Guyana News

A West Canje Berbice man was yesterday freed after he was found not guilty on five counts of sexual assault on a minor in 2020.

During February 24-25, 2023, China’s Ambassador to Guyana, Guo Haiyan and her colleagues of the Embassy visited Lethem, Region 9, and paid a courtesy call on Chairman of Region 9 RDC  Bryan Allicock and Mayor of Lethem John Macedo.

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA) is sponsoring three of its employees to complete the New Guyana School’s (NGS) Project Management for Construction Professionals programme, the Department of Public Information (DPI) reported yesterday.

President Irfaan Ali on Monday accepted the Letters of Credence from the non-resident Ambassador of Sweden to Guyana, Anders Bengtcén at the Office of the President on Shiv Chanderpaul Drive.

Yesterday, the Guyana Tourism Authority, in collaboration with Visit Rupununi hosted a Tourism Business Licensing Clinic in Lethem, Region 9.

The Guyana Fire Service is currently investigating the circumstances that led to a blaze at Lot 6971 Norton Street, Lodge, Georgetown, around 12:21 am on Monday.

STEMGuyana, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting STEM education in Guyana, says it has signed an exclusive agreement with the International Youth Robotics Competition (IYRC) to train and certify STEM club coaches who will prepare students for participation in the IYRC global robotics competition.

A Sophia miner, charged with simple larceny, was on Monday released on $50,000 bail after appearing in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

The Ministry of Health yesterday reported one new case of COVID-19.

The Ministry of Public Works today said that $27.6m worth of roadworks at Melanie Damishana on the East Coast of Demerara have been completed.

Following an audit report over breaches in relation to COVID-19 purchases, Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee [PAC], Jermaine Figueira, has recommended that the Ministry of Health make recommendations for the amending of the Procurement Act 2003 to include emergency acquisitions and improved regulations.

An East Bank Berbice man who was charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol was yesterday placed on a total of $1.2m bail after he was involved in an accident that resulted in the death of Corporal Alden Reynolds on Thursday last.

Two Brazilians — helicopter pilot Alexandre Felix Plan and labourer Ricardo Brags Silva, were charged yesterday with several offences when they appeared via zoom before Magistrate Allan Wilson at Lethem.

With no increase in the cost to generate electricity in Linden, the Interim Management Committee of the Linden Utility Services Cooperative Society Limited (LUSCSL) was urged by Labour Minister, Joseph Hamilton, to rescind its management’s decision to increase the tariff to consumers.

By Shuntel GlasgowAround sixty residents of Yarrowkabra, on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway face the permanent loss of access to water from a spring because of sand mining in the area.

After changing her plea for the third time and with the last one being guilty, former media worker 26-year-old Zanneel Nirmala Williams was yesterday sentenced to four years imprisonment and fined $14.4 million for drug trafficking at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri.

Minister of Education Priya Manickchand, has said that a recently concluded Regional Department investigation reveal-ed that an incident that occurred at Woodley Park Secondary on February 17th, was not racist.

After apologizing for his act and pleading for leniency, Eduardo Alexander Moore, who was held with 2.382 kilograms of cocaine by the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) on Albert Street, yesterday pleaded guilty to trafficking and was sentenced by Principal Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus to four years and three months behind bars.

Following months of extensive infrastructural works in the Grove area, drivers can now effortlessly pass through the once heavily congested area, according to a Ministry of Public Works release.

The first Literacy and Robotics Programme of the Ministry of Education was launched at Den Amstel Primary School, Region Three yesterday through the National Literacy Department and the National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD.