Guyana News

-also runs community centres While the Ordnance/Fort Lands Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) continues to push its street and drainage programme, it is also heavily focused on continuing to build community relations with its counselling centre.

The annual Jamzone Summer Break at the Splashmins Fun Park & Resort, at Madewini on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway is scheduled to take place today.

Major preparatory works have commenced in relation to canals like the one at Hope, East Coast Demerara which will be constructed in the Corentyne area to obviate the possibility of any heavy flooding. 

A family on the Corentyne  has been plunged into mourning as a woman and her daughter both died following the ingestion of poison.

A book review by Christopher Ram – Part 2 For many Guyanese, chapter 3 of Dr Maurice Odle’s memoir is the most exciting and interesting, covering a period from the late sixties to the year 1980, the year of the assassination of Walter Rodney.

Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill, accompanied by representatives from the Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC), visited the residents of Ogle Airport Road, and neighbouring villages to discuss upcoming infrastructural developments, a Ministry of Public Works (MoPW) release yesterday stated.

Police conducted a raid between 00:00 and 03:40 hrs yesterday at the Red Dragon Night Club located at Robb Street, Bourda, Georgetown.

Forty-three-year-old Sherwin De Young and his family, of Mainstay in Region Two yesterday accepted the keys to a brand-new two-bedroom home from the executive members of Men on Mission (MOM). 

The police say they are investigating a shooting incident which occurred at about 5.45  this morning at Lot 23 D’Urban Street, Lodge, Georgetown, which resulted in the death of Anthony Havercome, a 40-year-old vendor from South Ruimveldt, who was shot multiple times.

Inmate  Bevon Griffith was  shot yesterday by Prison Officers after he attempted to scale the Camp Street prison fence.

Already discomforted at the idea of a waste treatment plant in their community, residents of Coverden, East Bank Demerara are dismayed that the operator of the agreement has been changed to a company whose expertise they are unsure of and have been protesting and raising concerns.

The 26-year-old United States fugitive who was hiding here for five years and was last week arrested at a horse racing event in Berbice and extradited, appeared in a New York court yesterday charged over the hit-and-run accident that claimed the life of a 67-year-old Jamaican-American man.

A 40-year-old mother of two children has been experiencing a problem for two months now where the sewage from the house has been backing up, overflowing in the yard and producing a repugnant smell which is permeating the house, creating severe discomfort for her family.

A woman, whose adult son was charged last month over the publishing of obscene photographs and videos of his ex-girlfriend, made her appearance in court yesterday, charged with obstruction of justice.

Joshua O’Neil, who was accused of murdering Marlon Peters on May 9, 2020, was on July 30, 2024 sentenced to 20 years imprisonment following a guilty plea before Judge Sherdel Isaacs Marcus at the High Court.

Police are investigating a fatal accident which occurred on Thursday between 17:15 hrs and 19:30 hrs in the North Pakaraimas, involving an unregistered ATV owned and ridden by  Brazilian Ricardo Kennedy, a 32-year-old businessman of Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil.

A Canje security guard is now dead after falling from his motorcycle on the Palmyra Public Road on Monday.

After more than five years of boat operators and communities continuously lamenting the dilapidated state of the Charity Wharf, a project to rebuild it seems closer as eight companies this week submitted bids for its construction.

The trade relationship between the UK and Guyana has surged to £1.9 billion, reflecting a 17.7% increase and making Guyana the UK’s largest trading partner in the Caribbean, responsible for 33% of the region’s trade.

The firefighting capabilities of the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) recently received a significant boost with the graduation of 97 new firefighters from its training centre located at Leonora, Region Three, following a rigorous three-month training course, a release from the Department of Public Information (DPI) announced yesterday.