Guyana News

Guyana has dropped 26 spots in the press freedom rankings moving to 60 out of the 180 countries listed on the 2023 World Press Freedom Index, which was compiled by Reporters without Borders (RSF).

Police are investigating the murder of a 24-year-old porkknocker, allegedly by a 27-year-old man over the affections of a 16-year-old.

Currently serving a 15-year sentence for the 2016 killing of Charlestown youth Gregory Garraway, Joshua Meredith was yesterday afternoon handed a life sentence for the killing of Paul Rodney, a mere month later.

A post-mortem examination has concluded that 49-year-old Umar Ally, who was found dead in a Quamina Street guest house, minutes after checking into a room in the company of a young woman, died of a heart attack.

Gomeshwar Perez, the Corentyne man who was charged in 2020 with the murders of Canadian hotelier Vivekanand Brijbassi and his watchman Harry Persaud, yesterday opted to plead guilty to the lesser counts of manslaughter when he appeared at the High Court in Berbice.

Three companies submitted bids to supply a number of emergency drugs to the Ministry of Health and sources close to the process say that the New GPC has been awarded the contract with a bid pegged at $171 million.

A Cummings Lodge pensioner’s home was early Tuesday evening destroyed by flames from an unattended burning rubbish heap she had lit.

Hit and run accident victim, Allan Downes remains in a critical but stable condition three weeks after he was struck down by a SUV at Turkeyen, Rupert Craig Highway, according to his wife Marysia Bento Downes, in a recent Facebook post.

Brazilian Alexander Felix Plan was yesterday jailed for some 48 months and fined over $5.5 million after he pleaded guilty to several offences connected with him having landed a helicopter at the New River Triangle in February.

Twenty-five persons living with disabilities graduated from the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security’s skills training programme recently, bringing the total number of graduates to 294 over the past 12 months, a release from the ministry has said.

A man who recently saved the life of a young woman after she plunged over the Demerara Harbour Bridge was yesterday recognised by Minister of Human Services and Social Security Dr Vindhya Persaud and his damaged phone was replaced compliments of GTT.

Parasram Wellington, a 56-year-old driver  attached to Golden Fleece Investment on the Essequibo Coast, was charged today with driving under the influence (DUI), failing to stop after an accident and failing to render assistance to an injured person, the police said.

In yesterday’s Stabroek News under the headline `Match-ups set in Georgetown for June 12 polls’ it was erroneously stated that the PPP/C was not contesting in all constituencies in Georgetown. 

The Guyana Bar Association has been warned that it must pivot or perish in the face of new technologies that are changing the way justice is sought and delivered, Delivering the feature address at a symposium last Friday in observance of the Guyana Bar Association’s second annual Law Week held under the theme “New Legal Frontiers – Preparing for the Future,” Justice Winston Anderson of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) said that at the centre lie challenges to the legal profession in technological advances.

Emphasising that the press must continue to be resolute in the defence of right to life and liberty, President Irfaan Ali said the free press was indispensable in the protection of human rights and rights to freedom of expression.

Residents and tourists visiting Capoey Lake in Region Two are calling on the relevant authorities to repair a bridge which they say poses a major threat to their vehicles.

A construction worker was remanded to prison yesterday on a charge of attempted robbery.

A 65-year-old Mahaicony man is set to walk across the country starting today in protest against Exxon Mobil; he seeks to garner the attention of the international community as he believes that the company needs to be held accountable on several issues.

A New Amsterdam man has been charged with fraud after falsely pretending he could secure bail for a prisoner on remand.

Magistrate Fabayo Azore recently rejected the submission by Attorney Nigel Hughes that the charge against Tacoma Ogunseye was bad in law.