Guyana News

An East Coast Demerara man was remanded to prison after he was read two charges of illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

The family of Margaret Kennedy, one of the four persons who died in a horrific vehicular crash on Monday morning on the public road at Greenwich Park, East Bank Essequibo (EBE), is calling for justice.

The PNCR today  condemned the arrest and the charging by the Lethem Police this morning of Carl Parker and other of its regional Party officials.

The government yesterday released its five-year national strategy to combat money laundering (ML) and the financing of terrorism (TF) with a key feature being enhancing the capabilities of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) and improving the investigating and prosecuting competencies here.

Discussions with ExxonMobil have commenced on possible gas production with government eying monetizing the offshore resource as soon as the auctioning of oil blocks is completed, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said.

In 2017, the BV/Triumph Neighbourhood Democratic Council sold 33 house lots for $1 million each, using a system it described as a lottery, however there are no records to substantiate the process, and the list of names reveals that most of the allottes are council members and their families, and persons not from the community, Councillor Elton McRae has alleged.

The sod was turned on Monday for the construction of the 45-room Lakeside International luxury hotel at Anna Regina, in Region Two.

Amid growing complaints from businesspersons that they are unable to access foreign exchange from the banking system, the bankers’ association yesterday said that it and its members are committed to working with all stakeholders to ensure efficiency and stability in the market.

The government has signed agreements valued at US$222 million with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) as part of its efforts to speed up Guyana’s development efforts.

Edward Sukhu, the man who allegedly threw a lit kerosene stove on his reputed wife during a dispute over a cellphone has since been remanded to prison after he was charged with attempted murder.

As part of government’s push to improve work skills nationwide, 45 persons have graduated from a navigation and map-reading course under the umbrella of the Ministry of Natural Resources (MoNR).

Reacting to reports in the Suriname press, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation on March 6th said that an operation against illegal mining on February 19 was conducted by the GDF “exclusively in the undisputed sovereign territory” of Guyana.

Region Three Special Constable, Renetta Profit, is the winner of the Guyana Police Force’s “Employee of the Month” Award in recognition of her professionalism and work ethic.

Four people are dead following a horrific vehicular crash yesterday morning on the public road at Greenwich Park, East Bank Essequibo.

Almost on the eve of International Women’s Day a 26-year-old woman died yesterday morning after she was brutally stabbed by her common-law husband, who survived despite turning the knife on himself as well as consuming a poisonous substance and has been hospitalised under police guard.

The Inter-American Development Bank Group (IDB Group) is currently holding its XI Annual Consultation with Governors of the countries comprising its Caribbean Country Department, and the President of the Caribbean Development Bank.

A visiting delegation from Belize’s Mayan community has said that there are a number of shortfalls in Guyana’s Amerindian Act, which they hope to learn from and improve on in the legislation currently being drafted for that country’s Indigenous people.

By Professor Clem Seecharan (Clem Seecharan is a cricket Historian and author of Hand-in-Hand History of Cricket in Guyana, two volumes of which have been published.

A 27-year-old New Amsterdam man is now frustrated after he was arrested without cause on Sunday evening while attempting to access the main road in New Amsterdam after the regional Mashramani parade.

Kenley Smith, 15 months old of Dredge Creek, Essequibo Coast, died after he allegedly drowned at his Essequibo Coast home.