Guyana News

A suspect is being grilled by police about Sunday’s fire at Linden after he was seen on surveillance video stealing items from the Chinese garment store which was gutted and similar items were found in a building he had control of.

Lindeners yesterday questioned the developers of the Amaila Falls hydropower project, expressing concerns about the cost of power and jobs at a community meeting to discuss the recently released Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) report on the project.

A bystander was shot during a struggle between a fleeing suspect and a policeman at Longden Street, Stabroek on Monday night.

Police are looking for a gunman who shot a man in the chest, following an argument over money on Monday night.

The Cheddi Jagan Inter-national Airport (CJIA), Timehri was buzzing with excitement as REDjet’s inaugural flight from Barbados to Guyana landed yesterday morning and passengers declared their satisfaction.

Five men, including three Jamaicans, remain in police custody as investigators continue to probe how they came to be in possession of an unlicensed gun, a quantity of ammunition and items suspected to be stolen.

Five persons who were arrested among the suspects in a crime ring that was selling false Guyanese passports, false St.

PPP/C MP Bibi Shadick on Monday slammed the Region 6 administration for being unable to present the auditors with any of the log books for the 66 vehicles used in the region.

PNCR presidential candidate David Granger says the opposition parties working on an elections coalition are close to naming a presidential candidate and running mate, ahead of a joint campaign launch later this month.

Conditions at the Kitty Market continue to deteriorate and no set plan has been identified for its restoration, years after proposals were made, according to Tacuma Ogunseye.

The Guyana Power & Light Company (GPL) and bill payment service, Bill Direct Holdings Inc.

The child who was badly burnt in a fire at his Enmore, East Coast Demerara home yesterday succumbed to his injuries around 3 am today.

Minister of Amerindian Affairs Pauline Sukhai has announced that government is releasing $25M to the Region 2 administration to carry out works on the access road to Lake Capoey.

The prosecution yesterday closed its case as directed by Magistrate Chandra Sohan in the matter for which social activist Mark Benschop and columnist Freddie Kissoon are accused of obstructing municipal works at the Cemetery Road dumpsite.

Region Four Chairman Clement Corlette says that Chief Executive Officer of the Central Housing and Planning Authority, Mryna Pitt has not yet responded to his letter seeking information on the works at ‘Pradoville 2,’ which he charges could be in violation of regulations.

Education Minister Shaik Baksh and Minister within the Ministry of Health Dr Bheri Ramsaran met the with the North Ruimveldt Secondary school Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) to discuss ways of boosting programmes at the school that would benefit the wider community.

A man was yesterday jailed for 18 months after police only recently apprehended him since he escaped  while on remand.

The matter against murder accused Philbert McPherson was on Monday last dismissed because the individual had been charged under a law that no longer exists.

Prince Wilkie, the 17-year-old who is accused of murdering Dwayne Durant during last year’s Diwali motorcade, yesterday made another appearance before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Ecuador is becoming a “United  Nations” of organized crime with drug traffickers from Albania  to China using it as a staging ground to strike deals with  freelance Andean cocaine smugglers, a U.S.