Guyana News

Four suspects including a mother and her teenaged daughter will today be charged with the murder of Keith Hohenkirk, the shopkeeper who was found bound and gagged in his Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) home on Sunday.

Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the state-owned National Communications Network (NCN), Michella Abraham-Ali has been replaced by her deputy Neaz Subhan.

A city magistrate yesterday upheld a no-case submission by the defence and dismissed the charges instituted against two police constables over the deleting of the Guyana Police Force’s (GPF) financial data.

A cyclist succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday after he was struck by a mini-bus along the Strangroen Public Road at Mahaica, East Coast Demerara (ECD).

A ‘track my case’ system is to be implemented at every police station/outpost across the country and a new boat house will be established in Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) as the Guyana Police Force (GPF) aims to achieve a “modern, professional and accountable” organization.

A Corentyne man was on Tuesday sentenced to four years in prison after he pleaded guilty to committing arson, leaving his brother, sister, her husband and three children homeless.

An alleged cattle rustler was on Tuesday arrested in the Mibicuri Black Bush Polder pump station area, after police were informed that the suspect along with two others had pounced on a cattle ranch in Kokerite savannah on Monday evening stealing a cow and leaving a watchman with injuries.

Andre Gomes also known as ‘Zipper’ was arrested on Tuesday night following the discovery of two kilogrammes of cocaine at his Campbellville home.

The case file on the bribery allegation against the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs’ Permanent Secretary Sharon Hicks is still with the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

With a clerk now identified to provide services, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is to resume its work on Monday but a meeting called for yesterday by the Speaker of Parliament, Manzoor Nadir  to resolve related matters had to be postponed because of the unavailability of Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Gail Teixeira.

In the lead up to the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) and with 2021 marking the start of the United Nations Decade of Ecosystem Restoration, US Ambassador Sarah-Ann Lynch visited the Guyana Mangrove Restoration Project, a programme under the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute.

The widow of Fazal Shaheed yesterday tearfully recalled his final words to her that he was “not going to make it” after being shot by bandits who had invaded the Lot 194 Freeman Street premises where relatives were preparing for a memorial service.

As a prelude to Guyana’s participation in the COP26 summit next week in Scotland, President Irfaan Ali will today unveil a new and “expanded” version of the PPP/C’s premier climate change initiative – the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS).

A man was yesterday sentenced to one month in jail for damaging the windows of another man’s home after he claimed a “jumbie” made him do it.

With the Ministry of Education in its final stages of verifying queries for this year’s Caribbean Secondary Examination Certificate (CSEC) results and announcement, Education Minister Priya Manickchand says that the announcement is likely before the end of this week.

Prime Minister Mark Phillips yesterday inaugurated a $6.3m solar power system at the offices of the OAS and IICA on Brickdam.

A Freeman Street, East La Penitence man was yesterday remanded to prison on a charge that he used a gun to rob two former co-workers of a cellphone and a gold chain.

One more COVID-19 death yesterday took the country’s total fatalities as a result of the virus to 900.

A cook was yesterday fined after she admitted to behaving disorderly while she was placed on bail for other charges of assaulting a peace officer, indecent exposure and using threatening behaviour.

The Linden Mayor and Town Council is working to rectify its solid waste issues and officials say that poor management and limited funding are at the root of the problem.