Guyana News

Guyana and Brazil have launched a joint probe into the alleged smuggling and trafficking of underage girls.

The tourism and hospitality sector in Region Six is set to receive another boost with the Guyana Office for Investment’s (G-Invest) signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the construction of a modern hotel and convention centre.

By Shuntel Glasgow Hundreds gathered at the Guyana National Stadium yesterday  for the opening of International Building Expo 2024 and President Irfaan Ali declared that the planned Silica City will be a “masterpiece”.

Attorney, Richard Layne, 35, was on Thursday night found dead in a locked car outside his D’Urban Backlands residence and CCTV footage will be  pivotal in elucidating what happened as there are gaps in the varying accounts. 

Eleven-year-old Chitwrattie Rohan (Fareena) was allegedly choked to death by her 12-year-old relative while engaging in a ‘play fight’ yesterday morning at her grandfather’s Martyrs’ Ville home on the East Coast of Demerara.

Police have arrested four persons and seized three Glock pistols as they investigate an alleged shooting incident on Samora Haddaway, a 41-year-old driver from Timehri, which occurred at about 11 pm on August 06th, 2024, at Garnett and Middleton streets, Georgetown.

One hundred and eighty-six recruits, including 55 females, have earned their rites of passage into the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) following the successful completion of the Basic Recruit Specialisation Course 2024-01 (BRSC 2024-01).

-maintenance cost high Social media netizens have reported that the dental boat, Lady Janet, is currently down, and a post by  Andrieko Basir shows the boat in a state of deterioration and sinking.

-retroactive to September 1st , 2023 A day after a court ruled that a 30% excise tax on remigrants’ vehicles over 3000 cc was unlawful, the state legitimized the tariff by gazetting new regulations and making them retroactive to September 1st, 2023.

Cuban engineers who arrived here in May to assist the sugar industry will be here for 12 months based on performance and the government says attempts to recruit the skills locally failed.

Three men were arrested on Wednesday in Corentyne, Berbice, as part of Police investigations into the theft of two bulls valued at $240,000 belonging to Ganisey Parsram, a 63-year-old from #64 Village.

-PNCR continuing to skip meetings The A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) yesterday issued a statement on rules for making decisions and frequency of  meetings and it also noted that its founding member, the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) has not been attending its gatherings..

A new police outpost is now in operation to provide better security at the Bourda Market in Georgetown after President Irfaan Ali engaged vendors at the shopping hub on Wednesday morning.

Mark Chester, a 29-year-old labourer of Queenstown, Essequibo Coast was charged on Wednesday with attempting to commit murder and later that day he was committed to stand trial in the High Court on the matter.

Haimraj Narine, a 22-year-old taxi driver from Aberdeen, Essequibo Coast, was charged yesterday with the rape of a child under 16 and committed to stand trial in the High Court.

Roy Anthony Callendar, a 64-year-old labourer of Grove Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara, was charged yesterday by ranks from the Grove Police Station with setting fire to a dwelling. 

Liu Wei, a 45-year-old resident from Eccles Industrial Site, East Bank Demerara, was arrested on 2024-08-05 by ranks from the Providence Police Station and charged on Wednesday  with the unlawful wounding of  47-year-old Bao Lin.

There is yet to be any official update by the Government of Guyana on efforts to lift the long-running ban on catfish exports to the US.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) have upped their longstanding partnership aimed at helping Guyana’s Ministry of Health eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) as a public health concern.

Anand Alphonso, called ‘Dolo’, a 43-year-old labourer of Lima Housing Scheme, Essequibo Coast was on Wednesday charged with possession of a forged currency note.