Guyana News

A child of Mocha, East Bank Demerara was on Thursday brutally attacked by a truck driver at Cane View where he went to retrieve his kite.

(Trinidad Guardian) The owners of Brazilian Gold store in San Fernando were robbed at gunpoint as they returned to their Gulf View home last night.

Justice Gino Persaud this afternoon ruled that President Irfaan Ali’s decision to suspend members of the Police Service Commission (PSC) was was unlawful, ultra vires and of no legal effect.

The Police say they are investigating the shooting of a 34-year-old businesswoman of ‘B’ Field Sophia and her reputed husband, a 47-year-old minibus driver of the said address, by three men armed with handguns, which occurred at the victim’s home at about 9.20 pm yesterday.

Shared governance at the executive level would come if Guyana’s citizenry calls for it during the constitutional reform process but at the moment the PPP/C cannot trust the main opposition on supporting its holistic developmental policies, the party’s General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said, repeating a position he has previously enunciated.

A female teacher opted to arm herself with a weapon on Monday at Houston Secondary School, Georgetown, during an altercation with a parent and student, explaining that she was protecting herself after being attacked. 

Opposition Leader, Aubrey Norton yesterday urged the newly appointed members of the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) to work to fully understand their constitutional mandate and put the “national good” above political allegiance.

The US State Department’s 2022 Country Report on Human Rights Practices has highlighted the absence of labour clauses in public contract agreements, inadequate enforcement of the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) law by the government and reports of violations regarding wages and overtime payment in the oil and gas, mining, and logging sectors.

Teachers and students of Harmony Secondary School, Wismar, Linden, were attacked by a gang on Monday, and one teacher and a student were injured.

Targeting traditional strongholds of the People’s National Congress (PNC), General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday appealed to voters to trust their representatives with tackling issues in their respective municipalities and Neighbourhood Democratic Councils.

By Subhana Shiwmangal Victims of the horrific accident on Wednesday night when a container truck crashed into a religious crusade site on the Victoria Public Road, East Coast Demerara were yesterday counting themselves lucky to be alive.

Magistrate Dylon Bess on Wednesday upheld a no-case submission which was made by attorney Siand Dhurjon on behalf of Atlantic Fuels Inc, the company that was charged in 2021 by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) with falsifying an invoice for $40 million.

Hardware company Gafoors yesterday presented cars to six lucky winners of its Christmas promotion and a seventh for the Diamond area is soon to be named.

Well-known gold dealer, Nazar ‘Shell’ Mohamed, has been selected as the Eccles/Ramsburg PPP/C representative for the upcoming Local Government Elections, while prominent businessman, Harry Mattai, is being floated to represent the Bel Air Gardens/North West Campbellville constituency.

N’DJAMENA,  (Reuters) – Chad has nationalized all the assets and rights including hydrocarbon permits and exploration and production authorisations that belonged to a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil XOM.N,

Businessman, Devanand Singh was this afternoon sentenced to 18 months imprisonment by Principal Magistrate Leron Daly for inflicting grievous bodily harm on his daughter and using threatening language.

By Laurel Sutherland An almost five-hour-long public hearing on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision to waive an impact study for the construction and operation of a 300-megawatt natural gas-fired power plant ended with appellants remaining adamant that one be conducted citing limited available data on the project.

A suspected Linden bandit died and another was injured after a “shootout” with the police in the mining town of Linden yesterday.

Police are investigating the murder of Patricia Bovell, an 89-year-old of Lot 57 Russell Street, Charlestown, Georgetown and her grandson is in custody.

The young mother of three who was recently accused of fatally stabbing her common-law husband at their Alberttown residence was yesterday charged with manslaughter and granted bail in the sum of $300,000.