Guyana News

A week after President Irfaan Ali announced plans for wages and salary hikes for public servants, The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has criticised his failure to commit to legally required negotiations with the body.

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) on Monday compensated 25 farmers of Cummings Lodge, after their lands were destroyed during the clearing of lands for housing development Minister within the Ministry of Housing and Water Susan Rodrigues said the payout of the compensation packages is part of the governments’ efforts to show that a resolution could be found after conflict developed.

A Region Two businessman has been arrested by Essequibo police for allegedly hitting down a man along the Affiance Public Road and then fleeing the scene.

A pedestrian died on Monday night after he was struck down along the Better Hope, East Coast Demerara (ECD) Public Road.

Collis Whyte, the minibus driver who was jailed for chasing a policeman with a cutlass, was on Monday fined $185,000 by a city magistrate after being found guilty of several traffic offences and breaching the COVID restrictions.

A man was on Friday charged by the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) with selling petroleum and petroleum products while not being authorised to do so.

Two weeks after Laurel Samaroo was found dead in a fuel truck, the police are seeking the assistance of the public in their search for a Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) man, who is accused of committing the crime.

A 22-year-old woman is now in police custody pending a charge after claiming that she was robbed of $450,000 in an attack at the Best Bet Superbet at Patentia, West Bank Demerara.

Members of the New Amsterdam Prison Task Force on Monday uncovered a quantity of ganja on an inmate.

A motorcyclist last week suffered a broken leg after he was involved in an accident at Rupert Craig Highway and Conversation Tree.

President Irfaan Ali on Monday praised outgoing CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque for his stewardship and strength of character, saying that the region benefitted during his tenure.

Danion Welcome, the driver of the truck that crushed a seven-year-old to death along the Agricola Public Road just over two years ago, was on Tuesday freed of the charge of causing her death by dangerous driving.

A businessman is now dead after he and another man came under heavy gunfire tonight along Regent Street, in Georgetown.

The Ministry of Health today said that as of August 09, 2021, three more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Malisha Dutchin, who is accused of being the mastermind behind the murder of overseas-based Guyanese Hemraj Pardesi, was today charged with the crime alongside an alleged accomplice, even as police continued a hunt for a third accused.

Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Sergeant Keyon King and two security guards have been remanded to prison over last week’s $58 million Wallison Enterprise gold heist at Kitty.

Three suspects, including a Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Sergeant, who were arrested in connection with the Wallison Enterprise multi-million dollar gold heist at Kitty, are expected to be charged today by police, who say the men have confessed.

A statutory meeting of the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) was on Monday aborted after a standoff between some city councillors and recently appointed Interim Town Clerk Candace Nelson, who was served with notice of a legal challenge to her appointment.

President Irfaan Ali has ordered that freight charges be reduced to pre-pandemic levels in order to lower taxes on imports, thereby relieving consumers of the burden of rising prices on commodities that have been passed on due to higher shipping costs.

Two persons were yesterday charged with four counts of forgery stemming from a nearly $30 million wire transfer fraud that targeted the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI).