Guyana News

-local business owners say in letter to President A group of over 60 business owners across the country have written to President Irfaan Ali, complaining about the proliferation of non-naturalised Chinese-owned businesses that engage in unfair competition and their seeming  of lack of regulatory certificates and licences.

Attorney General, Anil Nandlall SC, says that he does not believe that the United States’ sanctions on the Mohameds and Permanent Secretary Mae Toussaint Jr.

By Abigail Headley Amid widespread concerns about illicit gold dealings, a meeting was hosted yesterday by the Ministry of Natural Resources with jewellers and qualms about  security were raised.

Keron David,  a 27-year-old gold miner of Falls Top, North West District (NWD) in Region One, was charged yesterday with the murder of 22-year-old Royston Frank, which occurred between the 6th and 7th of November, 2021 at Big Creek Landing, NWD.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has advised that the security guard involved in the shooting at Shaf Auto Sales, Lusignan, East Coast Demerara, that resulted in the  death of 18-year-old Jared Jagnandan on March 21, be charged with manslaughter at the earliest opportunity, Crime Chief, Wendell Blanhum stated yesterday.

The police in Berbice are investigating the murder of a Stanleytown man who was found with multiple injuries on Monday morning along the East Bank Berbice public road.

The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) joined hands with the United Nations (UN) to launch the “Countering Hate Speech Campaign” at the National Library yesterday.

The government through the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) is evaluating a project it says is aimed at developing a sustainable, integrated national drainage and irrigation system in Guyana.

Thirty-nine-year-old construction labourer, Terrence Wills, of Lot 217 Main Road, La Penitence, Georgetown, appeared before Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus at the Georgetown Magis-trate’s Court yesterday where he was charged with two counts of armed robbery.

The police on Monday discovered the heavily decomposed body of a Cumber-land man, who was last seen alive five days ago, at Fort Ordnance Scheme, East Canje Berbice.

Elijah Adams, a 21-year-old labourer from Annandale, East Coast Demerara, was arrested by Police on 2023-07-16 and charged yesterday with the rape of a child under 16 years.

Nineteen-year-old Colwyn Nurse of Tucville Terrace, Georgetown, appeared before Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday where he was charged with armed robbery.

Minister of Labour, Joseph Hamilton has reiterated the importance of prioritising widespread, continuous training in Guyana to address the shortage of skilled labour in Guyana.

While police investigations continue into the shooting incident at Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara, on Saturday night, the six-year-old girl who was wounded in the head remains in critical condition in the intensive care unit at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Mario Singh, the 37-year-old construction worker who admitted to stealing from the Good News Fellowship Full Gospel Church in Bartica, was yesterday sentenced to nine months in jail.

Jamaine Josiah, a 28-year-old construction worker of Eccles, East Bank Demerara, was arrested by a rank from the Providence Police Station on 2024/06/14 allegedly with 907.2 grams of marijuana and charged yesterday with possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking. 

Wade Morrison, a 41-year-old construction worker of Haslington New Scheme, East Coast Demerara, was yesterday remanded to prison after appearing in court to answer to the charge of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.

Troy Sertimer, a 50-year-old clothes vendor of Lot 35 Middle Walk, Anns Grove, East Coast Demerara, was charged yesterday when he appeared in court and was fined $30,000 after pleading guilty to the offence of possession of narcotics.

-pose grave risks to country US sanctions against the Mohameds and Mae Toussaint Jr.

Police are investigating a fatal accident which occurred at about 5.30 am yesterday on the public road at Diamond, East Bank Demerara, involving motor car #PZZ 4447.