Guyana News

Five persons were left homeless on Friday after a fire at Number 64 Village, Corentyne.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) says that contrary to reports in the press it has not commenced the registration of electric bikes, electric cycles and electric golf carts presently traversing the roads of the country.

Residents of Wakapoa and Akawini (Baracaro) in the Lower Pomeroon and Karawab and Kabakaburi in the Upper Pomeroon will receive first-time access to potable water with the drilling of new wells.

On Friday between 6.30 am and 9 am  a search was carried out at the Timehri Prisons headed by OC#2 subdivision-DSP Davis, OC Timehri Prisons, Superintendent of Prisons A.

At about 10.10 pm on Friday, Police ranks in Regional Division #3 acted on information received and proceeded to the Pouderoyen Tarmac, West Bank Demerara, where they arrested a bartender who had in his possession an unlicensed 9mm pistol with matching rounds of ammunition.

Police have launched an investigation into a river collision involving a Guyana Defence Force craft and that of a Venezuelan national on Friday morning on the Cuyuni River in Region Seven.

Police are investigating the killing of Surajpaul Etwaroo, a 38-year-old construction worker of Lot 380 Good Hope, Phase One, East Coast Demerara,  which occurred at about 5.30 last evening at Sideline Road, Good Hope.

Police are investigating a fatal accident which occurred at 1.55 am today on the Auchlyne Public Road, Corentyne, Berbice after a hire car driver lost control of his vehicle and collided with a Guyana Power and Light (GPL) pole.

Police are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 5.30 pm yesterday  on the Coldingen Public Road, East Coast Demerara, which claimed the life of a 17-year-old girl Bibi Sophia Mohammed.

A motorcyclist and pillion rider, both residents of Bartica, died after being involved in a collision with a motorcar.

A West Coast Berbice cattle farmer is now hospitalized at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital after he was allegedly burnt by a villager who dubbed him a ‘traitor’ after he assisted police in removing the car torched following an accident earlier this month.

A protest in neighbouring Suriname against the government’s decision to remove subsidies from fuel turned ugly as demonstrators stormed the Parliament Building in Paramaribo, leaving it in shambles.

Seven of twelve men wanted for terrorism at Mon Repos on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD) on June 28, 2022, turned themselves in to the police on Wednesday and Thursday.

A miner had to be air-dashed to a city hospital after sustaining critical injuries when an attempt was made to murder him Ryan Williams, a 22-year-old miner of Byderabo Village, Essequibo River, was airlifted to Georgetown with life-threatening injuries by the Guyana Defence Force, after three suspects attempted to murder him during an argument on Thursday at about 4 pm.

Muslim scholar Nezaam Ali, who is presently serving a forty-five-year sentence for rape, was yesterday found not guilty on the count of raping a six-year-old boy in 2011.

After being busted with a total of 451 grammes of cocaine at her Essequibo home on Thursday, the accused, Brenda Charles was yesterday brought before the courts to answer to the charge of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking, and was sentenced to four years behind bars after pleading guilty.

After bail was refused at the High Court in Ber-bice, contractor, Shazad Sattaur was yesterday placed on $1.5m bail when he made his second appearance at the Reliance Magis-trate’s Court.

Tenders were opened on Tuesday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) for security services for various organizations under the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports.

The Guyana Prison Service (GPS) can now add 13 new recruits to its roster after they completed a four-month Basic Recruit Training Course (BRTC) at the Prison Training Centre at Timehri.

Keba Evelyn of West Demerara Secondary was yesterday declared the winner of this year’s poetry competition: 14 to 18 years in the Children’s Mashramani Competition.