Guyana News

The government yesterday failed to deliver on its promise to liberalise the telecommunications sector during the life of the Ninth Parliament, with the deferral of two bills it said was critical to the process.

Better Hope resident Rosaline Lloyd was grazed by a bullet as she crept to shield her sleeping children, in the middle of a shootout between police and vandals early yesterday morning.

The National Assembly yesterday approved $3.3 billion in extra budgetary allocations, including $35M to support the establishment of a multi-faith religious television station.

Dr. Roger Luncheon yesterday said that the racial connotations contained in the article that triggered President Bharrat Jagdeo’s $10M libel suit did not change his perception of the Head of State.

An Enmore businessman and his family are now traumatised, after they were attacked by armed bandits and robbed of approximately $2M in cash and jewellery.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) will be partnering with the Guyana Parliament to help it boost its operations in several areas.

A man was shot at Sussex Street, Charlestown yesterday morning, after a fight with an acquaintance, who accused him of stepping on someone’s foot at a dance.

A fisherman lost his home on Wednesday night in a fire at Cove and John, East Coast Demerara that is believed to have been deliberately set.

In what he told the UN General Assembly was his final address to it, President Bharrat Jagdeo on Wednesday threw out four security challenges which he said must be addressed.

A 61-year-old journalist accused of raising a false bomb threat at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) was yesterday placed on $100,000 bail after he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

Rawleston Cummings was yesterday sentenced to 15 years imprisonment after pleading not guilty to murder but guilty to the manslaughter of Lloyd Kandasammy before Justice Roxane George on September 5.

Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee, was honoured on Wednesday evening by members of the National Community Policing Secretariat for his “fifth year of excellent ministerial duty”, a GINA press release said.

Guyanese businessman Mark Deygoo is in a serious condition in the St.

An eight-acre field under cultivation with cannabis sativa (marijuana) plants was on Wednesday last discovered during a

The National Commission on Law and Order agreed that the Home Affairs Ministry and the police would continue to collaborate with the private sector to restart the Crime Stoppers Programme.

Akbar Mohamed of Charity, Essequibo Coast was on Tuesday found guilty of being in possession of illegal petroleum.

The Rotaract Club of Georgetown Central organized a book drive to furnish the library of the Care Centre for Children as part of its observances for education month and international Day of Literacy held on September 8.

A 63-year-old man who was charged with assaulting his partner was yesterday placed on $25,000 bail after he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ court.

The preliminary inquiry (PI) into the matter of setting fire to the Supreme Court for which Colin Jones, Randy Mars, Jafar Simpson, Basil Morgan and Anthony Watson are accused commenced yesterday before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

The Women’s Affairs Bureau hosted an interactive session on Tuesday at the Ministry of Agriculture as part of a series of planned sessions on gender awareness in ministries and corporations.