Guyana News

The Government of Guyana continues to press ahead with its focus on agriculture as evidenced by its handing over of an investment agreement with Demerara Dairy Inc (DDI) for the establishment of a $3 billion state-of-the-art dairy farm and milk processing facility.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) can expect to have its crime-fighting capabilities bolstered with the recent graduation of more than 50 ranks who on Monday, successfully completed the Criminal Investigation Department’s Induction course, a GPF release announced yesterday.

The police yesterday said that they intercepted three men on two motorbikes transporting 55.5 lbs of ganja and one was held after a chase.

At about 6:28  yesterday morning, Police conducted an intelligence-led operation on the Albion public road in front of the Albion Police Station, where they stopped and searched a Toyota Premio motorcar and found an unlicensed firearm and seven rounds of matching ammunition.

The PNCR yesterday said that it could not support the AFC’s call to reinstate the 2 am curfew as it is not convinced that the road accident crisis can be resolved by merely one measure.

The Guyana Government today called for independent verification of the will of the Venezuelan people following controversy over Sunday’s general elections which have seen both President Nicolas Maduro and the opposition claiming victory.

 (Reuters) – The Organization of American States’ (OAS) election observation department said today it cannot recognize the results by Venezuela’s national electoral council declaring President Nicolas Maduro the winner of Sunday’s disputed vote.

-prosecution, defence clash Minister of Local Govern-ment, Sonia Parag was the first witness to testify yesterday  in the long-awaited 2020 electoral fraud trial and as she attempted to explain what she observed as a PPP/C candidate the defence objected several times but most of these were overruled by presiding Magistrate Leron Daly.

Eon Fagundes, 46, of Lot 25 Sandy Babb Street, Kitty, Georgetown, was arrested on 24-07-2024 and charged yesterday with the offences of: 1) Possession of fire-arms without a licence; 2) Possession of ammunition without a licence.

Chief Justice Roxane George SC yesterday ruled that the imposition of a 30% excise tax on the vehicles of remigrants is unlawful and the inscribed 10% figure should be applied, according to the attorney for the applicant in the matter.

At about 7 pm last evening, Police arrested a 25-year-old suspect who allegedly strangled Miracarmen Rodrigues Serrano, a 26-year-old female sex worker from Santa Elena De Vaire, Venezuela, and Quartzstone Backdam, Cuyuni River.

A West Coast Berbice construction worker died after he was involved in an accident along the Number 28 Village Public Road in Region Five.

Tragedy struck on Sunday when 19-year-old Navin Ramnaught of #1 Village, Berbice, drowned while swimming at Splashmins Resort.

-floats four-lane bridge for river Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo last week said that a planned deepwater port will still be located in Region Six as he stressed that the Berbice River could have a four-lane bridge – an idea which is currently on the drawing board.

Belize’s opening of a High Commission here  underscores its  intent to enhance its bilateral ties with Guyana and strengthen its presence in South America, according to its envoy here.

Marlon Christopher Wilburg called `Miceman’, 29,  yesterday appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with the attempted murder of six-year-old Smith’s Memorial Primary School pupil, Jeremiah Gustave, on July 9th on Charles Street, Charlestown.

Renowned Guyanese Cricketer Sir Clive Lloyd, and Jamaican Regionalist and former CARICOM Secretary-General, Roderick Rainford, were both conferred with the Order of the Caribbean Community (OCC), the Region’s highest honour.

Addressing  the 44th Heads of Govern-ment’s meeting in Grenada on Sunday, the outgoing Chairman of CARICOM, Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali said that the region continues to be buffeted by climate change and other crises that did not originate with it.

President of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU), Mark Lyte has denied all suggestions about an acceptance of a 7% agreement offered by the Government to the GTU.

-GRA officers lodge weapons with police Three Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) officers yesterday lodged their firearms and had their hands swabbed for gunshot residue as the police launched an investigation into the shooting of a 36-year-old alleged chicken smuggler at Enmore seawall, East Coast Demerara on Saturday night.