Guyana News

The Government of Guyana in collaboration with Demerara Bank Limited (DBL) yesterday officially launched the $900 million revolving fund for the forestry sector, aimed at boosting small- and medium-scale logging operations in a sustainable environment.

An Ogle day care is coming under heavy questioning by the authorities over the death of a seven-month-old baby who allegedly died from suffocation.

Amid a bleak prognosis by a Jamaican economist about Guyana’s oil-based future, the government yesterday pushed back, citing a string of measures it has put in place since 2020 which it said will help the country avoid  the resource curse.

The Guyana Bar Association (GBA) says that the recent “disparaging,” remarks made by Justice Sandil Kissoon, finding that attorney Stephen Fraser SC committed fraud on a Court; among other things can have a debilitating impact on the rule of law and diminish public confidence in the administration of justice.

Attorney-at-Law, Melinda Janki, says that the government’s carbon credits arrangement with Hess Corporation violates the constitutional rights of Amerindians to their property and self-government.

A fire of unknown origin completely destroyed a two-bedroom wooden house at Reliance, East Canje Berbice just around 8 am yesterday.

An East Canje Berbice hire car driver who was found guilty of three counts of sexual activity with a child committed in 2020 was sentenced to life imprisonment on all three counts yesterday at the High Court in Berbice.

As of last weekend those vendors who were displaced by the inferno that destroyed the entire Parika Market Complex in February, have taken up their temporary spots along the road which was recently rehabilitated for them.

The  Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has not been in good standing under the Companies Act for three decades and as a result owes a hefty amount, Attorney General Anil Nandlall said in a statement yesterday.

A brand new $75m pump has been installed at Crabwood Creek, Upper Corentyne following a meeting with Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha where farmers pleaded for the same to assist with flooding in the area.

Pakuri also known as St Cuthbert’s Mission is to be made into a model for integrated farms for small villages around the nation and the government will support the expansion of its ongoing agricultural projects.

With hearings scheduled for 5pm today at the Cara Lodge, Quamina Street, Georgetown, civil society activists are waiting to see if the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Environmental Assessment Board (EAB) will postpone the event as they have called for.

Two men were injured after they were involved in a fight over a missing pig at Rose Hall Town, Corentyne, on Sunday evening. 

On the 20th March 2023, Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) officers intercepted a motor vehicle with two male occupants bearing Registration number HD 1880 at Charity Street, Charity, Essequibo.

The Guyana Poultry Producers Association is calling on the Government to urgently address the smuggling of chicken over the country’s eastern and southern borders   Poultry producers have expressed alarm at the increased visibility of smuggled chicken on the local market.

A senior US government official has urged Guyana to step up efforts to take on cybercrime and an assessment team is to visit this week to share best practices for the protection of military networks.

A Sunday afternoon fire ravaged two Agricola, East Bank Demerara houses, and also claimed the life of 45-year-old Kevin Trotman and left 13 persons homeless, a statement from the Guyana Fire Service [GFS] said.

A 19-year-old labourer, who was employed at a vulcanizing shop at Old Kara Kara, Mackenzie, Linden, died on Monday while he was attending to a truck tyre that allegedly exploded.

Geotechnical engineer Charles Ceres has been named to head the  investigation into the death of Bosai employee Neptrid Hercules.

One week after his co-accused was freed, former mason, 30-year-old George Hope, has also been acquitted of the 2018 murder of America Street moneychanger Shawn Nurse.