Guyana News

Cane View/Mocha residents whose homes were demolished by the government to make way for a road have told their lawyers to start legal proceedings after government failed to signal interest in mediation.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament was yesterday forced to abort another meeting after three government members tendered excuses and two did not show up.

A Rosignol man, who last month opted to plead guilty to fatally stabbing his wife back in November, 2020, was yesterday sentenced to twenty years in prison.

Seventy-five-year-old Lynette Gray, the grandmother of Jermaine Johnson Jnr, the eight-year-old who perished in a fire in Cummings Lodge last month has died of her injuries.

The Ministry of Home Affairs on Sunday said that it is aware of the recent incident that occurred on Friday, February 17, 2023, at Woodley Park Secondary School, West Coast Berbice.

Minister of Housing and Water Collin Croal, yesterday handed over the keys for ready-to-move in two-bedroom homes to nine families who were squatting on the Annandale Sea Defence Reserve, East Coast Demerara.

The United States’ Lesser Antilles Medical Assistance Team (LAMAT), in partnership with Guyana’s Ministry of Health, will perform surgical operations, provide dental services, and conduct professional knowledge exchanges through March 3.

The Skeldon Post Office is in a “deplorable and disgusting” condition, APNU+AFC Councillor for Region Six, Shurla Scott told the Regional Democratic Council last week.

Some 50 farmers from various communities along the Soesdyke-Linden Highway will receive two piglets each as part of government’s aggressive efforts to expand the livestock sector, a Department of Public Information (DPI) release said on Friday.

The police in Region Five are still on the hunt for the person who attacked a Hopetown, West Coast Berbice cattle farmer resulting in him being hospitalized.

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) on Sunday donated a quantity of much needed supplies to a group of Venezuelan indigenous migrants living in Lethem, Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo.

Allan Caleb, a 70-year-old bed-ridden pensioner of Mabaruma, North West District, on Saturday benefitted from a rehabilitated stairway as part of President Irfaan Ali’s Men on Mission initiative.

Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha and Prime Minister Mark Phillips on Sunday handed over a tractor to the Whim/Bloomfield Corentyne NDC, valued some $5 million.

Two employees of a security service have been arrested over indiscriminate shooting on Sunday.

Nine men were today released on $300,000 bail each over  terrorism offences during unrest at the Mon Repos market in June 2022 in the wake of a protest over the killing of Quindon Bacchus.

Two fishermen who last month pleaded guilty to the murder of Corentyne boat captain Mahadeo Ramdial, who drowned after pirates attacked his boat back in May, 2017, were today sentenced to 25 years in prison each.

Police ranks in Regional Division 4 ‘A’ are probing a fatal accident that occurred this morning at 12.20 am on Vlissengen Road, which resulted in the death of  21-year-old motorcyclist, Anthony Pierre of West Ruimveldt Estate Scheme.

The Ministry of Home Affairs yesterday said that it is aware of the recent incident that occurred on Friday, February 17, 2023, at Woodley Park Secondary School, West Coast Berbice.

Economist Dr Clive Thomas says that the case for an oil refinery here has not been made.

A love story ended tragically yesterday morning when a Lima Sands, Essequibo Coast man was stabbed to death, allegedly by his teenage wife.