Guyana News

Shawn Lee, a 25-year-old resident of Timehri Base Road, East Bank Demerara, succumbed at around 8.19 am yesterday to injuries he sustained in an accident on Sunday on the Friend-ship Public Road, East Bank Demerara, the police said in a statement.

Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance Gail Teixeira on behalf of Senior Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh yesterday presented a Supplementary Bill comprising Financial Papers Number 1 and 2 to the National Assembly relating to components of the Low Carbon Develop-ment Strategy (LCDS) 2030 to be financed from carbon credit inflows.

Firefighters from the Alberttown Fire Station were on Sunday called to an apartment at Lot 33 Norton Street, Wortmanville, where a partially decomposed body was found.

The Ministry of Public Works has instructed Contractor, B. Harry Sawmill to remedy all defects in relation to work done in Wismar Street, Linden, Region 10 and to do so as soon as possible, in order to minimise the inconvenience to residents of the community.

A 33-year-old ice-cream vendor of Canal #2, WBD was on Sunday shot and robbed by two men on motorcycle at ‘D’ Field Sophia (Red Road), while selling ice-cream.

Extension officers and other stakeholders in the agriculture sector will over the next five days participate in a training exercise on fertilizers, biofertilizers and nutrient management.

The recently commissioned Hogben Drayton Maths and Science Centre at the University of Guyana, Turkeyen campus, honours UG’s first chancellor and vice chancellor Lancelot Hogben and Harold Drayton respectively.

The Public Procurement Commission (PPC) will host a One-Day Training Seminar for Suppliers and Contractors on Wednesday 31st May, 2023, from 9 a.m.

Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat yesterday tabled in the National Assembly the Guyana-EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Voluntary Partnership Agreement or VPA.

The Guyana Fire Service’s  (GFS) Annual Officers’ Conference started yesterday with the Home Affairs Minister stating that the gaps within its operations have to be identified and addressed.

A 30-year-old Venezuelan national was on Saturday nabbed at the Takutu International Bridge, Lethem, with 21 sachets of suspected cocaine in his mouth.

Bhoula Persaud, a 33-year-old man of Logwood Enmore, East Coast Demerara, was on Friday charged with several larceny offences committed on residents of Enmore and the surrounding villages and jailed on three of them.

As police continue to investigate the mystery behind the kidnapping and subsequent murder of the 36-year-old woman whose body was discovered aback Betsy Ground, East Canje Berbice on Friday, a post-mortem examination carried out on the body of the wanted suspect revealed no foul play.

Two men were today remanded to prison after they were charged with the murder of police constable Quincy Lewis, whose skeletal remains were discovered in a shallow grave last week.

Shawn Lew, a 25-year-old resident of Timehri Base Road, East Bank Demerara, succumbed at around 8.19 am today to injuries he sustained in an accident yesterday on the Friendship Public Road, East Bank Demerara, the police said in a statement.

Today, the Ministry of Agriculture signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with UPL Limited, an India-based company paving the way for trials to commence for millets cultivation, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said in a release.

The government’s silence continues on the question of Ministry of Home Affairs Permanent Secretary Mae Thomas’ phone being confiscated and her visa cancelled.

Two motorcyclists died early Saturday evening after they were involved in a head on collision on the Timehri Public Road.

The East Canje Berbice cattle farmer accused of ordering the kidnapping of a 36-year-old woman whose body was discovered aback of Betsy Ground, East Canje, Berbice on Friday, was found dead yesterday morning; it was alleged he had committed suicide.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday commissioned the MV Ma Lisha, a vessel which he said will play an integral role in allowing Region One (Barima-Waini) to be an important link connecting Guyana with Trinidad and Tobago, and open a pathway to increased food production and economic opportunities.