Guyana News

By Joseph Allen Seven-month-old Oriya Gravesande, who died on Tuesday after being in the care of Little Learnings Day Care at Ogle, succumbed due to haemorrhage and suffocation by compression of the neck, an autopsy found.

The Ministry of Local Government yesterday met with Stabroek Market vendors and committed to carrying out necessary works including repairing the leaking roof and fixing the bathroom facilities.

By Aaliyah McFarlane An emergency shelter has been set up at Grove for 42 persons following Tuesday’s river defence breach on the East Bank Demerara (EBD) which swamped homes, inflicting severe losses and leaving residents pressing for compensation.

Co-President of the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA), Mike McCormack, has penned a response to the Attorney General’s assertion (Stabroek News, March 21, page 8) that that the association has not been in Good Standing for nearly three decades and owes the Government of Guyana some $38 million, an allegation the GHRA says it “roundly rejects.” 

At least three persons were injured just around 9 pm yesterday when a container truck careened into a crusade site on the Victoria Public Road, East Coast Demerara.

With the completion of arguments in the appeal of Chief Justice Roxane George’s ruling throwing out the Elections Petition which challenged the recount order from which the polls of March 2nd 2020 were declared, the Court of Appeal will next move to rule.

Two of the men who were recently nabbed in Toroparu Backdam in Region Seven allegedly with unlicensed firearms and ammunition by ranks of the Guyana Police Force were yesterday charged and remanded to prison.

Two Corentyne men were yesterday remanded to prison after they were charged with the  attempted murder of  Naresh Ramangal who remains in critical condition at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital following a fight over a missing pig on Sunday.

A businessman yesterday appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan where he was charged with attempting to forge a document from the Commercial Registry.

Eight persons were on Tuesday sworn in as the new  members of the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC).

Minister of Labour,  Joseph Hamilton yesterday solicited the full cooperation of the Bosai Minerals Group Guyana management in the investigation to be done of the workplace death of bulldozer operator, Neptrid Hercules.

Several meetings have been held with the GEB security firm in order to assist with the investigation which has been launched by the Ministry of Labour’s Occupational Safety and Health Department (OS&HD) after 27-year-old  guard,  Zephyr Stanislaw fell overboard and drowned earlier this month.

Guyana’s Ministry of Health was the recipient on Monday of a donation of Pfizer vaccines from the Government of Spain.

Giving his reason for stealing over $5 million in gold jewellery as having “nothing,” and claiming that he returned all of it to a police officer, a West Coast Demerara (WCD) youth has since been sentenced to four years behind bars after pleading guilty to a simple larceny charge.

Thirty-nine-year-old Ulric Lambert, a miner of Grove Squatting Area, East Bank Demerara (EBD), was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with having 739.6 grams of cannabis in his possession for the purpose of trafficking.

An intelligence-led Police operation was conducted a short while ago to apprehend several male suspects who were at a house in Wisroc, Linden.

Twenty-year-old Aaliyan Lewis also called Dacia was this morning charged with manslaughter and granted bail in the sum of $300,000.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Sixteen U.S. states and a handful of Caribbean governments yesterday expressed support for Mexico’s appeal in a civil lawsuit against U.S.

The Guyana Poultry Producers Association (GPPA) yesterday called on government to urgently address the smuggling of chicken over the country’s eastern and southern borders and the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) said it was aware of the problem and is addressing it.

A river defence breach at Grove on the East Bank of Demerara last night led to severe flooding and Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill said that a shelter will be opened.