Delon Chapman, one of the two ex-police constables recently sentenced to 25 years in prison for raping a woman who had gone to the Turkeyen Police Station to make a report, is appealing both his conviction and sentence.
Bids were on Tuesday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the remodeling of the Maritime Administration Department’s Secretariat office building.
Chaos erupted at Stabroek Market in Georgetown on Wednesday after a 16-year-old boy, accused of being a bandit, was fatally shot by a plainclothes policeman.
Well-known doctor Colin Roach was on Tuesday night discovered dead at his Kingston, Georgetown clinic and investigators probing his murder have since arrested three persons, including two of his employees, for questioning.
One of the four suspects in the killing of Parika, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) resident Trevor Allen on Sunday night is now dead after taking his own life.
An additional 5,000 households are due to benefit from the government’s grant of an electricity credit to households that consume 75 kilowatts per hour (kWh) or less per month.
With an average of 124,000 barrels of oil now being pumped daily offshore Guyana nearly two years since oil production started, there is still no agreement on oil spill insurance and government appears to have backpedal-ed from pressing for unlimited liability coverage to now setting for only about US$2 billion.
Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon has voiced support for the calls for the establishment of an independent panel to select a new Chief Election Officer (CEO) for the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) even as he opined that some of the identified applicants are a “no-no.”
While standing by his criticisms over the failure of judges to write decisions within the required time, Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC has acknowledged the challenge posed by their limited numbers and assured that government is moving apace to address the issue.
In recent weeks, President Irfaan Ali has held a number of bilateral engagements with world leaders and organisations on the sidelines of the various international meetings he attended.
A young woman who was caught while attempting to smuggle cannabis into the Lusignan Prison in a bag of soaps was on Tuesday fined and ordered to do community service.
A man who police say pointed a gun at a constable outside of a Burger King restaurant has been freed of the charge after the prosecution took too much time to locate the case file.
Two men are now due to face charges after they posed as Guyana Power and Light (GPL) workers and attempted to rob a housewife at Covent Garden, on the East Bank of Demerara on Monday.