Guyana News

The Mayor and City Council says rates for the first quarter of the year are due on February 1.

Half a torso, from the waist to the knees, of an unidentified person, was last evening fished out of a mudflat near the koker at Montrose, East Coast Demerara.

The external team that was invited to assist with investigations into the rape allegation against Police Commissioner Henry Greene arrived last week and has so far taken a statement from the complainant.

The traffic lights at Robb and Camp streets will be operable in about a month’s time, according to Leon Goring of the Ministry of Public Works.

A suspected robber who was allegedly nabbed with drugs was remanded to prison yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The Electoral Assistance Bureau (EAB) yesterday said that by this weekend it will release its official report on last November’s general elections.

Police have arrested a man following an early morning robbery and kidnapping at Bent Street, Georgetown yesterday.

The Guyana Police Force is informing the general public that two of the four Emergency 911 lines at the

A 17-year-old resident of St Lust, Berbice River died on Sunday after he was pinned by a tractor.

An elderly female Guyanese died from smoke inhalation in a fire in the Woodhaven section of Queens on Friday.

The Drug Enforcement Unit (DEU) of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) today uncovered some 100 kilogrammes of compressed marijuana stuffed inside a refrigerated container destined for Barbados.

(Trinidad Express) The way has been paved for Caribbean Airlines (CAL) to fly from Trinidad to India and vice versa, Transport Minister Devant Maharaj said yesterday.

(Jamaica Observer) Despite strident objection in the past, the opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) now seems set to support plans by the Portia Simpson Miller administration to end Jamaica’s relationship with the United Kingdom-based Privy Council.

At about 0230h today, police say a man armed with a handgun entered the home of Margaret Griffith, 59 years of Bent Street, Georgetown, and held her at gunpoint.

Police say that at about 1830h yesterday two men armed with a handgun and a cutlass entered the house of Meena Gobin, 30 years and her sister Jeenarine Narine, 26 years, at Betsy Ground, Canje, through an open door and held them up.

Police say that at about 1200h yesterday, Bervel Reynolds, 17 years of St.

The Guyana Police Force is informing the general public that two of the four Emergency 911 lines at the Brickdam Police Operations Room are presently out of order.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – It may not yet be the case in Suriname, but in other Caribbean countries there is cause for concern about crime, says Assistant Secretary General of the OAS Albert Ramdin.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Private investors and unions are cheerful over a possible 30 percent stake which the government might secure in negotiations with IamGold in the new US$ 800 million investment.

In a report in today’s edition, the New York Times said that scores of Guyanese, if not more, face financial ruin because of loans brokered by real estate magnate Ed Ahmad who has been charged over a US$50M mortgage fraud.