterday vacated Abdul Mc Lennan’s guilty plea to manslaughter after he told the court before sentencing yesterday that he was first attacked by Leslie Fraser, a handyman/security guard, who he is accused of cuffing, causing him to fall and hit his head in 2017 at Rose Hall Town, Corentyne.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday met with the Chairman of Qatar Tourism and Group CEO of Qatar Airways Akbar Al Baker in Doha.

Scores of residents living at Dartmouth and neighbouring communities in the Evergreen/Paradise Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) in Pomeroon-Supenaam are requesting skills training, agriculture projects, and the upgrading of several streets.

A 29-year-old miner of Arakaka Compound, North West District, was on Monday arrested by police after he was found in possession of an unlicensed .32 Taurus pistol with an empty magazine.

Police ranks from regional division #7 on Sunday arrested a 27-year-old man after he took ownership of 560 grams of suspected marijuana that they found in a tray of a vehicle they intercepted.

With numerous failed efforts at commercialization, the Ministry of Agriculture has embarked on another pilot project for onions here with lands on the Soesdyke Highway and at the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) currently under cultivation.

Thirty small and growing agro-processing business leaders participating in this year’s Economic Development Accelerator (EDA) programme, according to a statement yesterday from the US Embassy.

On Wednesday, May 10, 2023, Food For The Poor (Guy) Inc donated thirty sets of kiddies furniture to the Department of Education, Region One.

 (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp XOM.N today settled a long-running human rights lawsuit with villagers who claimed soldiers Exxon hired to guard a natural gas facility in Indonesia committed murder and torture.

The police today issued wanted bulletins for two men in connection with a double murder at Block 22, Wismar on Saturday.

Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Cecilia Ramsook, called ‘Sisto’, a 60-year-old  unemployed woman from Lot 41 Johanna North, Black Bush Polder, Corentyne, Berbice.

Police are investigating the stabbing to death of Raynold John, a 24-year-old miner of Moruca Village, North West District,  which occurred at about 00:30 hrs yesterday at ‘Chiney Creek’ Backdam, Puruni River.

The Integrity Commission yesterday issued a warning to public officers who have not submitted their 2022 declarations.

Guyana Press Association (GPA) President, Nazima Raghubir was yesterday re-elected to a second term following a highly contentious elections.