Guyana News

Tyrese David, a 22-year-old construction worker of Lot 105 Covent Garden, East Bank Demerara, was arrested on 2024-06-07 and charged on 2024-06-11 with the offence of possession of a firearm without a licence.

Guyana’s longest serving Sergeant-of-Arms of Parliament (in Guyana referred to as the Mace Bearer), Kenneth Carnegie King MS, was on Monday laid to rest with glowing tributes coming from both government and the opposition, thanking him for the  service he provided to this nation.

Construction has commenced on the much-heralded Silica City located along the Soesdyke-Linden Highway and according to a release yesterday from the Department of Public Information (DPI), 74 of the 110 contracted young professional houses are in the foundational stage.

Dental services provider Cobeer Persaud has sued Eccles heavy machinery business, Phoenix Welding and Fabricating Inc over alleged damage and noise caused by heavy vibrations.

A Ministry of Housing and Water release yesterday stated that six families from the communities of Haslington, Non Pariel, Lusignan, Good Hope and Cummings Lodge, received the keys to their new ‘Core Homes’ and Certificates of Inspection under the Adequate Housing and Urban Accessibility Programme (AHUAP).

-Canal No. 1 pump station to be completed by the end of July Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha has disclosed that the design for the massive Hope-like Canal to be constructed in Region Three will be completed soon.

A Berbice businesswoman and a construction worker were on Monday remanded to prison after they were charged with being in possession of an illegal firearm.

On Tuesday, Police from Regional Division 4C, acting on information received, went to an area in the Victoria Backlands, East Coast Demerara, about three miles from the Victoria access road, where they saw two plots of land measuring about two acres being prepared by a 33-year-old resident of the village.

Nabadaningi Gobin, a 40-year-old labourer of Lot 161 Charlotte Street, Georgetown, was arrested on 2024-04-07 and charged on 2024-06-11 with the Offence of Possession of Narcotics for the Purpose of Trafficking.

Brian Stevens, a 22-year-old labourer from Haslington, East Coast Demerara; Claudius James, a 20-year-old security officer of South Ruimveldt Squatting Area, Georgetown and Ronaldo Allicock, a 21-year-old labourer of Providence, East Bank Demerara; were arrested on 2024-06-09 and charged jointly on 2024-06-11 by ranks of Providence Police Station Criminal Investigation Department with armed robbery.

Haisai Jones is wanted by the police in connection with three counts of the rape of a child below the age of 16.

  -says Guyana cheated of US$50m in gold taxes The United States Department of The Treasury yesterday imposed sanctions on businessmen Nazar Mohamed and son, Azruddin Mohamed over the alleged massive smuggling of gold and Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Labour, Mae Toussaint Jr Thomas, was cited for alleged corruption leading to her being immediately sent on leave by the government here.

By Mia Anthony Thirty-seven-year-old Edinho Lewis, of Lot 25 Shopping Plaza, South Ruimveldt Gardens, appeared before Chief Magistrate (ag) Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court where he was charged with five offences including possession of an AK-47 rifle.

Yesterday, Judge Nawaf Salam, President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), convened a meeting with the agents of Guyana and Venezuela regarding the Arbitral Award of 3 October 1899 (Guyana v.

-US to help with maintenance of coast guard vessels President Irfaan Ali said that the GDFS Shahoud, which was commissioned yesterday, will bolster surveillance of Guyana’s waters and offer security for the country’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).

A Palmyra Village man was yesterday found floating in a trench located not far from his home.

The police constable whose minibus burst into flames after he lost control of it and collided with a utility pole on the Wellington Public Road, West Coast Berbice, on May 27 died last Friday at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

As part of the Government of Guyana’s efforts to boost production in the agriculture sector, it has announced that the Ministry of Agriculture, (MoA) will soon commence rehabilitation work on a critical farm-to-market access road in Buxton Village on the East Coast of Demerara, a MoA release stated yesterday.

The Local Government Commission on Monday advertised the position of Overseer for the Port Mourant/John’s Neighbourhood Democratic Council after the Opposition last week blazed it for the appointment of the current overseer who it said was handpicked by a senior government official.