Guyana News

The Guyana Police Force yesterday reported that a party of ranks on Friday destroyed a total of $115 million worth of marijuana discovered in the Berbice River.

Two men were detained by the police yesterday following the seizure of more than $600,000 in uncustomed alcoholic beverages in Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo).

The Guyana Fire Service (GFS) has refuted the claims of Corentyne fire victim Kulcharran Prashad that their tenders arrived without water when it responded to the fire that destroyed his home last Thursday.

Aliyah Thom, the Eccles, East Bank Demerara girl who went missing on Thursday afternoon, has been found.

Yesterday between 05:20 hrs & 18:07 hrs, an intelligence-led operation was carried out by  ranks from Police Headquarters and from Regional Division #10, at Zion, Berbice River and $115m in ganja was destroyed.

ExxonMobil’s second platform in the offshore Stabroek Block yesterday began producing oil with the expectation of reaching full capacity of 220,000 barrels per day by the end of the year and intense scrutiny of its gas flaring.

A New and United Guyana (ANUG) today called for the removal of Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Nigel Dharamlall over his ‘dildo’ remark in Parliament last week.

A teen died on Thursday after he lost control of the motorcycle he was riding and crashed into a parked vehicle along Craig Street, Campbellville, George-town.

The National COVID-19 Task Force on Friday announced the immediate lifting of the national curfew.

Sedley Liverpool, called ‘Birdman,’ the other person who had been accused of the 2015 murder of Mocha mechanic Terrence Lanferman, was yesterday discharged of the capital offence after a no-case submission was upheld in his favour.

Despite the main opposition’s appeal to Speaker Manzoor Nadir for a reconsideration, the suspension of APNU+AFC Member of Parliament (MP) Sherod Duncan was on Thursday formalized by the National Assembly.

Government’s decision to terminate negotiations with the China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) raises serious issues of due process, contract evaluation and probity by the administration, the Alliance for Change (AFC) yesterday said.

The Government of Guyana yesterday inform-ed Nautilus Register “ClassNR”, a subsidiary of Aryavart Corporation, that it is to cease all representation of Guyana and its Maritime Administration (MARAD) citing termination of a memorandum of understanding (MoU)  due to breach of contractual negotiations.

A 25-year-old is one of Guyana’s two new COVID-19 deaths. According to the Ministry of Health, the country’s latest deaths have increased the total number of deaths from COVID-19 here to 1,190.

With a national population census due this year, Senior Minister within the Office of the President with responsibility for Finance, Dr Ashni Singh, on Thursday assured that it will proceed and that funds have been budgeted for the process.

Fourteen persons have been displaced after a fire, suspected to have been electrical in origin, destroyed their Corentyne house on Thursday.

A Middle Road, La Penitence youth was on Friday sentenced to nine months in jail after he confessed to stealing a cellphone and money from a fellow worshipper at a Masjid.

A former police constable was on Friday asked to post $75,000 in bail for his release after he was charged with shooting a then colleague in the leg with his service weapon during a row over a missing pair of slippers.

Two young men are now remanded prisoners after being charged over a choke and rob attack on a businessman.

Following complaints, the Guyana Revenue Authority Commissioner Godffrey Statia yesterday confirmed that the tax body has granted permission for sex toys to be imported for personal use.