Guyana News

President Irfaan Ali yesterday appointed Deputy Commissioner of Police, Clifton Hicken to act as the country’s Commissioner of Police as Nigel Hoppie who was holding the position in an acting capacity heads into pre-retirement leave.

A number of civil society activists have written to Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley  urging that she take the lead in convening CARICOM leaders and experts in determining the risks posed to the Caribbean by what they described as the “reckless pace” of oil exploration in Guyana’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).

A murder accused was stabbed to death during an altercation over ‘bed space’ at the Georgetown Prison yesterday afternoon.

Kurt Erskine, who was involved in the plot to rob Regent Multiplex Mall owner, Ganesh Ramlall, who was killed when bandits pounced on him, was yesterday afternoon sentenced to 25 years, but after deductions, will be spending just about 16 behind bars.

Former Guyanese tennis coach Esan Benn was stabbed to death in New York yesterday morning.

Trinidadian manufacturers yesterday lamented that non-tariff barriers were  hampering imports of agricultural produce from Guyana and called on the political directorate to clear the hurdles.

Following a recent visit to Trinidad and Tobago where he met with its business community, Guyana’s Foreign Secretary, Robert Persaud says that Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo’s assessment of that country’s economy’s heavy dependency on the oil and gas sector is “realistic” and that the two private sector heads disputing this are being disingenuous.

Prime Minister Mark Phillips on Saturday assured residents of Lethem that their power rates won’t rise despite spiraling fuel prices but he urged them to pay their bills as many are delinquent.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) plans to take action against persons who are sub-letting stalls in the various markets around George-town.

The University of Guyana yesterday introduced a  Master’s Degree in Strategic Development Studies and this was lauded by President Irfaan Ali.

The doctor and retired Guyana Defence Force (GDF) officer who were arrested in relation to the theft of supplies from the Ministry of Health’s drugs bond at Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD) have been released from police custody.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) will deploy 50 ranks from various units to Exercise Tradewinds (ETW) 2022, which will be held in Belize from May 7-21, 2022.

Prominent New Amsterdam businessman, Tula Udit popularly known as ‘Haribol’ passed away overseas yesterday at the age of 58 after a period of illness, Stabroek News was told.

A man was yesterday sentenced to 50 months imprisonment and fined $215.1M after he pleaded guilty to possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking while his two accomplices were placed on $2M bail each after they denied the said charge.

Thirty-eight mothers are now equipped with cosmetology skills to find employment or become entrepreneurs in the field.

A man was yesterday  remanded to prison after being charged with stealing a TV, amplifiers and other appliances from the Trinity Methodist Church.

The Ministry of Health yesterday reported one new COVID-19 case from a batch of 298 tests that were done.

  Deputy Commissioner of Police, Clifton Hicken has been appointed to act as the country’s Commissioner of Police as office holder Nigel Hoppie heads into pre-retirement leave.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday launched a major Black Belly Sheep Project in Region Five, West Coast Berbice which has 78 farmers on board already with an additional 1,000 black belly sheep expected to arrive from Barbados in the coming weeks.

Declaring that the people of the country were not getting enough from the country’s oil revenues, PNCR Leader Aubrey Norton on Saturday said that the party must embrace the policy of wealth creation and he pledged the development of a meritocracy in the public service.