Guyana News

After hearing almost two hours of arguments the Court of Appeal yesterday set March 22nd for further testimony in the appeal of Chief Justice Roxane George’s ruling throwing out Elections Petition 88 of 2020, Claudette Thorne et anor v Keith Lowenfield.

The Government Technical Institute (GTI) has been awarded $30 million to construct an Accredited Welding Facility which would see the institution being able to offer licences to welders upon certification with the American Welding Society.

Around  100 low-income and moderate-income homes are being constructed at Great Diamond, East Bank Demerara utilizing modern construction techniques, the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA) says.

Lurick Fiffee, who was accused of the 2018 killing of his ex-girlfriend Rosemary Rudder, was yesterday unanimously found not guilty by a jury in Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall’s court.

More than 40 residents from from Region Five and Region Six were allocated land and housing units on Monday.

With Valentine’s Day approaching the race is on to pick out gifts and clothing for the celebration.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) took a decision at its Statutory Meeting of Tuesday, February 7, 2023 to request the Guyana Police Force (GPF) to probe three cases of duplicate registrations which were committed during the ongoing Cycle of Continuous Registration.

A Corentyne motorcyclist died after he rode into a parked lorry along the Auchlyne Public Road today around 6.10 am.

Facing myriad problems, rice farmers from across the country yesterday told Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha that spare parts dealers are ripping them off and they called for a standard paddy price.

Despite its efforts to assure that the operation of a radioactive (RA) source storage and calibration would cause no harm, a group of residents of Houston and  nearby communities yesterday adamantly told  oil and gas company, Schlumberger Guyana Inc that they do not want the operation in their community.

Former Massy Chairman Sidney Knox passed away yesterday. Knox had been well known to the Guyanese business community during his years at the helm of what was then Neal and Massy.

The police yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for Yuri Dominquez, 37, the man allegedly at the centre of a huge Ponzi scheme that bilked dozens.

As ExxonMobil forges ahead with the construction of its headquarters at Ogle on the East Coast of Demerara and with no publicly known price tag on the project or if any monies would be recovered from cost oil for it, Opposition Parliamentarian Ganesh Mahipaul has moved to the National Assembly for answers he says are owed to this country.

Six fishermen were on Monday rescued by the Guyana Defence Force Coast Guard with the assistance of a civilian vessel after their fishing vessel sank in the Pomeroon River last Thursday.

The Guyana Fire and Rescue Service (GFS) says that the blaze  which occurred yesterday on the West Bank Demerara (WBD) that left two occupants homeless, and one on Sunday on the West Coast Berbice (WCB) that caused severe damage to a property, were the result of arson.

The decomposing body of Kevin Singh, a 45-year-old auto body technician of Industry Crown Dam, was found in a trench at Ogle Embankment, East Coast Demerara, yesterday morning.

Constrained by limited finances due to government withholding their subvention, the International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly-Guyana (IDPADA-G) has stated that it will be taking a new direction in the offering of its services.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that an 84-year-old man from Region Six is the most recent COVID fatality.       

Former Deputy Chief Election Officer (DCEO), Roxanne Myers yesterday appeared at the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the March 2020 General and Regional Elections but declined to testify. 

As part of its objective to promote the new British Airways service and inaugural flight between St.